1 Shahrivar · Khshathra 1417

Events on this day

• Avicenna Day · Ruz-e Ebn-e Sina

  Iranian · Cultural

  Commemoration of Avicenna (Ibn Sina), physician and philosopher; Iran's physicians' day.

• Krishna Janmashtami · Janmashtami

  Hindu · Cultural

  Krishna's birth at midnight, on the eighth day of the waning moon of Bhadrapada (Shravana in the southern reckoning), in August or September; this is the Vaishnava date, and Smarta households may keep it a day earlier.

Other events

• Battle of Chaldiran · Nabard-e Chaldoran
• Dormition Fast · Day 10
• Fars Movement (Southern Uprising) · Nehzat-e Fars

Facts

• Day 156 of 1417
• 209 days left
• Zodiac sign: Virgo · Sonboleh