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7 Ordibehesht 1423

Tuesday 7 Ordibehesht 1423 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 26 April 2044, and 27 Jumada al-Awwal 1466 in the Islamic calendar.

This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.

This day in four calendars

1564 (462 years ago) Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1944 (82 years ago) Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1962 (64 years ago) NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 (63 years ago) In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allow for female participation in elections.
1964 (62 years ago) Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1966 (60 years ago) A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1994 (32 years ago) South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
2005 (21 years ago) Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

121 (1905 years ago) Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (died 180)
1798 (228 years ago) Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (died 1863)
1889 (137 years ago) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1951)
1894 (132 years ago) Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987)
1898 (128 years ago) Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
1917 (109 years ago) I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (died 2019)
1963 (63 years ago) Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
1970 (56 years ago) Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States

680 (1346 years ago) Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (born 602)
757 (1269 years ago) Pope Stephen II,
1910 (116 years ago) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832)
1920 (106 years ago) Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (born 1887)
1940 (86 years ago) Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
1951 (75 years ago) Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (born 1868)
1989 (37 years ago) Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (born 1911)
2003 (23 years ago) Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (born 1984)