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26 Azar 1461

Wednesday 26 Azar 1461 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 16 December 2082, and 25 Rabi' al-Awwal 1506 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

1497 (529 years ago) Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River at the southern tip of Africa, where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
1960 (66 years ago) A United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.
1971 (55 years ago) The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
1972 (54 years ago) The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh is enacted.
1997 (29 years ago) Dennō Senshi Porygon: Over 600 kids in Japan suffer photosensitive epileptic seizures after watching an episode of the Pokémon anime.
2013 (13 years ago) A bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, capital of the Philippines, killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.

1485 (541 years ago) Catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess, Queen Consort of England (died 1536)
1770 (256 years ago) Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (died 1827)
1775 (251 years ago) Jane Austen, English novelist (died 1817)
1863 (163 years ago) George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (died 1952)
1866 (160 years ago) Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (died 1944)
1901 (125 years ago) Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (died 1978)
1917 (109 years ago) Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer (died 2008)
1928 (98 years ago) Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author (died 1982)

705 (1321 years ago) Wu Zetian, Empress of the Zhou dynasty (born 624)
882 (1144 years ago) John VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
1515 (511 years ago) Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese admiral and politician, 3rd Viceroy of Portuguese India (born 1453)
1774 (252 years ago) François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher (born 1694)
1897 (129 years ago) Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1840)
1921 (105 years ago) Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1835)
1965 (61 years ago) W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (born 1874)
2009 (17 years ago) Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia (born 1956)