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17 Bahman 1456
Saturday 17 Bahman 1456 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 5 February 2078, and 21 Rabi' al-Awwal 1501 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
- Persian17 Bahman 1456
- Gregorian5 February 2078
- Islamic21 Rabi' al-Awwal 1501
- Imperial17 Bahman 2636
- Day of the year323 of 365
- Left in the year42 days
- ZodiacAquarius
- YearHen
Occasions on 17 Bahman 1456
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On this day: February 5
Events
- 2 BC Caesar Augustus is granted the title pater patriae by the Roman Senate.
- 1852 (174 years ago) The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 1859 (167 years ago) Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.
- 1869 (157 years ago) The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 1919 (107 years ago) Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
- 1962 (64 years ago) French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
- 2020 (6 years ago) United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
Births
- 1788 (238 years ago) Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1850)
- 1914 (112 years ago) William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1997)
- 1915 (111 years ago) Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
- 1946 (80 years ago) Charlotte Rampling, English actress
- 1976 (50 years ago) Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
- 1984 (42 years ago) Carlos Tevez, Argentinian footballer
- 1985 (41 years ago) Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
- 1992 (34 years ago) Neymar, Brazilian footballer
Deaths
- 1881 (145 years ago) Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (born 1795)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (born 1861)
- 1993 (33 years ago) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
- 1999 (27 years ago) Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Kirk Douglas, American actor (born 1916)
- 2021 (5 years ago) Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (born 1929)
- 2023 (3 years ago) Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani military officer and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (born 1943)