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22 Esfand 1443
Thursday 22 Esfand 1443 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 12 March 2065, and 4 Dhu al-Hijjah 1487 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
- Persian22 Esfand 1443
- Gregorian12 March 2065
- Islamic4 Dhu al-Hijjah 1487
- Imperial22 Esfand 2623
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On this day: March 12
Events
- 1912 (114 years ago) The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- 1913 (113 years ago) The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
- 1918 (108 years ago) Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
- 1930 (96 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
- 1968 (58 years ago) Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1971 (55 years ago) The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
- 2020 (6 years ago) The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Births
- 1685 (341 years ago) George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (died 1753)
- 1824 (202 years ago) Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (died 1887)
- 1863 (163 years ago) Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1938)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (died 1969)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 (83 years ago) Ratko Mladić, Serbian general
- 1946 (80 years ago) Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
- 1947 (79 years ago) Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
Deaths
- 417 (1609 years ago) Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church
- 604 (1422 years ago) Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 540)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (born 1830)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1866)
- 1942 (84 years ago) William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
- 1955 (71 years ago) Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (born 1920)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1952)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1948)