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12 Farvardin 1422

Wednesday 12 Farvardin 1422 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 1 April 2043, and 20 Rabi' al-Thani 1465 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.

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This day in four calendars

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.

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)

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)