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26 Farvardin 1491
Friday 26 Farvardin 1491 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 15 April 2112, and 17 Jumada al-Thani 1536 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.
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This day in four calendars
- Persian26 Farvardin 1491
- Gregorian15 April 2112
- Islamic17 Jumada al-Thani 1536
- Imperial26 Farvardin 2671
- Day of the year26 of 365
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On this day: April 15
Events
- 1632 (394 years ago) Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1861 (165 years ago) President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 militiamen to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
- 1896 (130 years ago) Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- 1912 (114 years ago) The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
- 1922 (104 years ago) U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: In the Belfast Blitz, 200 bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing some 1,000 people.
- 1969 (57 years ago) The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring over 500 others.
Births
- 1452 (574 years ago) Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519)
- 1469 (557 years ago) Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru (died 1539)
- 1707 (319 years ago) Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783)
- 1858 (168 years ago) Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (died 1917)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1971)
- 1912 (114 years ago) Kim Il Sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (died 1994)
- 1949 (77 years ago) Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1990 (36 years ago) Emma Watson, English actress
Deaths
- 1558 (468 years ago) Hurrem Sultan, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent and the Haseki sultan of Ottoman Empire (born 1505)
- 1765 (261 years ago) Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist and physicist (born 1711)
- 1865 (161 years ago) Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (born 1809)
- 1888 (138 years ago) Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (born 1822)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (born 1880)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (born 1905)
- 1998 (28 years ago) Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1925)