25 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti 1392
Events on this day
- Chotrul Düchen (Day of Miracles) · Chotrul Duchen
Buddhist · Cultural
The first full moon after Losar, closing the fifteen days of the Buddha's miracles at Shravasti, kept with displays of butter lamps.
- Halabja chemical attack
Kurdish · Historical
Saddam Hussein's regime gassed the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988, killing thousands.
- Purim
Jewish · Cultural
The rescue of the Jews of Persia told in the Book of Esther. Iranian Jews have long marked it at the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamadan. Begins at sunset the evening before.
- Completion of the Shahnameh · Payan-e Sorayesh-e Shahnameh
Iranian · Cultural
Ferdowsi finished the Shahnameh, the Persian Book of Kings, in 1010 after some thirty years' work.
Other events
Facts
- Day 361 of 1392
- 4 days left
- Zodiac sign: Pisces · Hut