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26 Shahrivar 1421

Wednesday 26 Shahrivar 1421 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 17 September 2042, and 2 Shawwal 1464 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.

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This day in four calendars

1543 (483 years ago) The first Finnish-language book, the Abckiria by Mikael Agricola, is published in Stockholm.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.
1950 (76 years ago) The Republic of India formally recognised the State of Israel.
1961 (65 years ago) Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crashes during takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing all 37 people on board.
1974 (52 years ago) Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
1991 (35 years ago) Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
2001 (25 years ago) George W. Bush, president of the United States, delivers remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington praising Muslim Americans and condemning Islamophobia in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

1550 (476 years ago) Paul V, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1621)
1826 (200 years ago) Bernhard Riemann, German-Italian mathematician and academic (died 1866)
1857 (169 years ago) Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (died 1935)
1931 (95 years ago) Anne Bancroft, American actress (died 2005)
1950 (76 years ago) Narendra Modi, Indian politician; Chief Minister of Gujarat and 14th Prime Minister of India
1956 (70 years ago) Almazbek Atambayev, Kyrgyz politician, 4th President of Kyrgyzstan
1968 (58 years ago) Anastacia, American singer-songwriter
1975 (51 years ago) Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver

1179 (847 years ago) Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and polymath (born 1098)
1665 (361 years ago) Philip IV, king of Spain (born 1605)
1863 (163 years ago) Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1797)
1879 (147 years ago) Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and theorist (born 1814)
1948 (78 years ago) Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and academic (born 1887)
1994 (32 years ago) Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1902)
1996 (30 years ago) Spiro Agnew, American soldier and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (born 1918)
2021 (5 years ago) Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (born 1937)