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12 Mordad 1396

Thursday 12 Mordad 1396 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 3 August 2017, and 10 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1438 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

435 (1591 years ago) Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1960 (66 years ago) Niger gains independence from France.
1981 (45 years ago) Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1997 (29 years ago) Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
2005 (21 years ago) President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2019 (7 years ago) Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
2023 (3 years ago) Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.

1867 (159 years ago) Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)
1872 (154 years ago) Haakon VII of Norway,
1903 (123 years ago) Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)
1926 (100 years ago) Tony Bennett, American singer and actor (died 2023)
1940 (86 years ago) Martin Sheen, American actor and producer
1959 (67 years ago) Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1963 (63 years ago) James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 (47 years ago) Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress

1924 (102 years ago) Joseph Conrad, British novelist (born 1857)
1942 (84 years ago) Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
1954 (72 years ago) Colette, French novelist and journalist (born 1873)
1968 (58 years ago) Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (born 1896)
1979 (47 years ago) Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
2004 (22 years ago) Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (born 1908)
2008 (18 years ago) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
2020 (6 years ago) John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)