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26 Ordibehesht 1479

Sunday 26 Ordibehesht 1479 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 16 May 2100, and 6 Rabi' al-Awwal 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

946 (1080 years ago) Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
1584 (442 years ago) Santiago de Vera becomes sixth governor-general of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
1822 (204 years ago) Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1916 (110 years ago) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
1925 (101 years ago) The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
1975 (51 years ago) Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2003 (23 years ago) In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2005 (21 years ago) Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.

1611 (415 years ago) Pope Innocent XI,
1718 (308 years ago) Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1799)
1883 (143 years ago) Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (died 1986)
1905 (121 years ago) Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
1953 (73 years ago) Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer
1966 (60 years ago) Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
1974 (52 years ago) Laura Pausini, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1986 (40 years ago) Megan Fox, American actress

1703 (323 years ago) Charles Perrault, French author and academic (born 1628)
1830 (196 years ago) Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (born 1768)
1926 (100 years ago) Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
1947 (79 years ago) Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
1953 (73 years ago) Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (born 1910)
2010 (16 years ago) Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1942)
2013 (13 years ago) Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)
2019 (7 years ago) I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)