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23 Mordad 1491

Sunday 23 Mordad 1491 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 14 August 2112, and 21 Shawwal 1536 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

1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1947 (79 years ago) Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan, due to the partition of India.
1971 (55 years ago) Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
2005 (21 years ago) Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
2006 (20 years ago) Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
2013 (13 years ago) Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
2021 (5 years ago) A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
2023 (3 years ago) Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.

1742 (284 years ago) Pope Pius VII,
1777 (249 years ago) Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (died 1851)
1867 (159 years ago) John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)
1945 (81 years ago) Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 (67 years ago) Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1966 (60 years ago) Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer
1983 (43 years ago) Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
1984 (42 years ago) Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer

1464 (562 years ago) Pope Pius II,
1941 (85 years ago) Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
1956 (70 years ago) Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)
1958 (68 years ago) Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
1988 (38 years ago) Enzo Ferrari, Italian racing driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (born 1898)
1994 (32 years ago) Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
2004 (22 years ago) Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
2024 (2 years ago) Gena Rowlands, American actress (born 1930)