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26 Ordibehesht 1388
Saturday 26 Ordibehesht 1388 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 16 May 2009, and 21 Jumada al-Awwal 1430 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian26 Ordibehesht 1388
- Gregorian16 May 2009
- Islamic21 Jumada al-Awwal 1430
- Imperial26 Ordibehesht 2568
- Day of the year57 of 365
- Left in the year308 days
- ZodiacTaurus
- YearOx
Occasions on 26 Ordibehesht 1388
- international
- international
On this day: May 16
Events
- 946 (1080 years ago) Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
- 1584 (442 years ago) Santiago de Vera becomes sixth governor-general of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
- 1822 (204 years ago) Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
- 1916 (110 years ago) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
- 1925 (101 years ago) The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
- 1975 (51 years ago) Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 2003 (23 years ago) In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
- 2005 (21 years ago) Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
Births
- 1611 (415 years ago) Pope Innocent XI,
- 1718 (308 years ago) Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1799)
- 1883 (143 years ago) Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (died 1986)
- 1905 (121 years ago) Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer
- 1966 (60 years ago) Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1974 (52 years ago) Laura Pausini, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1986 (40 years ago) Megan Fox, American actress
Deaths
- 1703 (323 years ago) Charles Perrault, French author and academic (born 1628)
- 1830 (196 years ago) Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (born 1768)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (born 1910)
- 2010 (16 years ago) Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1942)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)
- 2019 (7 years ago) I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)