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23 Dey 1497
Friday 23 Dey 1497 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 13 January 2119, and 1 Jumada al-Thani 1543 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.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian23 Dey 1497
- Gregorian13 January 2119
- Islamic1 Jumada al-Thani 1543
- Imperial23 Dey 2677
- Day of the year299 of 365
- Left in the year66 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearLeopard
Occasions on 23 Dey 1497
- religious
On this day: January 13
Events
- 1900 (126 years ago) To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees German will be language of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 1963 (63 years ago) Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
- 1972 (54 years ago) Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
- 1982 (44 years ago) Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
- 1985 (41 years ago) A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.
- 2021 (5 years ago) Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.
Births
- 1864 (162 years ago) Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
- 1960 (66 years ago) Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1961 (65 years ago) Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, comedian, and producer
- 1966 (60 years ago) Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver
- 1977 (49 years ago) Orlando Bloom, English actor
- 1990 (36 years ago) Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
- 1997 (29 years ago) Luis Díaz, Colombian footballer
Deaths
- 86 BC Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (born 157 BC)
- 888 (1138 years ago) Charles the Fat, Frankish king and emperor (born 839)
- 1599 (427 years ago) Edmund Spenser, English poet, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1552)
- 1717 (309 years ago) Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist and illustrator (born 1647)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (born 1859)
- 1941 (85 years ago) James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1882)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (born 1924)