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History on the 26th of March

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26 Mar 1830 RELIGIOUS Joseph Smith, 24, first published "The Book of Mormon." Having derived it from golden plates he had discovered with the aid of the angel Moroni, Smith maintained that the plates were written in "Reformed Egyptian" which he had translated with the aid of "Urim and Thummim" two stones hrough which he had viewed the writings.
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26 Mar 1840 RELIGIOUS Birth of George Smith, famed English Assyriologist. During several expeditions to the site of ancient Nineveh, (1873
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26 Mar 1862 RELIGIOUS Hymnwriter Joseph H. Gilmore, 27, a professor of Hebrew at Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, penned the words to the enduring hymn, "He Leadeth Me."
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26 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Gaza
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26 Mar 1918 WW2 Admiral Austin Knight, Commander-in-Chief of the US Asiatic Fleet (flying his flag in the USS Brooklyn) reported that a strong contingent of Red Guards, with at least three German officers among then, had arrived in Vladivostok, Russia. Two days later he reported that the Bolsheviks had begun to remove allied war supplies at the rate of forty railway truckloads per day. 
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26 Mar 1929 RELIGIOUS The Congregation of the Sacraments within the Catholic Church published a document instructing that a plate of silver or metal gilt be held under the chin of the communicant at the reception of the Holy Communion.
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26 Mar 1935 WW2 Driving tests were introduced in the United Kingdom. 
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26 Mar 1939 WW2 Slovakian forces gathered on the Hungarian border in preparation of a renewed counteroffensive, planning on pushing into Hungary if possible. 
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26 Mar 1939 WW2 Japanese troops captured Wucheng, Jiangxi Province, China. To the southwest, Japanese troops reached the west gate of the primary objective, Nanchang, and began the assault. 
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26 Mar 1940 WW2 German submarine U-38 stopped Norwegian merchant ship Cometa 65 miles northwest of Noup Head, Orkney Islands, Scotland and gave Cometa's crew one hour to abandon ship. At 0220 hours, U-38 hit the abandoned Cometa with one torpedo. The crew of 31, 6 Swedish passengers, and 5 British sailors were later rescued by HMS Northern Sky. 
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26 Mar 1940 WW2 French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud called for his country to wage total war against Germany. 
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26 Mar 1940 WW2 Stalin refused to meet Hitler to discuss an issue regarding a border dispute in occupied Poland. 
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26 Mar 1940 WW2 German submarine U-22 became missing in the North Sea, its crew of 27 was never seen again. It was probable that she hit a mine. 
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26 Mar 1940 WW2 Chinese troops evacuated Wuyuan, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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26 Mar 1940 WW2 The British War Cabinet debated French Prime Minister Reynaud's proposal of attacking Soviet oilfields at Baku on the Caspian Sea and Soviet shipping in the Black Sea. Agreeing with the British Prime Minister Chamberlain, the proposals were rejected by the cabinet. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 The German Army High Command authorized the RSHA organization to operate death squads (Einsatzgruppen) in occupied Poland. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 Six Italian explosive motor boats crippled Norwegian tanker Pericles and British cruiser HMS York (killing 2) in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece at 0446 hours; all six Italian boat drivers survived the attack, but all were captured. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 British conscripts could now opt for civil defense duties. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto, 5 cruisers, and 10 destroyers sortied out of Naples, Taranto, and Brindisi in Italy to patrol the area of the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Greece; the goal was to attack Allied convoys bringing troops and supplies to Greece. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 Anti-Axis demonstrations continued in Yugoslavia. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 Winston Churchill sent a message to Archibald Wavell, hinting at Wavell's timidity in countering the recent Axis advances in Libya; he said "e are naturally concerned at rapid German advance to El Agheila. It is their habit to push on wherever they are not resisted. I presume you are only waiting for the tortoise to stick his head out far enough before chopping it off." 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 Canadian armed yacht HMCS Otter caught fire and sank off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, killing 19. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 In a radio broad cast to the American people, US Colonel William Donovan said about the East African campaign, "The British have done a superb job, a better job than they have let the world discover". 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka arrived in Berlin, Germany. He was not met by Joachim von Ribbentrop immediately as his German counterpart was busy with the recent political developments in Yugoslavia. 
