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23 Bahman 1455

Thursday 23 Bahman 1455 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 11 February 2077, and 17 Rabi' al-Awwal 1500 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

1144 (882 years ago) Robert of Chester completes his translation from Arabic to Latin of the Liber de compositione alchemiae, marking the birth of Western alchemy.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
1946 (80 years ago) The New Testament of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first significant challenge to the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1990 (36 years ago) Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
2014 (12 years ago) A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
2015 (11 years ago) A university student is murdered as she resists an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
2017 (9 years ago) North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
2018 (8 years ago) Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with 71 deaths and no survivors.

1535 (491 years ago) Pope Gregory XIV,
1847 (179 years ago) Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph (died 1931)
1947 (79 years ago) Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese engineer and politician and Prime Minister of Japan
1964 (62 years ago) Sarah Palin, American politician, 9th Governor of Alaska
1969 (57 years ago) Jennifer Aniston, American actress and producer
1986 (40 years ago) Gabriel Boric, Chilean politician, 36th President of Chile
1992 (34 years ago) Taylor Lautner, American actor
1997 (29 years ago) Rosé, New Zealand-South Korean singer and dancer

641 (1385 years ago) Heraclius, Byzantine emperor (born 575)
731 (1295 years ago) Pope Gregory II,
1650 (376 years ago) René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1596)
1948 (78 years ago) Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1898)
1963 (63 years ago) Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (born 1932)
1978 (48 years ago) Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
1986 (40 years ago) Frank Herbert, American journalist and author (born 1920)
2012 (14 years ago) Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1963)