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17 Bahman 1459

Wednesday 17 Bahman 1459 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 5 February 2081, and 25 Rabi' al-Thani 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

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.

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

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)