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100 years anniversary | ||||
26 Mar 1924 | Augusto de Oliviera Machado: Composer, dies at 78 | |||
26 Mar 1924 | Augusto de Oliviera Machado composer, dies at 78 | |||
26 Mar 1924 | Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
26 Mar 1949 | Baroness Hayman | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Ernest Lee Thomas, American actor and producer | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Patrick Süskind, German author and screenwriter | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Fran Sheehan, American bass player (Boston) | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Rudi Koertzen, South African cricketer and umpire | |||
26 Mar 1949 | birth Fran Sheehan, bass, Boston, (1977 UK No.22 single 'More Than A Feeling', 1986 US No.1 single 'Amanda'). | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Baroness Hayman | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Fran Sheehan Boston MA, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling) | |||
26 Mar 1949 | Vicki Lawrence Inglewood CA, actress (Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family) | |||
26 Mar 1949 | 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36 | |||
26 Mar 1949 |
death Albert William Stevens Died 26 Mar 1949 at age 63 (born 13 Mar 1886). U.S. Army officer, balloonist, and early aerial photographer who took the first photograph of the Earth's curvature (1930) and the first photographs of the Moon's shadow on the Earth during a solar eclipse (1932). On 11 Nov 1935, Stevens made a record balloon ascent in the Explorer II to 72,395 ft with Captain (later Lieutenant General) Orvil Anderson at Rapid City, S.D. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
26 Mar 1974 | Alfred Shipman: CFL slot back (BC Lions) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Hakeem Abdul-samad: Rocker (Boys) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Irina Spirlea: Bucharest, Romania -- Tennis star (1996 Amelia Island) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Mike Peca: Toronto, Ontario -- NHL center (Buffalo Sabres) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu President | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko movement in India. | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Vadimas Petrenko, Lithuanian footballer | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Michael Peca, Canadian ice hockey player and coach | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Alfred Shipman CFL slot back (British Columbia Lions) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Hakeem Abdul-samad rocker (Boys) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Irina Spirlea Bucharest Romania, tennis star (1996 Amelia Island) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Mike Peca Toronto, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres) | |||
26 Mar 1974 | George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title | |||
26 Mar 1974 | Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President | |||
26 Mar 1974 |
death Edward U. Condon Died 26 Mar 1974 at age 72 (born 2 Mar 1902). Edward Uhler Condon was an American physicist who is remembered for the Franck-Condon principle (1928), development of radar and contributing to the design of magnetic separation equipment subsequently applied to process uranium for atomic bombs. The Franck-Condon principle (1928) is a quantum-mechanical treatment of the earlier statement by James Franck (1925) that in any molecular system the transition from one energy state to another occurs so near to instantaneously that the nuclei of the atoms involved are stationary. During the Manhattan project, he assisted J. Robert Oppenheimer assemble the team of scientist that created the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos, N.M. He led a scientific study of UFO's, which found no credible evidence. |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
26 Mar 1999 | A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. | |||
26 Mar 1999 | The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. | |||
26 Mar 1999
Melissa worm |
Melissa worm (computer science) The Melissa worm attacks the Internet. |
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20 years anniversary | ||||
26 Mar 2004 | Jan Sterling, American actress and singer (b. 1921) | |||
26 Mar 2004 | Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, died at the age of 62, after being in poor health sustained in a 1966 car crash. Had the 1963 US No.1 & UK No.26 single 'Surf City', (co written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson). At the height of their fame, Jan and Dean hosted and performed at The T.A.M.I. Show, the film also featured The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
26 Mar 2009 | Shane McConkey, Canadian skier and BASE jumper (b. 1969) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
26 Mar 2014 | A massive fire breaks out in Back Bay, Boston killing 2 firefighters and injuring at least 18 people. | |||
26 Mar 2014 | Marcus Kimball, Baron Kimball, English politician (b. 1928) | |||
26 Mar 2014 | Dick Guidry, American businessman and politician (b. 1929) | |||
26 Mar 2014 | George Bookasta, American actor and director (b. 1917) | |||
26 Mar 2014 | Roger Birkman, American psychologist and author (b. 1919) |