26 Mehr 1399

Events

• 1713 (313 years ago) Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I
• 1933 (93 years ago) Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1988 (38 years ago) Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
• 2004 (22 years ago) A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2019 (7 years ago) The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.

Births

• 1760 (266 years ago) Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (died 1825)
• 1813 (213 years ago) Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (died 1837)
• 1912 (114 years ago) Pope John Paul I,
• 1915 (111 years ago) Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2005)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (died 1987)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Montgomery Clift, American actor (died 1966)
• 1972 (54 years ago) Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1979 (47 years ago) Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver

Deaths

• 532 (1494 years ago) Pope Boniface II,
• 1849 (177 years ago) Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (born 1810)
• 1887 (139 years ago) Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (born 1824)
• 1889 (137 years ago) Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1828)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (born 1808)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (born 1854)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Puyi, Chinese emperor (born 1906)
• 1983 (43 years ago) Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (born 1905)

All 559 events, births and deaths of October 17