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1 Aban 1463
Sunday 1 Aban 1463 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 22 October 2084, and 21 Safar 1508 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
- Persian1 Aban 1463
- Gregorian22 October 2084
- Islamic21 Safar 1508
- Imperial1 Aban 2643
- Day of the year217 of 365
- Left in the year148 days
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Occasions on 1 Aban 1463
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On this day: October 22
Events
- 1724 (302 years ago) J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in Leipzig on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, based on the communion hymn of the same name.
- 1859 (167 years ago) Spain declares war on Morocco.
- 1879 (147 years ago) Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; the bulb lasted 131⁄2 hours before burning out.
- 1910 (116 years ago) Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
- 1964 (62 years ago) Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.
- 1997 (29 years ago) Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape.
- 2019 (7 years ago) Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.
Births
- 1811 (215 years ago) Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1886)
- 1844 (182 years ago) Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (died 1923)
- 1870 (156 years ago) Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
- 1919 (107 years ago) Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (died 1990)
- 1943 (83 years ago) Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
- 1949 (77 years ago) Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
- 1970 (56 years ago) Javier Milei, Argentine politician and economist, President of Argentina
Deaths
- 741 (1285 years ago) Charles Martel, Frankish political and military leader (born 688)
- 1883 (143 years ago) Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish British novelist and soldier (born 1818)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)
- 1973 (53 years ago) Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (born 1876)
- 1979 (47 years ago) Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (born 1887)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1918)
- 1995 (31 years ago) Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (born 1922)