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23 Aban 1493

Wednesday 23 Aban 1493 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 14 November 2114, and 16 Safar 1539 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

332 BC Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.
1920 (106 years ago) Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
1970 (56 years ago) Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
1971 (55 years ago) Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
1978 (48 years ago) France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
1990 (36 years ago) After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
2012 (14 years ago) Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to an escalation of rocket attacks by Hamas.

1840 (186 years ago) Claude Monet, French painter (died 1926)
1889 (137 years ago) Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (died 1964)
1907 (119 years ago) Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (died 2002)
1917 (109 years ago) Park Chung Hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (died 1979)
1922 (104 years ago) Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations (died 2016)
1948 (78 years ago) Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms
1954 (72 years ago) Condoleezza Rice, American political scientist, academic, and politician, 66th United States Secretary of State
1972 (54 years ago) Josh Duhamel, American model and actor

565 (1461 years ago) Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (born 482)
1263 (763 years ago) Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (born 1220)
1716 (310 years ago) Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)
1825 (201 years ago) Jean Paul, German journalist and author (born 1763)
1831 (195 years ago) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher, author, and academic (born 1770)
1908 (118 years ago) Guangxu Emperor of China,
1915 (111 years ago) Booker T. Washington, American educator, essayist and historian (born 1856)
1977 (49 years ago) A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian monk and guru, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (born 1896)