March 26

is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). There are 280 days remaining.

Events

1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 - Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands.
1707 - The Act of Union becomes law, uniting England and Scotland into one state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 - An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1839 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1913 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.
1917 - World War I: First Battle of Gaza - British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1934 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.
1942 - World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.
1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1971 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 - A Dictatorship of Terror begins in Argentina. As a result of the state terrorism, thirty thousand people are murdered. Their final whereabouts remain unknown.
1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1979 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.
1982 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.
1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects e-mail systems around the world.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2000 - The Seattle Kingdome is imploded to make room for a new stadium.
2000 - Presidential elections are held in Russia, and Vladimir Putin is elected President.
2001 - The very last broadcast of WCW Monday Night Nitro is held on TNT in Panama City Beach, Florida.
2005 - Return of Doctor Who after 16-year absence.
2006 - In Scotland the prohibition of smoking in all public places came into force.

Births

1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
1753 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
1859 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
1875 - Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born bridge engineer (d. 1965)
1882 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1940)
1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
1904 - Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)
1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
1905 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)
1911 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2003)
1911 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)
1913 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
1914 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
1914 - William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)
1916 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1916 - Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986)
1916 - Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986)
1917 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001)
1919 - Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980)
1922 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
1923 - Bob Elliott, American comedian
1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
1925 - James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor
1930 - Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director
1934 - Alan Arkin, American actor
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 - James Caan, American actor
1940 - Nancy Pelosi, American politician
1942 - Erica Jong, American author
1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1945 - Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)
1946 - Johnny Crawford, American actor
1946 - Alain Madelin, French politician
1947 - Dar Robinson, American stunt man (d. 1986)
1948 - Steven Tyler, American musician (Aerosmith)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer
1950 - Martin Short, Canadian comedian
1950 - Ernest Thomas, American actor
1951 - Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)
1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1954 - Curtis Sliwa, American founder of the Guardian Angels
1956 - Charly McClain, American singer
1957 - Leeza Gibbons, American television host
1960 - Marcus Allen, American football player
1960 - Jennifer Grey, American actress
1961 - William Hague, British politician
1962 - John Stockton, American basketball player
1962 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch television host
1963 - Kyogoku Natsuhiko, Japanese writer
1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer andsongwriter
1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver
1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish hockey player
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1970 - Mark Osher, Australian writer
1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist
1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer
1974 - Mike Peca, Canadian hockey player
1976 - Amy Smart, American actress
1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer
1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
1983 - Michael Brenley, Professional wrestler
1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Keira Knightley, English actress
1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean Off Spinner
1987 - YUI, Japanese musician
1991 - Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress

Deaths

922 - Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer
1212 - King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)
1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
1546 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat
1566 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1510)
1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)
1726 - Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (b. 1664)
1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)
1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)
1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine (b. 1738)
1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)
1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
1902 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853)
1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
1910 - An Jung-geun, Japanese assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (b. 1873)
1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
1958 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
1959 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
1969 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)
1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1983 - Anthony Blunt, British spy (b. 1907)
1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
1990 - Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932)
1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963)
1996 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
1996 - David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912)
2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920
2002 - Randy Castillo, Drummer for Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue (b. 1950)
2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927)
2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)
2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
2005 - Marius Russo, baseball player (b. 1914)
2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

Zoroastrianism - Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday.
Prince Kuhio Day in Hawaii

Liturgical feasts

Catholic:

Orthodox Christian liturgical calendar - Synaxis of St. Gabriel the Archangel

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