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26 Mehr 1478

Saturday 26 Mehr 1478 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 17 October 2099, and 2 Sha'ban 1523 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

1713 (313 years ago) Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.
1919 (107 years ago) Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I
1933 (93 years ago) Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
1979 (47 years ago) Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1988 (38 years ago) Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
2004 (22 years ago) A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.
2019 (7 years ago) The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.

1760 (266 years ago) Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (died 1825)
1813 (213 years ago) Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (died 1837)
1912 (114 years ago) Pope John Paul I,
1915 (111 years ago) Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2005)
1918 (108 years ago) Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (died 1987)
1920 (106 years ago) Montgomery Clift, American actor (died 1966)
1972 (54 years ago) Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
1979 (47 years ago) Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver

532 (1494 years ago) Pope Boniface II,
1849 (177 years ago) Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (born 1810)
1887 (139 years ago) Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (born 1824)
1889 (137 years ago) Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1828)
1893 (133 years ago) Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (born 1808)
1938 (88 years ago) Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (born 1854)
1967 (59 years ago) Puyi, Chinese emperor (born 1906)
1983 (43 years ago) Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (born 1905)