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26 Aban 1406

Wednesday 26 Aban 1406 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 17 November 2027, and 18 Jumada al-Thani 1449 in the Islamic calendar.

This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.

This day in four calendars

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.

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

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)