26 Aban 1402

Events

• 1775 (251 years ago) The city of Kuopio, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this time) is founded by King Gustav III of Sweden.
• 1811 (215 years ago) José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
• 1831 (195 years ago) Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.
• 1869 (157 years ago) In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
• 1969 (57 years ago) Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
• 1989 (37 years ago) Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
• 2000 (26 years ago) Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

Births

• 9 (2017 years ago) Vespasian, Roman emperor (died 79)
• 1749 (277 years ago) Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (died 1841)
• 1755 (271 years ago) Louis XVIII, king of France (died 1824)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
• 1942 (84 years ago) Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
• 1944 (82 years ago) Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer
• 1952 (74 years ago) Cyril Ramaphosa, South African businessman and politician, fifth President of South Africa
• 1978 (48 years ago) Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress

Deaths

• 375 (1651 years ago) Valentinian I, Roman emperor (born 321)
• 1492 (534 years ago) Jami, Persian poet and saint (born 1414)
• 1494 (532 years ago) Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (born 1463)
• 1558 (468 years ago) Mary I of England,
• 1796 (230 years ago) Catherine the Great, of Russia (born 1729)
• 1917 (109 years ago) Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (born 1840)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1927)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)

All 423 events, births and deaths of November 17