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23 Dey 1439
Wednesday 23 Dey 1439 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 12 January 2061, and 19 Sha'ban 1483 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
- Persian23 Dey 1439
- Gregorian12 January 2061
- Islamic19 Sha'ban 1483
- Imperial23 Dey 2619
- Day of the year299 of 365
- Left in the year66 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearWhale
Occasions on 23 Dey 1439
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On this day: January 12
Events
- 1616 (410 years ago) The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
- 1848 (178 years ago) The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1872 (154 years ago) Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- 1966 (60 years ago) Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
- 1971 (55 years ago) The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 2012 (14 years ago) Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
Births
- 1628 (398 years ago) Charles Perrault, French author and academic (died 1703)
- 1729 (297 years ago) Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, academic, and politician (died 1797)
- 1746 (280 years ago) Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss philosopher and educator (died 1827)
- 1863 (163 years ago) Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk and philosopher (died 1902)
- 1876 (150 years ago) Jack London, American novelist and journalist (died 1916)
- 1893 (133 years ago) Hermann Göring, German commander, pilot, and politician, Minister President of Prussia (died 1946)
- 1949 (77 years ago) Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist
- 1964 (62 years ago) Jeff Bezos, American computer scientist and businessman
Deaths
- 1519 (507 years ago) Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1459)
- 1665 (361 years ago) Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (born 1601)
- 1829 (197 years ago) Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1772)
- 1909 (117 years ago) Hermann Minkowski, Lithuanian-German mathematician and academic (born 1864)
- 1976 (50 years ago) Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1890)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (born 1926)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Sir Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (born 1944)
- 2023 (3 years ago) Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter (born 1968)