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12 Mehr 1441

Tuesday 12 Mehr 1441 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 3 October 2062, and 29 Jumada al-Awwal 1485 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

52 BC Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
1789 (237 years ago) George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day.
1863 (163 years ago) The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
1986 (40 years ago) TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
1990 (36 years ago) The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
2009 (17 years ago) Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
2015 (11 years ago) Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

1889 (137 years ago) Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1938)
1895 (131 years ago) Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (died 1925)
1897 (129 years ago) Louis Aragon, French author and poet (died 1982)
1925 (101 years ago) Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 2012)
1969 (57 years ago) Gwen Stefani, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
1973 (53 years ago) Lena Headey, British actress
1981 (45 years ago) Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
1988 (38 years ago) Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress

1226 (800 years ago) Francis of Assisi, Italian friar and saint (born 1181 or 1182)
1896 (130 years ago) William Morris, English author and poet (born 1834)
1929 (97 years ago) Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)
1931 (95 years ago) Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1865)
1967 (59 years ago) Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1912)
1987 (39 years ago) Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (born 1910)
1988 (38 years ago) Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (born 1915)
2004 (22 years ago) Janet Leigh, American actress (born 1927)