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18 Bahman 1467

Sunday 18 Bahman 1467 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 6 February 2089, and 24 Rajab 1512 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

1778 (248 years ago) New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1788 (238 years ago) Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Great Raids Against Helsinki begins.
1952 (74 years ago) Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1959 (67 years ago) At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1981 (45 years ago) The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1996 (30 years ago) Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
2023 (3 years ago) Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.

1665 (361 years ago) Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1714)
1756 (270 years ago) Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (died 1836)
1778 (248 years ago) Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (died 1827)
1895 (131 years ago) Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (died 1948)
1911 (115 years ago) Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (died 2004)
1912 (114 years ago) Eva Braun, German photographer, mistress and briefly wife of Adolf Hitler (died 1945)
1932 (94 years ago) François Truffaut, French filmmaker and critic (died 1984)
1945 (81 years ago) Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and cultural icon (died 1981)

1685 (341 years ago) Charles II of England,
1740 (286 years ago) Pope Clement XII,
1793 (233 years ago) Carlo Goldoni, Italian-French playwright (born 1707)
1804 (222 years ago) Joseph Priestley, English chemist and theologian (born 1733)
1918 (108 years ago) Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and illustrator (born 1862)
1952 (74 years ago) George VI of the United Kingdom,
2022 (4 years ago) Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer and music composer (born 1929)
2024 (2 years ago) Sebastian Piñera, former Chilean president (born 1949)