12 Shahrivar · Khshathra 1397

Hindu · Cultural

Krishna's birth at midnight, on the eighth day of the waning moon of Bhadrapada (Shravana in the southern reckoning), in August or September; this is the Vaishnava date, and Smarta households may keep it a day earlier.

National · National holiday

A day for workers in the United States and Canada, on the first Monday of September.

Persian Gulf · Historical

Rais Ali Delvari, who led the men of Tangestan against the British forces occupying Bushehr in the First World War, was killed on 12 Shahrivar 1294 (3 September 1915).