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12 Dey 1459

Wednesday 12 Dey 1459 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 1 January 2081, and 20 Rabi' al-Awwal 1504 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

1776 (250 years ago) General George Washington hoists the first United States flag, the Continental Union Flag, at Prospect Hill.
1804 (222 years ago) French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.
1901 (125 years ago) The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
1927 (99 years ago) New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
1928 (98 years ago) Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran to seek asylum in France. He is the only member of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Soviet Union.
1973 (53 years ago) Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.
1995 (31 years ago) Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.
2024 (2 years ago) A 7.5 Mww earthquake strikes the western coast of Japan, killing more than 500 people and injuring over 1,000 others. A majority of direct deaths were due to collapsed homes.

1431 (595 years ago) Pope Alexander VI,
1449 (577 years ago) Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian politician (died 1492)
1484 (542 years ago) Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss pastor and theologian (died 1531)
1823 (203 years ago) Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and activist (died 1849)
1863 (163 years ago) Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (died 1937)
1879 (147 years ago) E. M. Forster, English author and playwright (died 1970)
1919 (107 years ago) J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (died 2010)
1956 (70 years ago) Christine Lagarde, French lawyer and politician; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

1515 (511 years ago) Louis XII, king of France (born 1462)
1748 (278 years ago) Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1667)
1782 (244 years ago) Johann Christian Bach, German composer (born 1735)
1894 (132 years ago) Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (born 1857)
1953 (73 years ago) Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)
1972 (54 years ago) Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (born 1888)
1992 (34 years ago) Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (born 1906)
1995 (31 years ago) Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)