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12 Farvardin 1417
Thursday 12 Farvardin 1417 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 1 April 2038, and 25 Safar 1460 in the Islamic calendar.
This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian12 Farvardin 1417
- Gregorian1 April 2038
- Islamic25 Safar 1460
- Imperial12 Farvardin 2597
- Day of the year12 of 365
- Left in the year353 days
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Occasions on 12 Farvardin 1417
- national holiday
- cultural
- international
- fun
- fun
On this day: April 1
Events
- 1867 (159 years ago) Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- 1924 (102 years ago) Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years fortress confinement for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
- 1941 (85 years ago) A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- 1955 (71 years ago) The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
- 1979 (47 years ago) Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
- 2001 (25 years ago) Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
- 2011 (15 years ago) After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers.
Births
- 1578 (448 years ago) William Harvey, English physician and academic (died 1657)
- 1815 (211 years ago) Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (died 1898)
- 1873 (153 years ago) Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1943)
- 1908 (118 years ago) Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (died 1970)
- 1920 (106 years ago) Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (died 1997)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2006)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist, poet, and playwright (died 2023)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
Deaths
- 33 (1993 years ago) Jesus of Nazareth, (Gregorian Calendar Date)
- 996 (1030 years ago) John XV, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1922 (104 years ago) Charles I, emperor of Austria (born 1887)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
- 1976 (50 years ago) Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (born 1891)
- 1984 (42 years ago) Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (born 1939)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet and Russian poet and writer (born 1932)
- 2025 (a year ago) Val Kilmer, American actor (born 1959)