19 Shahrivar 2576 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 19 Shahrivar 1396 Shamsi and 2017-09-10 Gregorian. Pouya Bakhtiari Birthday is observed on this day. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.
19 Shahrivar 2576 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Sunday — equivalent to 19 Shahrivar 1396 Shamsi and 10 September 2017 Gregorian.
Pouya Bakhtiari was an electrical engineering graduate killed at age 27 during the November 2019 protests by a gunshot to the head in Karaj. Known as the "Face of Bloody November," his parents were imprisoned for holding memorial services.
Today is 19 Shahrivar in the Shahanshahi calendar — one day in thousands of years of unbroken Persian culture.
چو آفتاب تو طالع شدی ز مشرق روح ز مشرق تو دگر آفتاب سر نزند
“When you rose as sun from the east of soul From your east no other sun shall rise”
— Rumi