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12 Esfand 1490

Wednesday 12 Esfand 1490 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 2 March 2112, and 3 Jumada al-Awwal 1536 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

1859 (167 years ago) The two-day Great Slave Auction, once thought to be the largest such auction in United States history, begins.
1933 (93 years ago) The film King Kong premieres in Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in New York City.
1955 (71 years ago) Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
1977 (49 years ago) Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopts the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
1992 (34 years ago) Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, all of which (except San Marino) were former Soviet republics, join the United Nations.
2004 (22 years ago) War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
2017 (9 years ago) The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia.
2026 The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launches several projectiles into northern Israel as a response to the assassination of Ali Khamenei, formally initiating the 2026 Lebanon War.

480 (1546 years ago) Benedict of Nursia, Italian Christian saint (died 543 or 547)
1459 (567 years ago) Pope Adrian VI,
1810 (216 years ago) Pope Leo XIII,
1824 (202 years ago) Bedřich Smetana, Czech pianist and composer (died 1884)
1876 (150 years ago) Pope Pius XII,
1931 (95 years ago) Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
1937 (89 years ago) Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algerian soldier and politician, 5th President of Algeria (died 2021)
1968 (58 years ago) Daniel Craig, English actor and producer

274 (1752 years ago) Mani, Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism (born 216)
1791 (235 years ago) John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (born 1703)
1835 (191 years ago) Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1768)
1855 (171 years ago) Nicholas I, Russian emperor (born 1796)
1895 (131 years ago) Berthe Morisot, French painter (born 1841)
1930 (96 years ago) D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (born 1885)
1939 (87 years ago) Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (born 1874)
1982 (44 years ago) Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author (born 1928)