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23 Aban 1459

Wednesday 23 Aban 1459 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 13 November 2080, and 1 Safar 1504 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

1642 (384 years ago) First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1947 (79 years ago) The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1970 (56 years ago) Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (150 mph) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
1994 (32 years ago) In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
1995 (31 years ago) Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
2000 (26 years ago) Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2002 (24 years ago) Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2015 (11 years ago) Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.

354 (1672 years ago) Augustine of Hippo, Roman bishop and theologian (died 430)
1312 (714 years ago) Edward III of England,
1850 (176 years ago) Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (died 1894)
1934 (92 years ago) Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (died 2016)
1953 (73 years ago) Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former President of Mexico
1955 (71 years ago) Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host
1969 (57 years ago) Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
1969 (57 years ago) Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somalian-American activist and author

867 (1159 years ago) Pope Nicholas I,
1460 (566 years ago) Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394)
1862 (164 years ago) Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (born 1787)
1868 (158 years ago) Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (born 1792)
1903 (123 years ago) Camille Pissarro, Virgin Islander-French painter (born 1830)
1969 (57 years ago) Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (born 1899)
1974 (52 years ago) Vittorio De Sica, Italian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1901)
2014 (12 years ago) Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (born 1928)