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23 Farvardin 1459

Thursday 23 Farvardin 1459 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 11 April 2080, and 20 Jumada al-Thani 1503 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

1957 (69 years ago) United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 (65 years ago) The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1979 (47 years ago) Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1987 (39 years ago) The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1990 (36 years ago) Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
2002 (24 years ago) The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2006 (20 years ago) Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
2012 (14 years ago) A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias.

145 (1881 years ago) Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (probable; died 211)
1770 (256 years ago) George Canning, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1827)
1825 (201 years ago) Ferdinand Lassalle, German philosopher and jurist (died 1864)
1953 (73 years ago) Andrew Wiles, English mathematician and academic
1953 (73 years ago) Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium
1981 (45 years ago) Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model[citation needed]
1991 (35 years ago) Thiago Alcântara, Spanish footballer
1996 (30 years ago) Dele Alli, English international footballer

678 (1348 years ago) Donus, pope of the Catholic Church (born 610)
1895 (131 years ago) Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (born 1830)
1977 (49 years ago) Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (born 1900)
1985 (41 years ago) Enver Hoxha, Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (born 1908)
1987 (39 years ago) Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (born 1919)
2007 (19 years ago) Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1922)
2012 (14 years ago) Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (born 1916)
2013 (13 years ago) Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (born 1925)