March 26
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March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years). There are 280 days remaining.
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[change] Events
- 1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the third Sikh Guru.
- 1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- 1808 – Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favour of his son, Ferdinand VII.
- 1812 – Caracas, Venezuela, is destroyed in an earthquake, killing 12,000 people.
- 1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
- 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
- 1872 – An earthquake kills 27 people in Lone Pine, California.
- 1881 – The Principality of Romania declares itself a Kingdom.
- 1898 – Kruger National Park is founded in South Africa.
- 1931 – SwissAir is founded.
- 1934 – The Driving Test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 1942 – The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
- 1945 – The US declares Iwo Jima secure.
- 1971 – East Pakistan declares independence under the name of Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
- 1973 – The Young and The Restless airs for the first time.
- 1976 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom sends the first royal email.
- 1979 – Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt peace treaty in Washington, DC.
- 1991 – The Mercosur Common Market is founded by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
- 1995 – The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
- 1997 – Members of the Heaven's Gate cult commit suicide.
- 1999 – The Melissa worm infects Microsoft Word Processing and email systems.
- 1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- 2000 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
- 2006 – Burma's military junta moves its seat, capital city, from Rangoon to Naypyidaw in the Mandalay Division.
- 2006 – Smoking is banned in all public places in Scotland.
- 2010 – The South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan sinks, killing 46 seamen. It is believed that a North Korean torpedo was responsible.
[change] Births
- 603 – Pacal II, Mayan ruler (d. 683)
- 1516 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
- 1849 – Armand Peugeot, French businessman (d. 1915)
- 1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
- 1868 – King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
- 1871 – Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole, Hawaiian prince and politician (d. 1922)
- 1874 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1874 – Oskar Nedbal, Bohemian composer and conductor (d. 1930)
- 1875 – Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)
- 1875 – Rhee Syng-man, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
- 1876 – William, Prince of Albania (d. 1945)
- 1882 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
- 1884 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
- 1893 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian Communist leader (d. 1964)
- 1896 – Rudolf Dassler, German sportswear executive (d. 1974)
- 1904 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician (d. 2004)
- 1904 – Attilio Ferraris, Italian footballer (d. 1947)
- 1908 – Franz Stangl, Nazi Concentration Camp commandant (d. 1971)
- 1911 – Bernard Katz, German biophysicist (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Tennessee Williams, American writer and playwright (d. 1983)
- 1913 – Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
- 1916 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (d. 1995)
- 1923 – Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
- 1925 – Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
- 1925 – James Moody, American jazz musician (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1931 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor
- 1934 – Alan Arkin, American actor
- 1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician
- 1938 – Anthony James Leggett, American physicist
- 1940 – James Caan, American actor
- 1940 – Nancy Pelosi, American politician
- 1941 – Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
- 1944 – Diana Ross, American singer (The Supremes)
- 1945 – Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)
- 1948 – Richard Tandy, British musician
- 1948 – Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith)
- 1949 – Patrick Sueskind, German writer
- 1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1950 – Martin Short, Canadian actor and screenwriter
- 1951 – Carl Wieman, American physicist
- 1952 – Didier Pironi, French racing driver (d. 1987)
- 1953 – Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
- 1960 – Jennifer Grey, American actress
- 1961 – William Hague, British politician
- 1964 – Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1968 – Kenny Chesney, American singer
- 1968 – James Iha, American musician
- 1973 – Larry Page, American co-founder of Google
- 1976 – Amy Smart, American actress
- 1977 – Kevin Davies, English footballer
- 1979 – Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Massimo Donati, Italian footballer
- 1982 – Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – Andreas Hinkel, German footballer
- 1983 – Roman Bednar, Czech footballer
- 1985 – Keira Knightley, British actress
- 1987 – Steven Fletcher, Scottish footballer
- 1989 – Simon Kjaer, Danish footballer
- 1994 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese actress and singer (AKB 48)
[change] Deaths
- 304 – Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr
- 1130 – King Sigurd I of Norway (b. 1090)
- 1212 – King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)
- 1797 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
- 1814 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (b. 1738)
- 1827 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
- 1888 – Barghash bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
- 1892 – Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
- 1902 – Cecil Rhodes, English explorer and colonial politician (b. 1853)
- 1923 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
- 1926 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
- 1940 – Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (b. 1873)
- 1945 – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
- 1959 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
- 1973 – Noel Coward, British composer and playwright (b. 1899)
- 1973 – George Sisler, American baseball player (b. 1893)
- 1976 – Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
- 1984 – Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
- 1987 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
- 1995 – Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963)
- 1997 – Marshall Applewhite, American, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult (b. 1931)
- 2005 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
- 2008 – Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Paul Baran, American computer programmer (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Diana Wynne Jones, British author (b. 1934)
[change] Observances
- Independence Day in Bangladesh
- Prince Kuhio Day (Hawaii)
- Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday (Zoroastrianism)
- Day of Democracy (Mali)
