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25 Aban 1498

Thursday 25 Aban 1498 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 16 November 2119, and 12 Rabi' al-Thani 1544 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

1855 (171 years ago) David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1914 (112 years ago) The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1933 (93 years ago) The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1944 (82 years ago) The Jussi Awards, the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for the first time at Restaurant Adlon in Helsinki.
1988 (38 years ago) In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1988 (38 years ago) The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
1997 (29 years ago) After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

42 BC Tiberius, Roman emperor (died 37 AD)
1717 (309 years ago) Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1793)
1874 (152 years ago) Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (died 1920)
1894 (132 years ago) Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian philosopher and politician (died 1972)
1922 (104 years ago) José Saramago, Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (died 2010)
1955 (71 years ago) Guillermo Lasso, Ecuadoran businessman, 47th President of Ecuador
1974 (52 years ago) Paul Scholes, English footballer and sportscaster
1985 (41 years ago) Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, former Prime Minister of Finland

1240 (786 years ago) Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (born 1165)
1272 (754 years ago) Henry III of England,
1625 (401 years ago) Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter (born c. 1532)
1797 (229 years ago) Frederick William II of Prussia,
1808 (218 years ago) Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan (born 1779)
1960 (66 years ago) Clark Gable, American actor (born 1901)
2005 (21 years ago) Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
2006 (20 years ago) Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)