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26 Bahman 1459

Friday 26 Bahman 1459 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 14 February 2081, and 4 Jumada al-Awwal 1504 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

1530 (496 years ago) Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.
1852 (174 years ago) Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
1945 (81 years ago) President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1949 (77 years ago) The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
1979 (47 years ago) In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1989 (37 years ago) Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1990 (36 years ago) The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
2004 (22 years ago) In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.

1404 (622 years ago) Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (died 1472)
1483 (543 years ago) Babur, Mughal emperor (died 1530)
1869 (157 years ago) Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
1942 (84 years ago) Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, 108th Mayor of New York City
1967 (59 years ago) Mark Rutte, Dutch businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1970 (56 years ago) Simon Pegg, English actor, director, and producer
1987 (39 years ago) Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer
1988 (38 years ago) Ángel Di María, Argentinian footballer

269 (1757 years ago) Saint Valentine, Roman saint
1400 (626 years ago) Richard II, king of England (born 1367)
1779 (247 years ago) James Cook, English captain, cartographer, and explorer (born 1728)
1891 (135 years ago) William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (born 1820)
1943 (83 years ago) David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1862)
1975 (51 years ago) P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (born 1881)
2005 (21 years ago) Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1944; assassinated)
2021 (5 years ago) Carlos Menem, Argentine former president, lawyer, and statesman (born 1930)