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12 Mehr 1485
Monday 12 Mehr 1485 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 4 October 2106, and 6 Shawwal 1530 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
- Persian12 Mehr 1485
- Gregorian4 October 2106
- Islamic6 Shawwal 1530
- Imperial12 Mehr 2665
- Day of the year198 of 365
- Left in the year167 days
- ZodiacLibra
- YearLeopard
Occasions on 12 Mehr 1485
- religious
- international
- international
- international
- countries
- fun
On this day: October 4
Events
- 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.
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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)