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26 Dey 1456

Saturday 26 Dey 1456 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 15 January 2078, and 30 Safar 1501 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

1867 (159 years ago) Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
1970 (56 years ago) Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
1970 (56 years ago) Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1981 (45 years ago) Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
1991 (35 years ago) The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
2001 (25 years ago) Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, is launched (Wikipedia Day).
2016 (10 years ago) The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
2019 (7 years ago) Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19.

1622 (404 years ago) Molière, French actor and playwright (died 1673)
1809 (217 years ago) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French economist and politician (died 1865)
1850 (176 years ago) Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (died 1891)
1850 (176 years ago) Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (died 1889)
1908 (118 years ago) Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (died 2003)
1918 (108 years ago) Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, second President of Egypt (died 1970)
1929 (97 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
1996 (30 years ago) Dove Cameron, American actress and singer

69 (1957 years ago) Galba, Roman emperor (born 3 BC)
936 (1090 years ago) Rudolph of France,
1919 (107 years ago) Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (born 1871)
1919 (107 years ago) Karl Liebknecht, German politician (born 1871)
1988 (38 years ago) Seán MacBride, Irish republican activist and politician, Minister for External Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
1998 (28 years ago) Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian economist and politician, Prime Minister of India (born 1898)
2018 (8 years ago) Dolores O'Riordan, Irish pop singer (born 1971)
2025 (a year ago) David Lynch, American television and film director, visual artist and musician, complications from emphysema (born 1946)