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26 Esfand 1481

Saturday 26 Esfand 1481 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 17 March 2103, and 8 Safar 1527 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

1862 (164 years ago) The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened.
1948 (78 years ago) Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1960 (66 years ago) U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1988 (38 years ago) A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 (38 years ago) Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992 (34 years ago) A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2000 (26 years ago) Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
2004 (22 years ago) Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.

763 (1263 years ago) Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (died 809)
1537 (489 years ago) Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō (died 1598)
1834 (192 years ago) Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (died 1900)
1919 (107 years ago) Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist, and television host (died 1965)
1920 (106 years ago) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (died 1975)
1938 (88 years ago) Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (died 1993)
1986 (40 years ago) Edin Džeko, Bosnian footballer
1989 (37 years ago) Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer

180 (1846 years ago) Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (born 121)
1406 (620 years ago) Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian sociologist, historian, and scholar (born 1332)
1680 (346 years ago) François de La Rochefoucauld, French author (born 1613)
1782 (244 years ago) Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1700)
1846 (180 years ago) Friedrich Bessel, German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (born 1784)
1853 (173 years ago) Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (born 1803)
1956 (70 years ago) Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1976 (50 years ago) Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1906)