• Recognizing Iraq as the aggressor of Iraq–Iran war
    • war (18 Azar 1370 /9 December 1991) At the very last hours of 31 Shahrivar 1359 (22 September 1980), in talks with the representatives of both governments, the united nations’ the Secretary-General suggested them to ...
    • Irans research Day
    • Day (25 Azar / 16 December) Some had defined research as reaching the truth. Within a look at Iranian scholars' old compilations and books shows that they had made all their efforts to reach the truth. The very years...
    • Formation of Literacy Movement by Imam's command
    • (7 Day 1358/ 28 December 1979) The almighty God has created human and deposited wisdom in him for thinking to discern right and false, good and evil, foul and fair and detect his way through life and simultaneously...
    • Nathanael West
    • est Author ( October 17 , 1903 - December 22 , 1940 ) West was born in 1903 in New York City, New York to Max and Anna (Wallenstein) Weinstein.  His Jewish family was financially supported by his father, ...
    • Karel 268apek
    • apek Novelist, playwright, and editorialist used word robot for first time ( January 9 , 1890 - December 25 , 1938 ) The Czech novelist, playwright, and editorialist Karel Čapek was born inMalé Sva...
    • Hermann Samuel Reimarus 
    • German philosopher and writer ( December 22 , 1694 - March 1 , 1768 ) He was educated by his father and by the scholar JA Fabricius , whose son-in-law he subsequently became. He studied theology , ancient l...
    • College students’ day
    • day (16 Azar 1332 /7 December 1953) Since the modern university inIran had existed less than 80 years, College students’ political activities don’t last long. At the very beginning the universities was specified to me...
    • Clara Barton
    • ton American Humanitarian ( December 25 , 1821 – April 12 , 1912 ) Clara Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. In her long career of public service Miss Barton was succ...
    • Nostradamus
    • mus ( December 14 , 1503 - July 1 , 1566 ) Michel de Nostradame, more commonly known as Nostradamus, was born on December 14, 1503, in St. Remy de Provence. He was a seer and a time traveler living in 2 realit...
    • Naguib Mahfouz
    • ouz ( December 11 , 1911 ) Naguib Mahfouz is considered one of the foremost writers in modern Arabic literature. Born in the al-Jamaliyya district of Cairo, Egypt, on December 11, 1911, he was the youngest of seve...
    • Michael Owen
    • wen English football player (December 14, 1979 in Chester, UK) Michael James Owen is an English football player. He plays as a striker, and is noted particularly for his speed and acceleration. He has enjoyed a hu...
    • John Milton
    • ton Widely considered among the five greatest poets in the English language, John Milton was born and educated inLondon, the son of a musical composer.  His early schooling took place at the St. Paul's School.  F...
    • Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch
    • och Physician ( December 11 , 1843 - May 27 , 1910 ) Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( December 11 , 1843 - May 27 , 1910 ) was a German physician. He became famous for the discovery of the tubercle bacillus...
    • Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
    • ace The First Computer Programmer (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852) Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history. Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the da...
    • Willa Siebert Cather
    • er ( December 7 , 1873 - April 24 , 1947 ) Willa Sibert Cather,Nebraska's most noted novelist, was born in l873 inVirginia. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska, and lived o...
    • Washington Irving
    • ing (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) Washington Irving was an American author of the early 19th century.He was born in New York City. A lawyer, he served as American ambassador to Britain and later to Spain. He s...
    • Walter Elias Disney
    • ney ( December 5 , 1901 – December 15 , 1966 ) Walt Disney was born onDecember 5, 1901 inChicago, Illinois, the fourth of five children. While none of the children finished school, Walt, a talented artist, ...
    • Martin Heinrich Klaproth
    • th ( December 1 , 1743 – January 1 , 1817 ) Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist . Klaproth was born at Wernigerode . During a large portion of his life he followed the profession of an apothecary . ...
    • Ernst Werner von Siemens
    • ens (December 13, 1816 - December 6, 1892) Ernst Werner von Siemens was a German electrical engineer who played an important role in the development of the telegraph industry. Siemens Company was founded in Berlin by...
    • Willis Haviland Carrier
    • ier (November 26, 1876 - October 9, 1950) Willis Haviland Carrier was an engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented air conditioning. He was born on a farm near Angola, New York, and inherited his mo...
    • Norbert Wiener
    • ner Founder of cybernetics (November 26, 1894 - March 18, 1964) Norbert Wiener was born in 1894, on November 26, inColumbia (Missouri). His father, Leo Wiener, once a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard,...
    • Laurence Sterne
    • erne ( November 24 , 1713 - March 18 , 1768 ) Sterne, Laurence, English author, b.Ireland. Educated at Cambridge, he entered the Anglican Church and was given the living of Sutton-in-the-Forest, Yorkshire, in...
    • Charles Miller
    • iller father of football in Brazil November 24 , 1874 After ten years spent studying inEngland, Charles Miller returned to the country of his birth Brazil and was amazed that no-one knew how to play ...
    • Isaac Todhunter
    • nter ( November 23 , 1820 - March 1 , 1884 ) Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician , son of George Todhunter, a Nonconformist minister, was born atRye. He was educated at Hastings , at which town his mot...
