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23 Shahrivar 1424

Wednesday 23 Shahrivar 1424 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 13 September 2045, and 1 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1467 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

1229 (797 years ago) Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1500 (526 years ago) Pedro Álvares Cabral and his Portuguese fleet arrive in Calicut, having crossed both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
1788 (238 years ago) The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1964 (62 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
1971 (55 years ago) Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1997 (29 years ago) A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.
2013 (13 years ago) Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

1819 (207 years ago) Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (died 1896)
1874 (152 years ago) Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (died 1951)
1903 (123 years ago) Claudette Colbert, American actress (died 1996)
1916 (110 years ago) Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (died 1990)
1940 (86 years ago) Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 (75 years ago) Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudanese politician, 1st President of South Sudan
1973 (53 years ago) Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer and manager
1989 (37 years ago) Thomas Müller, German footballer

81 (1945 years ago) Titus, Roman emperor (born AD 39)
1506 (520 years ago) Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1431)
1592 (434 years ago) Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (born 1533)
1598 (428 years ago) Philip II of Spain, King of Spain, Portugal, England and Ireland (born 1526)
1872 (154 years ago) Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (born 1804)
1949 (77 years ago) August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
1996 (30 years ago) Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1971)
2022 (4 years ago) Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (born 1930)