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23 Mehr 1444

Wednesday 23 Mehr 1444 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 14 October 2065, and 13 Rajab 1488 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.

Public holiday

This day in four calendars

1809 (217 years ago) The Treaty of Schönbrunn is signed, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition, the final successful war in Napoleon Bonaparte's military career.
1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1888 (138 years ago) Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1964 (62 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1966 (60 years ago) The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
1982 (44 years ago) U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.

1633 (393 years ago) James II of England,
1890 (136 years ago) Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)
1893 (133 years ago) Lillian Gish, American actress (died 1993)
1906 (120 years ago) Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (died 1975)
1927 (99 years ago) Roger Moore, English actor and producer (died 2017)
1930 (96 years ago) Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (died 1997)
1943 (83 years ago) Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran
1993 (33 years ago) Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist (died 2025)

1944 (82 years ago) Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (born 1891)
1959 (67 years ago) Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)
1977 (49 years ago) Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1903)
1984 (42 years ago) Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
1990 (36 years ago) Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)
1999 (27 years ago) Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)
2010 (16 years ago) Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)
2022 (4 years ago) Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)