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12 Aban 1440

Wednesday 12 Aban 1440 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 2 November 2061, and 19 Jumada al-Thani 1484 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.

This day in four calendars

1868 (158 years ago) Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1889 (137 years ago) North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1966 (60 years ago) The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1983 (43 years ago) U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
1999 (27 years ago) Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
2020 (6 years ago) In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.

1755 (271 years ago) Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
1795 (231 years ago) James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)
1815 (211 years ago) George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)
1865 (161 years ago) Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)
1911 (115 years ago) Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
1913 (113 years ago) Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)
1963 (63 years ago) Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia
1965 (61 years ago) Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host

1083 (943 years ago) Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England (born 1031)
1887 (139 years ago) Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1820)
1950 (76 years ago) George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
1961 (65 years ago) James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (born 1894)
1966 (60 years ago) Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
1975 (51 years ago) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)
2004 (22 years ago) Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the 1st president and founder of the UAE (born 1918)
2004 (22 years ago) Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (born 1957)