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22 Bahman 1478
Wednesday 22 Bahman 1478 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 10 February 2100, and 30 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1523 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.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian22 Bahman 1478
- Gregorian10 February 2100
- Islamic30 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1523
- Imperial22 Bahman 2658
- Day of the year328 of 366
- Left in the year38 days
- ZodiacAquarius
- YearSheep
Occasions on 22 Bahman 1478
- national holiday
- religious
- international
- international
On this day: February 10
Events
- 1920 (106 years ago) About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
- 1940 (86 years ago) The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
- 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
- 1954 (72 years ago) U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1972 (54 years ago) Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
- 2003 (23 years ago) France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
- 2016 (10 years ago) South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
- 2018 (8 years ago) Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.
Births
- 1890 (136 years ago) Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)
- 1902 (124 years ago) Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
- 1952 (74 years ago) Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
- 1967 (59 years ago) Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
- 1991 (35 years ago) Emma Roberts, American actress
- 1997 (29 years ago) Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
Deaths
- 1755 (271 years ago) Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689)
- 1829 (197 years ago) Pope Leo XII,
- 1837 (189 years ago) Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (born 1799)
- 1918 (108 years ago) Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1842)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
- 1939 (87 years ago) Pope Pius XI,
- 2005 (21 years ago) Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)
- 2014 (12 years ago) Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)