12 Mordad 1401

Events

• 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.

Births

• 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

Deaths

• 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)

All 381 events, births and deaths of August 3