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26 Mar 1941 WW2 Allied troops repaired the road running through Dongolaas Gorge in Eritrea, Italian East Africa. Italian troops at nearby heights only realized this after nightfall, by then it was too late to stop the Allied column that was starting to advance, thus the Italians began to withdraw to Keren. Meanwhile, in Abyssinia, The British Nigerian Brigade captured Harar unopposed. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 US Navy warships Washington, Wasp, Wichita, Tuscaloosa, and eight destroyers sailed from Portland, Maine for Britain to reinforce the Royal Navy Home Fleet. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill told politicians of the rival Conservative Party 'It now seems very likely that we and our allies cannot lose this war, except through our own fault'. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 All Jewish homes in Germany were ordered to be marked as so on the exterior. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-71 sank US tanker Dixie Arrow 20 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States at 1459 hours, killing 11 of 33 aboard. Further out to sea, German submarine U-123 sank US Q-ship USS Atik 200 kilometers east of Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States at 1937 hours, killing the entire crew of 139; U-123 lost one to USS Atik's machine gun. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Admiral Sir James Somerville, who had commanded the force that had sunk the Bismark in the previous year, took commanded of the British Eastern Fleet, hoisting his flag in the battleship HMS Warspite at Trincomalee, Ceylon. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Chinese and Japanese troops continued to engage in house-to-house fighting in Taungoo, Burma, with heavy losses on both sides. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 During this night and into the first hours of the next day, Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld shot down four British bombers, increasing his victories to 21. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-652 sank British destroyer HMS Jaguar 20 miles off Sidi Barani, Egypt at 0227 hours, which was escorting British tanker Slavol; 193 were killed, 53 survived. At 0510 hours, U-205 followed-up, sinking Slavol; 36 were killed, 20 survived. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Tenryu departed Kavieng, New Ireland. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Akagi departed Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies with the Striking Force (less Kaga) together with Battleship Division 3, Cruiser Division 8, and Destroyer Squadron 1 for "Operation C", the raid into the Indian Ocean. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies for Operation C. She was assigned to First Air Fleet, Carrier Division 5, Striking Force, Air Attack Force. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's Japanese First Air Fleet, built around a nucleus of five aircraft carriers, sailed from Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies to the west of Timor into the Indian Ocean with the intention of attacking the Royal Navy's bases at Colombo and Trincomalee in Ceylon. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Naka departed Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 French politician Pierre Laval warned Chief of State Philippe Pétain that it was important to cooperate with the Germans to avoid Berlin from appointing a Nazi Party Gauleiter for Vichy France. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 British bombers (104 Wellington and 11 Stirling) attacked Essen, Germany, destroying two homes and killing six civilians; 11 bombers were lost in this attack. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Lexington arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and prepared for an overhaul in the drydock. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 German aircraft attacked Malta, sinking destroyer HMS Legion (11 killed) and empty freighters Pampas and Talabot in the Grand Harbour, and damaging submarine HMS P39 at Kalkara. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft bombed Corregidor, Philippine Islands, knocking out power for freezers containing 24,000 pounds of carabao meat. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 A transport of 999 female Slovakian Jews from Poprad, Czechoslovakia arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland; they were the first Slovakians sent by Adolf Eichmann's RSHA IVB4 office. Coinciding with the arrival of the Slovakian Jews was the arrival of the first transport of female prisoners from Ravensbrück Concentration Camp in northern Germany, also containing 999 Jews. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 3 British destroyers and 16 smaller vessels departed Falmouth, England, United Kingdom with commandos aboard at 1400 hours for the drydock at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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26 Mar 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-14 departed Oban, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Buin, Bougainville departing later on the same day. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 In the Aleutian Islands, American warships intercepted Japanese troops attempting to reinforce Kiska, engaging in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 All remaining British and American citizens in Germany were arrested; all remaining British and American citizens in occupied Europe were deported to Germany. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 British General Wingate ordered his Chindits in Burma to withdraw. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 In the afternoon, British launched Operation Supercharge II to exploit Axis defenses in Tunisia near the Tebaga Gap. At 2300 hours, as the moon rose to provide some light, British tanks pushed through the gap and approached on El Hamma to the north. Tanks of the German 15th Panzer Division were released from reserve to counter the offensive. Axis troops began retreating from the Mareth Line in Tunisia toward Wadi Akarit. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 Remy Van Lierde shot down a German Ju 52 transport aircraft over Belgium, which was his second kill. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Finback attacked the Japanese convoy which she initially intercepted on 24 Mar 1943 north of New Guinea, Dutch East Indies. She damged two transports with 3 of 6 torpedoes fired and was counterattacked with depth charges. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 US B-17 bomber "Pluto", with US General Howard Ramey aboard, disappeared 20 minutes after having taken off from Port Moresby, Australian Papua. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler informed Benito Mussolini that the Battle of Stalingrad had weakened the Soviet Union so much that the city would surely fall and the war would be won. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Whale attacked the Japanese ship she had been pursuing since the previous day east of Saipan, Mariana Islands; all 7 torpedoes missed. 
