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23 Tir 1457
Wednesday 23 Tir 1457 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 13 July 2078, and 3 Ramadan 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
- Persian23 Tir 1457
- Gregorian13 July 2078
- Islamic3 Ramadan 1501
- Imperial23 Tir 2637
- Day of the year116 of 366
- Left in the year250 days
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Occasions on 23 Tir 1457
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On this day: July 13
Events
- 1831 (195 years ago) Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law, is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
- 1878 (148 years ago) Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 (112 years ago) Felix Ysagun Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) as Iglesia ni Kristo with the government of the Philippines.
- 1977 (49 years ago) Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
- 1977 (49 years ago) Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil, New York City experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
- 1985 (41 years ago) The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
- 2003 (23 years ago) French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
- 2024 (2 years ago) Former president of the United States Donald Trump is injured in an assassination attempt while speaking at an election campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
Births
- 1590 (436 years ago) Pope Clement X,
- 1894 (132 years ago) Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (died 1940)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 2017)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 (86 years ago) Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer
- 1942 (84 years ago) Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
- 1950 (76 years ago) Ma Ying-jeou, Hong Kong-Taiwanese commander and politician, 12th President of the Republic of China
- 2007 (19 years ago) Lamine Yamal, Spanish footballer
Deaths
- 1793 (233 years ago) Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, scientist and theorist (born 1743)
- 1921 (105 years ago) Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
- 1951 (75 years ago) Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (born 1874)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (born 1907)
- 2014 (12 years ago) Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (born 1955)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Richard Simmons, American fitness personality and public figure (born 1948)
- 2025 (a year ago) Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian general and politician, 7th & 15th President of Nigeria (born 1942)