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Events on the 26th of March in history

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26 Mar 0590 Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
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26 Mar 1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
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26 Mar 1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
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26 Mar 1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
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26 Mar 1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
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26 Mar 1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
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26 Mar 1344 The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
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26 Mar 1351 Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights.
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26 Mar 1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
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26 Mar 1526 King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France
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26 Mar 1526 King Fran
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26 Mar 1534 L
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26 Mar 1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
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26 Mar 1636 Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
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26 Mar 1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
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26 Mar 1668 England takes control of Bombay India
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26 Mar 1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
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26 Mar 1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
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26 Mar 1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
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26 Mar 1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vend
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26 Mar 1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
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26 Mar 1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
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26 Mar 1804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase
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26 Mar 1812 A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
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26 Mar 1812 An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
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26 Mar 1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die
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26 Mar 1821 Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna
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26 Mar 1824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
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26 Mar 1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
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26 Mar 1839 The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
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26 Mar 1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta
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26 Mar 1845 Joseph Francis, New York NY, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
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26 Mar 1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
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26 Mar 1856 New South Wales' 1st first-class game, vs Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales won
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26 Mar 1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
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26 Mar 1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
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26 Mar 1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
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26 Mar 1871 Paris Commune founded
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26 Mar 1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
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26 Mar 1872 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
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26 Mar 1878 Hastings College of Law founded
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26 Mar 1878 Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
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26 Mar 1881 Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
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26 Mar 1885 The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
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26 Mar 1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
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26 Mar 1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
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26 Mar 1886 1st cremation in England
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26 Mar 1889 Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) vs. South Africa at Newlands
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26 Mar 1889 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26 out of 47! South Africa vs England
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26 Mar 1889 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs England
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26 Mar 1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
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26 Mar 1900 1st edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, probably Amsterdam)
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26 Mar 1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
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26 Mar 1909 August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm
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26 Mar 1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
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26 Mar 1910 William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US
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26 Mar 1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
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26 Mar 1913 Balkan Wars: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
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26 Mar 1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
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26 Mar 1915 Ice hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
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26 Mar 1915 Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators in 3
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26 Mar 1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
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26 Mar 1917 Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
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26 Mar 1917 World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
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26 Mar 1917 Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montr
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26 Mar 1922 The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
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26 Mar 1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
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26 Mar 1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London
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26 Mar 1926 ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies
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26 Mar 1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
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26 Mar 1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
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26 Mar 1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
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26 Mar 1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
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26 Mar 1931 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
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26 Mar 1931 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
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26 Mar 1931 Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
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26 Mar 1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
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26 Mar 1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies
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26 Mar 1934 The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
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26 Mar 1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
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26 Mar 1935 "RvJ" Mitchell and Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
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26 Mar 1936 1st parliamentary debate on New Zealand radio
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26 Mar 1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech
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26 Mar 1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
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26 Mar 1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
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26 Mar 1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye
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26 Mar 1937 William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
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26 Mar 1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
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26 Mar 1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
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26 Mar 1940 Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York City
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26 Mar 1942 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps
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26 Mar 1942 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
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26 Mar 1942 World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
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26 Mar 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
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26 Mar 1942 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA
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26 Mar 1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel
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26 Mar 1943 Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
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26 Mar 1943 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
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26 Mar 1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
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26 Mar 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen
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26 Mar 1945 Generals Eisenhower / Bradley / Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
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26 Mar 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
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26 Mar 1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
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26 Mar 1945 De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
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26 Mar 1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
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26 Mar 1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
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26 Mar 1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
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26 Mar 1945 Venray soccer team forms
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26 Mar 1949 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36
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26 Mar 1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
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26 Mar 1951 USAF flag approved
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26 Mar 1952 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
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26 Mar 1952 F D
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26 Mar 1953 Salk Polio vaccine announced
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26 Mar 1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis]
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26 Mar 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
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26 Mar 1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett, " becomes the #1 record in US
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26 Mar 1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms
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26 Mar 1956 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
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26 Mar 1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai, " Woodward and Guinness win
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26 Mar 1958 Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
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26 Mar 1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
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26 Mar 1958 The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
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26 Mar 1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness & Joanne Woodward win
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26 Mar 1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
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26 Mar 1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs West Indies age 15 years 124 days
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26 Mar 1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem
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26 Mar 1960 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
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26 Mar 1960 USC captures NCAA swimming title
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26 Mar 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
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26 Mar 1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature
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26 Mar 1964 "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
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26 Mar 1964 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
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26 Mar 1967 Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
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26 Mar 1967 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
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26 Mar 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
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26 Mar 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
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26 Mar 1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
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26 Mar 1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use
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26 Mar 1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
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26 Mar 1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
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26 Mar 1970 South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy
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26 Mar 1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
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26 Mar 1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
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26 Mar 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
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26 Mar 1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
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26 Mar 1971 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
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26 Mar 1971 East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
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26 Mar 1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
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26 Mar 1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
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26 Mar 1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
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26 Mar 1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
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26 Mar 1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
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26 Mar 1973 Soap "Young and the Restless" premieres
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26 Mar 1973 UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
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26 Mar 1973 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA's 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title
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26 Mar 1973 Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premieres
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26 Mar 1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
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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.
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26 Mar 1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 Mar 1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President
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26 Mar 1975 "Tommy" premieres in London
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26 Mar 1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
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26 Mar 1975 "Tommy" premieres in London
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26 Mar 1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight losses
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26 Mar 1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
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26 Mar 1976 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
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26 Mar 1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
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26 Mar 1978 Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
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26 Mar 1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
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26 Mar 1979 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
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26 Mar 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
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26 Mar 1979 Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
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26 Mar 1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
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26 Mar 1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
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26 Mar 1981 Soyuz T-4 lands
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26 Mar 1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the UK
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26 Mar 1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
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26 Mar 1982 A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..
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26 Mar 1982 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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26 Mar 1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
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26 Mar 1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
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26 Mar 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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26 Mar 1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
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26 Mar 1987 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in New York NY
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26 Mar 1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
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26 Mar 1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
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26 Mar 1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
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26 Mar 1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500 meter freestyle female world record (15: 2.10)
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26 Mar 1989 1st free elections in the USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
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26 Mar 1989 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
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26 Mar 1990 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy, " D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
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26 Mar 1990 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
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26 Mar 1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City
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26 Mar 1991 Local self-government is restored after three decades of centralized control in South Korea.
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26 Mar 1991 Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved.
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26 Mar 1991 Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
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26 Mar 1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London
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26 Mar 1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
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26 Mar 1991 Victoria beat New South Wales by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
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26 Mar 1992 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
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26 Mar 1992 NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
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26 Mar 1994 Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
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26 Mar 1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds)
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26 Mar 1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14: 2.60)
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26 Mar 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7: 3.26)
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26 Mar 1994 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
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26 Mar 1995 "Defending the Caveman, " opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
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26 Mar 1995 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
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26 Mar 1995 The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
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26 Mar 1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
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26 Mar 1995 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
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26 Mar 1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
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26 Mar 1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland vs Victoria)
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26 Mar 1997 "Annie, " opens at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
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26 Mar 1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
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26 Mar 1997 "Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
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26 Mar 1997 NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan
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26 Mar 1998 Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: Fifty-two people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them children under the age of two.
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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.
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26 Mar 1999 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
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26 Mar 2005 The Taiwanese government calls on one 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 demonstration.
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26 Mar 2010 The ROKS Cheonan sinks off the west coast of South Korea near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.
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26 Mar 2014 A massive fire breaks out in Back Bay, Boston killing 2 firefighters and injuring at least 18 people.
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