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10 Farvardin 1492

Thursday 10 Farvardin 1492 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 30 March 2113, and 12 Jumada al-Thani 1537 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

1844 (182 years ago) One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1912 (114 years ago) Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1949 (77 years ago) Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1959 (67 years ago) Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1981 (45 years ago) U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
2006 (20 years ago) Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
2019 (7 years ago) Pope Francis visits Morocco.
2023 (3 years ago) Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

1135 (891 years ago) Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (April 6 also proposed, d. 1204)
1432 (594 years ago) Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (died 1481)
1746 (280 years ago) Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and sculptor (died 1828)
1844 (182 years ago) Paul Verlaine, French poet (died 1896)
1853 (173 years ago) Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator (died 1890)
1945 (81 years ago) Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
1968 (58 years ago) Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter
1986 (40 years ago) Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

1842 (184 years ago) Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (born 1755)
1912 (114 years ago) Karl May, German author (born 1842)
1925 (101 years ago) Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and author (born 1861)
1949 (77 years ago) Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
1950 (76 years ago) Léon Blum, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1872)
1986 (40 years ago) James Cagney, American actor and dancer (born 1899)
2002 (24 years ago) Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (born 1900)
2003 (23 years ago) Michael Jeter, American actor (born 1952)