    • George Eliot
    • ans (George Eliot) ( 22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880 ) George Eliot, (Mary Ann, later Marian Evans, 1819-80) was the youngest surviving child of Robert Evans, agent for an estate in Warwickshire. In her g...
    • Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Klest
    • est ( October 18 , 1777 - November 21 , 1811 ) German poet, dramatist and novelist, was born at Frankfort-onOder on the 18th of October 1777. After a scanty education, he entered the Prussian army in 1792, ser...
    • William Herschel
    • hel ( November 15 , 1738 - August 25 , 1822 ) Herschel was born as Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in Hanover, Germany, one of ten children (of which four died very young). He changed his name after moving to Engl...
    • Claude Monet
    • net ( November 14 , 1840 - December 5 , 1926 ) Claude Monet was one of the founding fathers of French Impressionism. Monet's concern was to reflect the influence of light on a subject. He never abandoned hi...
    • Booker T. Washington
    • ton ( April 5 , 1856 - November 15 , 1915 ) Booker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography,Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm which, despite its small size, he...
    • Ken Kesey
    • esey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) Ken Kesey, the youngest of two sons, was born in on September 17, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado and in 1946 moved with his family to Springfield, Oregon, where he spent severa...
    • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
    • kell (September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is often seen as the most socially traditional of the major Victorian women authors.  Unlike George Eliot, she had no extra-marital affairs, u...
    • Edmond Halley
    • ey (8 Nov. 1656 _ 14 Jan. 1742) Edmond (or Edmund) Halley 's father was also calledEdmond (or Edmund) Halley. He came from a Derbyshire family and was a wealthy soap-maker in London at a time when the use of soap was...
    • Bram Stoker
    • er ( November 8 , 1847 - April 20 , 1912 ) Abraham "Bram" Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland onNovember 8th, 1847. After spending his early childhood bedridden by an unidentified illness, Stoker deve...
    • Aron Nimzowitsch
    • sch ( November 7 , 1886 - March 16 , 1935 ) Aron Nimzowitsch (also Nimzovich or Niemzowitsch) was a Latvian chess master. With his new ideas in chess strategy he was the forerunner of the so-called hypermode...
    • Léon Theremin
    • min (August 15, 1896–November 3, 1993) A young Leon Theremin playing his invention Leon Theremin (born Lev Sergeivitch Termen) was the Russian inventor of the Theremin, an electronic musical instrument. Leon Theremin...
    • Lucy Maud Montgomery
    • ery (November 3, 1874 - April 24, 1942) Lucy Maud Montgomery was born inClifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island. When she was two, her mother died of tuberculosis. Her father, who was a merchant, remarried, a...
    • Johann (III) Bernoulli
    • lli  (November 4 1744 _ July 13 1807) Johann (III) Bernoulli was a son of Johann (II) Bernoulli. He was certainly considered a prodigy when a child with an encyclopedic knowledge and, like many other members o...
    • James Naismith
    • ith (November 6, 1861 - November 28, 1939) Doctor James Naismith, is the inventor of the sport of basketball and the first to introduce the use of a helmet in American football. In 1891, while working as a physical...
    • Thomas Midgley
    • ley (May 18, 1889 - November 2, 1944) Thomas Midgley, Jr., was a clever American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetra-ethyl lead additive to gasoline and chloro-fluorocarbons (CFCs). While ...
    • George Bernard Shaw
    • aw (26 July 1856 _ 2 November 1950) George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's ...
    • Jonas Salk, M.D.
    • .D. (October 28, 1914 _ June 23, 1995) Jonas Salk was born in New York City. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants who, although they themselves lacked formal education, were determined to see their children succ...
    • Henry Dunant
    • ant (May 8, 1828 - October 30, 1910) Jean Henri Dunant was a Swiss businessman and humanitarian who founded the Red Cross movement. He was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. A man deeply religious in the Ca...
    • Captain James Cook
    • ook (October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779) James Cookwas a British explorer and navigator. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, in which its main shorelines were discovered. Cook was also a map maker.At the age...
    • United Nations Day
    • Day 24 October United Nations Day is an international observance to mark the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations onOctober 24, 1945. In the spring of that year representatives of fifty nations gathered ...
    • The Foundation of Red Cross Society
    • ety October 24 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works around the world on a strictly neutral and impartial basis to protect and assist people affected by armed conflicts and internal disturbances. It ...
    • Pablo Picasso
    • sso (1881—1973) Pablo Picasso was born inMalaga, Spain in 1881. He is one of the most famous artists in the world. When he was young he amazed friends by drawing a perfect picture without lifting his pencil or looking a...
    • Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    • oek (October 24, 1632 _ August 30, 1723) Antony van Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. A tradesman of Delft, Holland, he came from a family of tradesmen, had no fortune, received no higher education or university...
    • Eric Ambler
    • ler ( June 28, 1909 - October 22, 1998) English author widely regarded with Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene as one of the pioneers of stories of espionage and crime. Ambler published 19 novels under his own nam...
    • Nadir Shah
    • hah (October 22, 1688 - June, 1747) Nadir Shah (Nadir Qoli Beg) was a Shah of Persia who ruled 1736-1747 and who was the founder of the Afshari dynasty. He has sometimes been described as the Persian Napoleon. Nader Sh...