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  • 1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor, founding the Salian dynasty
  • Caracas lies in ruins after the deadly 1812 earthquake

    Massive Earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela

    1812 Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela, and kills an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people
  • 1871 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris who form the short lived Paris Commune government
  • 1909 Russian military forces invade northern Persia to support Mohammad Ali Shah's coup d'état against the constitutional government in Persia and relieve the siege of Tabriz
  • Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann sits in the dock at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem

    'The Banality of Evil'

    1942 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps
  • Children with polio in a US hospital, inside an iron lung. In about 0.5% of cases, patients suffered from paralysis, sometimes resulting in the inability to breathe. More often, limbs would be paralyzed.

    Polio

    1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio, clinical trials begin the following year
  • 1966 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago
  • 1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares independence from Pakistan
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  • 1953 Japanese film "Ugetsu" is released, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō and Kinuyo Tanaka
  • 1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release the single "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
  • 1972 LA Lakers break the NBA wins record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13), record stands for 24 years

Richard III of England (1452-85) is reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England, after being discovered under a carpark in Leicester in 2012

March 26, 2015

  • Tennessee Williams

    1911 - 1983

  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    1930 - 2023

  • Mahmoud Abbas

    90 Years Old

  • Nancy Pelosi

    85 Years Old

  • Bob Woodward

    82 Years Old

  • Larry Page

    52 Years Old
More Birthdays on March 26

  • Strother Martin

    1919 - 1980

  • Leonard Nimoy

    1931 - 2015

  • Diana Ross

    81 Years Old

  • Martin Short

    75 Years Old

  • Martin McDonagh

    55 Years Old

  • Keira Knightley

    40 Years Old

  • Steven Tyler

    77 Years Old

  • John Stockton

    63 Years Old

Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid

March 26, 1845

  • 1771 Political activist Thomas Paine (34) weds second wife Elizabeth Ollive
  • 1842 Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi (34) weds Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro (20) in Montevideo
  • 1938 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) weds second wife Helen Byrne Armstrong
  • 1960 Academy Award-winning actor Yul Brynner (39) divorces actress Virginia Gilmore (40) after 15 years of marriage
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  • James Hutton

    1726 - 1797

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    1770 - 1827

  • Walt Whitman

    1819 - 1892

  • Cecil Rhodes

    1853 - 1902

  • David Lloyd George

    1863 - 1945

  • Geraldine Ferraro

    1935 - 2011
More March 26 Deaths
  • An etching of Catherine Hayes

    Murder Most Foul in Olde England

    Few murders were so horrific as the one that came to light on this day in history. And few punishments so grisly as that which befell Catherine Hayes. March 26, 1726
  • Medical Researcher and Virologist Jonas Salk

    Weekly Quiz for March 23 - 29

    What infectious disease did Dr Jonas Salk announce a vaccine for in 1953? What was the original purpose of the Terracotta Army, discovered in China in 1974?
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  • John Manningham's diary. Photograph: British Library

    John Manningham Notes the Passing of Queen Elizabeth I

    March 24, 1603
  • ‘Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound’ by the artist Joseph Severn, painted in 1845, 23 years after the poet’s death

    Rebel With a Cause: The Life of Shameless Shelley

    March 25, 1811
  • The “Black Widow”: Patrizia at the funeral of Maurizio Gucci

    Gucci Chief Falls Prey to the Black Widow

    March 27, 1995
  • Albert Memorial as it is Today

    Albert's Monumental Legacy

    March 27, 1878
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