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26 Mehr 1479

Monday 26 Mehr 1479 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 18 October 2100, and 14 Sha'ban 1524 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

1009 (1017 years ago) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 (1010 years ago) The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.
1561 (465 years ago) In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, resulting in a draw.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
1945 (81 years ago) Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.
1945 (81 years ago) A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1991 (35 years ago) The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 (23 years ago) Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.

1130 (896 years ago) Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (died 1200)
1405 (621 years ago) Pope Pius II,
1859 (167 years ago) Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
1919 (107 years ago) Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2000)
1926 (100 years ago) Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
1956 (70 years ago) Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
1987 (39 years ago) Zac Efron, American actor and singer

707 (1319 years ago) Pope John VII,
1503 (523 years ago) Pope Pius III,
1871 (155 years ago) Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (born 1791)
1893 (133 years ago) Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (born 1818)
1931 (95 years ago) Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1847)
1934 (92 years ago) Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
2021 (5 years ago) Colin Powell, American military leader and statesman, 65th Secretary of State (born 1937)
2025 (a year ago) Yang Chen-Ning, Chinese theoretical physicist (born 1922)