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12 Mordad 1442
Friday 12 Mordad 1442 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 3 August 2063, and 8 Rabi' al-Thani 1486 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
- Persian12 Mordad 1442
- Gregorian3 August 2063
- Islamic8 Rabi' al-Thani 1486
- Imperial12 Mordad 2622
- Day of the year136 of 365
- Left in the year229 days
- ZodiacLeo
- YearSheep
Occasions on 12 Mordad 1442
- religious
- countries
- fun
On this day: August 3
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)