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11 Ordibehesht 1472

Thursday 11 Ordibehesht 1472 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 30 April 2093, and 4 Dhu al-Hijjah 1516 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

1838 (188 years ago) Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1905 (121 years ago) Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Soviet soldiers raise the first Soviet flag over the Reichstag. The Victory Banner will be raised the next day.
1961 (65 years ago) K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1979 (47 years ago) Eruption of Mount Marapi: Mount Marapi, a complex volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupts. Between 80 and 100 people are killed.
2004 (22 years ago) U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

1777 (249 years ago) Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (died 1855)
1883 (143 years ago) Jaroslav Hašek, Czech soldier and author (died 1923)
1893 (133 years ago) Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician, 14th German Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs, executed Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
1946 (80 years ago) King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden,
1949 (77 years ago) António Guterres, Portuguese academic and politician, 114th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1959 (67 years ago) Stephen Harper, Canadian economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
1982 (44 years ago) Kirsten Dunst, American actress
1985 (41 years ago) Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

65 (1961 years ago) Lucan, Roman poet (born 39)
1632 (394 years ago) Sigismund III Vasa, Swedish-Polish son of John III of Sweden (born 1566)
1883 (143 years ago) Édouard Manet, French painter (born 1832)
1945 (81 years ago) Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, dictator of Nazi Germany (born 1889)
1945 (81 years ago) Eva Braun, German photographer and office and lab assistant, wife of Adolf Hitler (born 1912)
1989 (37 years ago) Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1929)
2011 (15 years ago) Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist, author, and painter (born 1911)
2024 (2 years ago) Paul Auster, American writer and film director (born 1947)