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23 Bahman 1464
Monday 23 Bahman 1464 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 11 February 2086, and 26 Jumada al-Thani 1509 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 Bahman 1464
- Gregorian11 February 2086
- Islamic26 Jumada al-Thani 1509
- Imperial23 Bahman 2644
- Day of the year329 of 365
- Left in the year36 days
- ZodiacAquarius
- YearSnake
Occasions on 23 Bahman 1464
- religious
- international
- international
- countries
On this day: February 11
Events
- 1144 (882 years ago) Robert of Chester completes his translation from Arabic to Latin of the Liber de compositione alchemiae, marking the birth of Western alchemy.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
- 1946 (80 years ago) The New Testament of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first significant challenge to the Authorized King James Version, is published.
- 1990 (36 years ago) Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
- 2014 (12 years ago) A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
- 2015 (11 years ago) A university student is murdered as she resists an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
- 2017 (9 years ago) North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
- 2018 (8 years ago) Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with 71 deaths and no survivors.
Births
- 1535 (491 years ago) Pope Gregory XIV,
- 1847 (179 years ago) Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph (died 1931)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese engineer and politician and Prime Minister of Japan
- 1964 (62 years ago) Sarah Palin, American politician, 9th Governor of Alaska
- 1969 (57 years ago) Jennifer Aniston, American actress and producer
- 1986 (40 years ago) Gabriel Boric, Chilean politician, 36th President of Chile
- 1992 (34 years ago) Taylor Lautner, American actor
- 1997 (29 years ago) Rosé, New Zealand-South Korean singer and dancer
Deaths
- 641 (1385 years ago) Heraclius, Byzantine emperor (born 575)
- 731 (1295 years ago) Pope Gregory II,
- 1650 (376 years ago) René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1596)
- 1948 (78 years ago) Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1898)
- 1963 (63 years ago) Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (born 1932)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Frank Herbert, American journalist and author (born 1920)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1963)