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26 Mar 1943 WW2 During the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, Nachi was forced to push one of her floatplanes overboard (concussion damage from her own guns), fired several Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes at the US forces (none of which hit), and received five hits (killing 14). 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 Soviet units captured Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, reaching the Romanian border on a wide front. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 British Prime Minister Churchill praised Yugoslavian partisans under Tito. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 The Greek Communist Party established a provisional government in the mountains of northern Greece. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 Japanese submarine I-8 damaged Dutch ship Tjisalak with a torpedo in the Indian Ocean, and then surfaced to exchange shellfire. After the ship sank, the Japanese attacked 97 survivors with swords, wrenches, and sledgehammers. They were then shot and dumped into the water. Six men survived. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 Anton Dostler ordered the execution of the 15 American commandos who were captured on 24 Mar 1944 while attempting to sabotage the La Spezia-Genoa rail line in Italy. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 Troops of Japanese 60th Regiment attacked Sangshak, India after dark, but got lost in the darkness, and many men were trapped in the open in the next morning. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 The US submarine Tullibee was sunk by one of her own torpedoes which malfunctioned when launched against Japanese vessels off Palau Islands. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 Oberleutnant Hans Bennemann and Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm Brennecke of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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26 Mar 1944 WW2 The New Zealand Corps headquarters, currently near Cassino, Italy, was dissolved. Surviving troops were incorporated into British XIII Corps. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 In Germany, US Third Army captured Darmstadt and reached Main, allowing the linking up with US Seventh Army near Worms. On the banks of the Rhine River the British Royal Corps of Engineers completed the construction of a Class 9 bridge "Waterloo Bridge" at 0100 hours and a Class 15 bridge "Lambeth Bridge" at 0830 hours. Meanwhile the construction of an even larger Class 40 bridge "London Bridge" continued and was completed by midnight. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Nazi German official Martin Bormann called for German citizens to become "Werewolf" guerillas. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 General George Patton dispatched the 300-strong Task Force Baum to liberate prisoner of war camp OFLAG XIII-B near Hammelburg, Germany, where his son-in-law John Waters was imprisoned. 32 men were killed and about 200 were captured as the mission resulted in a complete failure. It became another controversy in Patton's military career, in which he was accused of risking 300 lives to save a family member. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured the cities of Devecser and Pápa in Hungary, thus nearing the Austrian border. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Junio Valerio Borghese was made the Chief of the Naval Staff. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 The Japanese mounted the final suicide charge with 200-300 men at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Halligan was fatally damaged by a mine off Okinawa, Japan. The abandoned hulk drifted aground on Tokashiki Island where she was finished off by Japanese shore batteries on the following day. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived in the Kerama Islands southwest of Okinawa, Japan and would remain in the Okinawa area for the next month in support of the invasion. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu rejected the proposal to deliver biological weapons by submarine-borne aircraft on a city on the west coast of the United States due to ethical reasons. Without army support, Operation PX would soon be canceled. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 A small scale special attack by aircraft was conducted by the Japanese off Okinawa, Japan, but a large scale tokko campaign was to come in the future. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet forces captured Gotenhafen, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland). 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov passed away in Moscow, Russia. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Two German V-2 rockets hit Romford, Essex, England, United Kingdom. The first struck Forest Road, destroying 16 buildings and killing 2. The second rocket destroyed one building named "Victory Hut" at Nook Hill. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George who led the country during WW1 died of cancer in Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, Wales, United Kingdom at the age of 83. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Sir Nicholas Cayzer of Britain called for the scrapping of the vast amount of American-built shipping at the end of the war, for otherwise British post-war sea trade would be made uneconomical. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet departed Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Ray departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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26 Mar 1946 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division returned to the United States from Europe. 
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26 Mar 1946 WW2 Long Island was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Mar 1946 WW2 HMS Colossus completed her refitting and repairs at the Selborne drydock at Simonstown, South Africa. 
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26 Mar 1948 WW2 Rodney began to be scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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26 Mar 1957 RELIGIOUS Dr. Basil W. Miller founded the Basil Miller Foundation in Altadena, CA. In 1959 its name was changed to World_Wide Missions.
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