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12 Mehr 1458

Wednesday 12 Mehr 1458 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 4 October 2079, and 8 Dhu al-Hijjah 1502 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

1209 (817 years ago) Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
1582 (444 years ago) The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
1602 (424 years ago) Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
1636 (390 years ago) Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth ends in a Union victory, with General William Rosecrans protecting the critical rail junction of Corinth, Mississippi from Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn.
1917 (109 years ago) World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1965 (61 years ago) Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
2006 (20 years ago) WikiLeaks is launched.

1822 (204 years ago) Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (died 1893)
1895 (131 years ago) Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer (died 1966)
1916 (110 years ago) Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
1923 (103 years ago) Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist (died 2008)
1941 (85 years ago) Anne Rice, American author (died 2021)
1946 (80 years ago) Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
1956 (70 years ago) Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
1989 (37 years ago) Dakota Johnson, American actress

1582 (444 years ago) Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (born 1515)
1669 (357 years ago) Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1606)
1903 (123 years ago) Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (born 1880)
1904 (122 years ago) Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)
1947 (79 years ago) Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
1970 (56 years ago) Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
1982 (44 years ago) Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1932)
2013 (13 years ago) Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (born 1911)