26 Farvardin 1401 | Friday 15 April 2022

This day in four calendars

1632 (394 years ago) Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1861 (165 years ago) President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 militiamen to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
1896 (130 years ago) Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1912 (114 years ago) The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
1922 (104 years ago) U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: In the Belfast Blitz, 200 bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing some 1,000 people.
1969 (57 years ago) The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
2013 (13 years ago) Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring over 500 others.

1452 (574 years ago) Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519)
1469 (557 years ago) Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru (died 1539)
1707 (319 years ago) Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783)
1858 (168 years ago) Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (died 1917)
1894 (132 years ago) Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1971)
1912 (114 years ago) Kim Il Sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (died 1994)
1949 (77 years ago) Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer-songwriter and actress
1990 (36 years ago) Emma Watson, English actress

1558 (468 years ago) Hurrem Sultan, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent and the Haseki sultan of Ottoman Empire (born 1505)
1765 (261 years ago) Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist and physicist (born 1711)
1865 (161 years ago) Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (born 1809)
1888 (138 years ago) Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (born 1822)
1942 (84 years ago) Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (born 1880)
1980 (46 years ago) Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
1990 (36 years ago) Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (born 1905)
1998 (28 years ago) Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1925)