April 23- Death of Mohammad Taghi Bahar

3 Ardibehesht, Ardi-Behesht = Best Truth and Purity

477bc: Delian League againest Iran

The Delian League was an association of Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. It was led by Athens. Because many of the league's poleis were too poor to contribute ships to the collective navy, they paid taxes to Athens so that there would be enough money to build the expensive triremes.

In 478 BC, following the defeat of Xerxes' invasion of Greece, Pausanias the Spartan led Hellenic forces against the Persians. He was an unpopular commander (who may have conspired with the Persians), and Sparta was eager to stop prosecuting the war. They surrendered the leadership of the ongoing campaign to Athens, which was eager to accept it. The Delian League was inaugurated in 477 BC as an offensive and defensive alliance against Persia. The principal cities in the League were Athens, Chios, Samos, and Lesbos, but many of the principal islands and Ionian cities joined the league.

Athens led the Delian League from the beginning, though at its founding the treasury was located on the island of Delos, and each state in the league had an equal vote. The assessment due from each state was assigned by Aristides the Just, leader of the Athenians; some members were assessed ships, others troops, others weapons, and others money. A council of all the cities met at Delos regularly, probably when bringing their assessment to the island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Delos

1951: Mohammad Taghi Bahar Death

Mohammad Taghi Bahar (محمدتقی بهار in Persian) (1886 - 1951), famously known as Malek-al-Sho'ara (ملک‌الشع
585;اء, Poet Laureate), is considered as the greatest Twentieth Century Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a very progressive and democratic politician, a journalist, an essayist, a professor of litrature and a historian. Although he was a 20th century poet, his poems were fairly traditional and were sometimes strongly nationalistic. Bahar is considered by many scholars as the greatest Iranian poet in the past 200 years. Many Persian Litrature Scholars have indicated that Bahar's style of poetry, it's depth, beauty and contents could easily be placed on the same platform where other famous Iranian poets such as Ferdowsi, Saadi and Hafiz have stood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Taghi_Bahar
http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/FARSI.ASP?u=&I1. x=29&I1.y=5&GD=23&GM=4