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30 Bahman 1473
Friday 30 Bahman 1473 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 18 February 2095, and 12 Shawwal 1518 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.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian30 Bahman 1473
- Gregorian18 February 2095
- Islamic12 Shawwal 1518
- Imperial30 Bahman 2653
- Day of the year336 of 365
- Left in the year29 days
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Occasions on 30 Bahman 1473
- cultural
- countries
On this day: February 18
Events
- 1229 (797 years ago) The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
- 1781 (245 years ago) Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
- 1873 (153 years ago) Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
- 1930 (96 years ago) While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
- 1957 (69 years ago) Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- 1965 (61 years ago) The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
Births
- 1516 (510 years ago) Mary I, Queen of England (died 1558)
- 1745 (281 years ago) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (died 1827)
- 1836 (190 years ago) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi (died 1886)
- 1838 (188 years ago) Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1916)
- 1931 (95 years ago) Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019).
- 1933 (93 years ago) Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician
- 1954 (72 years ago) John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer
- 1965 (61 years ago) Dr. Dre, American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
Deaths
- 999 (1027 years ago) Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 972)
- 1294 (732 years ago) Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (born 1215)
- 1455 (571 years ago) Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (born 1395)
- 1546 (480 years ago) Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (born 1483)
- 1564 (462 years ago) Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475)
- 1851 (175 years ago) Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (born 1804)
- 1967 (59 years ago) J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (born 1904)
- 2025 (a year ago) Gene Hackman, award-winning American actor (born 1930)