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20 Bahman 1487
Saturday 20 Bahman 1487 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 9 February 2109, and 8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1533 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
- Persian20 Bahman 1487
- Gregorian9 February 2109
- Islamic8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1533
- Imperial20 Bahman 2667
- Day of the year326 of 365
- Left in the year39 days
- ZodiacAquarius
- YearWhale
Occasions on 20 Bahman 1487
- religious holiday
On this day: February 9
Events
- 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.
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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)