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20 Bahman 1479

Wednesday 20 Bahman 1479 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 9 February 2101, and 10 Dhu al-Hijjah 1524 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.

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This day in four calendars

1822 (204 years ago) Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.
1922 (104 years ago) Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1932 (94 years ago) Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.
1934 (92 years ago) The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
1991 (35 years ago) Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
2018 (8 years ago) Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.

1737 (289 years ago) Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (died 1809)
1773 (253 years ago) William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (died 1841)
1830 (196 years ago) Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan and Caliph (died 1876)
1910 (116 years ago) Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
1940 (86 years ago) J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 (83 years ago) Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 (82 years ago) Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, and poet
1981 (45 years ago) Tom Hiddleston, English actor

1874 (152 years ago) Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (born 1798)
1881 (145 years ago) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (born 1821)
1957 (69 years ago) Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (born 1868)
1984 (42 years ago) Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (born 1914)
1989 (37 years ago) Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (born 1928)
2001 (25 years ago) Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
2002 (24 years ago) Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (born 1930)
2021 (5 years ago) Chick Corea, American jazz composer (born 1941)