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23 Shahrivar 1483
Sunday 23 Shahrivar 1483 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 14 September 2104, and 24 Sha'ban 1528 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 Shahrivar 1483
- Gregorian14 September 2104
- Islamic24 Sha'ban 1528
- Imperial23 Shahrivar 2663
- Day of the year178 of 365
- Left in the year187 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearRat
Occasions on 23 Shahrivar 1483
- religious
- countries
On this day: September 14
Events
- 1682 (344 years ago) Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- 1723 (303 years ago) Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
- 1992 (34 years ago) The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 1999 (27 years ago) Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2003 (23 years ago) In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- 2019 (7 years ago) Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
Births
- 1580 (446 years ago) Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (died 1645)
- 1769 (257 years ago) Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (died 1859)
- 1791 (235 years ago) Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (died 1867)
- 1879 (147 years ago) Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (died 1966)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building
- 1947 (79 years ago) Sam Neill, New Zealand actor (died 2026)
- 1955 (71 years ago) Pope Leo XIV,
- 1983 (43 years ago) Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter, musician, and businesswoman (died 2011)
Deaths
- 407 (1619 years ago) John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop and saint (born 347)
- 1321 (705 years ago) Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (born 1265)
- 1851 (175 years ago) James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (born 1789)
- 1852 (174 years ago) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1769)
- 1901 (125 years ago) William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (born 1843)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1877)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (born 1850)
- 1982 (44 years ago) Grace Kelly, American-Monegasque actress; Princess of Monaco (born 1929)