Notable Historical Events on March 26th
March 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1027 |
John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Salian dynasty |
1147 |
Jewish community in Cologne fasts to commemorate anti-Jewish violence |
1484 |
William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables. |
1526 |
King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France |
1534 |
Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea |
1552 |
Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru. |
1636 |
University of Utrecht opening ceremony |
1668 |
England takes control of Bombay, India |
1692 |
King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands |
1780 |
1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor) |
1790 |
US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency |
1793 |
Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France |
1799 |
Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine |
1804 |
Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana |
1804 |
Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase |
1808 |
Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII. |
1812 |
Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela; about 20,000 die |
1821 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna |
1824 |
1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" |
1830 |
The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. |
1839 |
1st Henley Royal Regatta |
1845 |
Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat |
1845 |
Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid |
1852 |
Decree regarding streets of Paris passed |
1856 |
NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won |
1859 |
1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury |
1862 |
Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch) |
1863 |
Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves |
1871 |
Paris Commune founded |
1872 |
7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California |
1872 |
Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher |
1878 |
Hastings College of Law founded in California |
1878 |
Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens |
1881 |
Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again. |
1885 |
Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film |
1885 |
Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask |
1886 |
1st cremation in England |
1889 |
Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England |
1889 |
Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands |
1889 |
South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England |
1895 |
King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day |
1900 |
1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam) |
1903 |
American Hotel opens in Amsterdam |
1909 |
August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm |
1909 |
In support of Mohammed Ali Shah's coup d'etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz |
1910 |
US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick |
1910 |
William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US |
1913 |
Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War |
1913 |
Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously |
1915 |
Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators |
1916 |
Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary |
1917 |
Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup |
1923 |
Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1 |
1924 |
Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London |
1926 |
ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies |
1926 |
The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America |
1927 |
Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA |
1927 |
Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms |
1930 |
Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway |
1931 |
Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty |
1931 |
Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio |
1931 |
New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies |
1934 |
Driving tests introduced in Britain |
1935 |
"RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire |
1936 |
1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio |
1936 |
200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech |
1936 |
Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska |
1937 |
Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat |
1937 |
Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye |
1937 |
William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands) |
1938 |
NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony |
1940 |
Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC |
1942 |
1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps |
1942 |
1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec |
1942 |
Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pa, kills 21 |
1942 |
German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel |
1943 |
Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean |
1943 |
Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal |
1944 |
705 British bombers attack Essen |
1945 |
British premier Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) |
1945 |
De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34 |
1945 |
Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine |
1945 |
Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima |
1945 |
Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto |
1945 |
US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms |
1945 |
Venray soccer team forms |
1949 |
11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36 |
1951 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open |
1951 |
USAF flag approved |
1952 |
14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63 |
1952 |
F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi" premieres in Munich |
1953 |
Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio |
1954 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
1955 |
"Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US |
1956 |
Medic Alert Foundation forms |
1956 |
Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One |
1958 |
30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai" best film, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness best actress/actor |
1958 |
US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" |
1958 |
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris. |
1959 |
Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124 days |
1960 |
Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem |
1960 |
Orioles-Reds series planned for Havana is moved to Miami |
1960 |
USC captures NCAA swimming title |
1961 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival |
1962 |
Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg |
1964 |
"Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances |
1965 |
A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas." |
1967 |
21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win |
1967 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open |
1967 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio |
1969 |
Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV |
1969 |
Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use |
1969 |
Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched |
1970 |
"Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances |
1970 |
500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945 |
1970 |
Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark |
1970 |
Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl |
1970 |
The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force |
1971 |
"Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings |
1971 |
"Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV |
1971 |
Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence |
1972 |
"Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 perfs |
1972 |
Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic |
1972 |
LA Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13) |
1972 |
William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland |
1973 |
35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76 |
1973 |
Soap "Young & Restless" premieres |
1973 |
Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange |
1973 |
UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title |
1974 |
George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title in Caracas, Venezuela |
1974 |
Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president |
1975 |
"Tommy" premieres in London |
1975 |
Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses |
1975 |
The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force. |
1976 |
AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M |
1976 |
Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album |
1976 |
Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. |
1977 |
Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero" |
1977 |
Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson |
1979 |
41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64 |
1979 |
Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt |
1979 |
Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak |
1979 |
Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it |
1979 |
OPEC makes full 14.5% oil price increase for 1979 effective on April 1 |
1980 |
Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) |
1981 |
Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia |
1981 |
Soyuz T-4 lands |
1982 |
Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
1982 |
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK |
1982 |
Soap opera "Capitol" premieres |
1983 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
Geffen records signs Guns & Roses |
1987 |
August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in NYC |
1987 |
Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
1987 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit |
1987 |
Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet) |
1988 |
Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10) |
1989 |
1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins |
1989 |
Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
1990 |
62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win |
1991 |
Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC |
1991 |
Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London |
1991 |
Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34 |
1991 |
Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final |
1992 |
Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington |
1992 |
NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years |
1994 |
Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec) |
1994 |
Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26) |
1994 |
Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60) |
1994 |
Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo |
1995 |
"Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf |
1995 |
"Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs |
1995 |
15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins |
1995 |
24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen |
1995 |
Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup |
1995 |
The Schengen Treaty goes into effect. |
1996 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v Vic) |
1996 |
The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia. |
1997 |
"Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
1997 |
NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan |
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 Microsoft word processing and 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 |
72nd Academy Awards - "American Beauty", Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win |
2001 |
Kazakhstan's Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Monday, giving the Central Asian producer its first direct link to international markets |
2005 |
The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk. |
2006 |
In Scotland the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force. |
2006 |
The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital. |
2012 |
Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal |
2012 |
Canadian Film maker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years |
2013 |
Ariana Grande's first single, "The Way", is released |
2014 |
Taavi Rõivas becomes Prime Minister of Estonia |
2016 |
Pope on Good Friday Decries Terror Profaning God's Name |
2016 |
US health officials tell couples exposed to Zika to wait to conceive |
2016 |
Cuba: Crowds gather for landmark Rolling Stones concert |
2016 |
Iraq violence: 'IS suicide attack' kills 29 in football match |
2017 |
Blasts Kill 3 as Bangladeshi Troops Raid Militant Hide-Out |
2017 |
Dubai World Cup: Arrogate wins $10m race |
2018 |
At least 53 die in Russia shopping mall fire |
2018 |
Porn star says she was threatened to keep silence on Trump: TV interview |
2018 |
Stormy Daniels, in '60 Minutes' interview, says she had sex with Donald Trump once |
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