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11 Bahman 1486
Tuesday 11 Bahman 1486 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 31 January 2108, and 17 Safar 1532 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
- Persian11 Bahman 1486
- Gregorian31 January 2108
- Islamic17 Safar 1532
- Imperial11 Bahman 2666
- Day of the year317 of 366
- Left in the year49 days
- ZodiacAquarius
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Occasions on 11 Bahman 1486
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On this day: January 31
Events
- 1578 (448 years ago) Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
- 1971 (55 years ago) The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize alleged war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
- 1971 (55 years ago) Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
- 2001 (25 years ago) In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
- 2009 (17 years ago) At least 113 people are killed in Kenya and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
- 2020 (6 years ago) The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50, after 47 years of being a member state.
- 2022 (4 years ago) Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, publishes an initial version of her report on the Downing Street Partygate controversy.
Births
- 1543 (483 years ago) Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shōgun (died 1616)
- 1797 (229 years ago) Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1828)
- 1881 (145 years ago) Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (died 2007)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Beatrix of the Netherlands,
- 1975 (51 years ago) Preity Zinta, Indian actress, producer, and television host
- 1981 (45 years ago) Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
Deaths
- 1606 (420 years ago) Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (born 1570)
- 1888 (138 years ago) John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (born 1815)
- 1892 (134 years ago) Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (born 1834)
- 1933 (93 years ago) John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
- 1944 (82 years ago) Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (born 1882)
- 1956 (70 years ago) A. A. Milne, English author, poet and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (born 1882)
- 1973 (53 years ago) Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Richard von Weizsäcker, German captain and politician, 6th President of Germany (born 1920)