This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
03/26/1516 Konrad von Gesner, Zrich Switz, naturalist (Bibliotheca Universalis

03/26/1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer 
03/26/1684 Johann Graf, composer 
03/26/1717 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer 
03/26/1758 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer 
03/26/1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)

03/26/1783 Johann Baptist Weigl, composer 
03/26/1806 Josef Slavik, composer 
03/26/1813 Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 
03/26/1817 Herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 
03/26/1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer 
03/26/1819 Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist 
03/26/1827 Emanuel Kania, composer 
03/26/1830 Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer 
03/26/1830 John Rogers Thomas, composer 
03/26/1833 Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist 
03/26/1840 Carli Zoeller, composer 
03/26/1850 Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward) 
03/26/1854 Braulio Dueno Colon, composer 
03/26/1859 A E Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad) 
03/26/1859 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer 
03/26/1862 George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer 
03/26/1868 Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36) 
03/26/1871 Seraf¡n Alvarez Quint‚ro, Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo)

03/26/1874 Oskar Nedbal, composer 
03/26/1874 Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) 
03/26/1875 Syngman Rhee, pres of South Korea (1948-60) 
03/26/1880 Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)

03/26/1884 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein 1905) 
03/26/1885 Julius Harrison, composer 
03/26/1885 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer 
03/26/1888 Elsa Br„ndstr”m, [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist 
03/26/1888 Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist (Atlas ”ver Svensk Folk culture) 
03/26/1889 Vaclav Kapral, composer 
03/26/1890 Jozef Arras, Flemish writer 
03/26/1893 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy) 
03/26/1896 Richard Flury, composer 
03/26/1897 Jean Epstein, French director (Sa tˆte/Eau vive) 
03/26/1898 Renzo Massarani, composer 
03/26/1899 James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale) 
03/26/1899 William Baines, composer 
03/26/1900 Isadore Freed, composer 
03/26/1904 Hermann Schroeder, composer 
03/26/1904 Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image) 
03/26/1905 Pablo Garrido, composer 
03/26/1907 Leigh Harline, composer 
03/26/1907 Louis Saguer, composer 
03/26/1908 Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) 
03/26/1908 Hank Sylvern, Bkln NY, orch leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) 
03/26/1908 Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935) 
03/26/1908 Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist 
03/26/1909 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, opera singer 
03/26/1911 Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

03/26/1914 William Westmoreland, army general (Vietnam era) 
03/26/1916 Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972) 
03/26/1916 Vic Schoen, Bkln NY, orch leader (Patti Page Olds Show) 
03/26/1917 Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge in England 
03/26/1917 Rufus Thomas, Miss, singer (Walking the Dog) 
03/26/1919 Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra) 
03/26/1919 Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot) 
03/26/1920 George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73-  ) 
03/26/1922 William Milliken, actor (Drive-in) 
03/26/1923 Clifton Williams, Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians) 
03/26/1923 Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius) 
03/26/1924 Bob Elliot, Boston Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life) 
03/26/1925 Alec McCowen, England, actress (Frenzy, Hanover Street, Stevie) 
03/26/1925 Claudio Spies, composer 
03/26/1925 Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip) 
03/26/1925 Lord Hooson QC, crown court recorder 
03/26/1925 Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial

03/26/1926 Ann Curtis, US, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948) 
03/26/1930 Cristobal Halffter, composer 
03/26/1930 Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man) 
03/26/1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981-  ) 
03/26/1931 Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) 
03/26/1934 Alan Arkin, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark) 
03/26/1934 Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964) 
03/26/1936 Erich Urbanner, composer 
03/26/1937 Barbara Pearl Jones, Chic Ill, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952, 60

03/26/1937 Wayne Embry, holder of seven basketball records at Miami of Ohio 
03/26/1939 James Caan, actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather) 
03/26/1939 Phillip R Allen, Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice

03/26/1940 Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California) 
03/26/1940 Rod Lauren, rocker (If I Had a Girl) 
03/26/1940 Servaes [J S] Huys, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA) 
03/26/1942 Erica Jong, NYC, author (Fear of Flying) 
03/26/1943 Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes) 
03/26/1944 Diana Ross, Detroit Mich, (Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany)

03/26/1945 Mikhail Voronin, USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968) 
03/26/1946 Johnny Crawford, LA Calif, actor (Mark-The Rifleman) 
03/26/1947 Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer 
03/26/1948 Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters) 
03/26/1948 Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun) 
03/26/1949 Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family

03/26/1950 Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!) 
03/26/1950 Graham Barlow, cricketer 
03/26/1950 Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos) 
03/26/1950 Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone) 
03/26/1950 Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights) 
03/26/1950 Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart) 
03/26/1951 Richard B Shull, US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus) 
03/26/1953 Michael Bonagura, Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)

03/26/1955 Dean Dillon, Lake City TN, country singer (Chair) 
03/26/1956 Charly McClain, Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart) 
03/26/1956 Tatyana Kochergina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 
03/26/1957 Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight) 
03/26/1960 Billy Warlock, Hawthorne Calif, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch) 
03/26/1960 Marcus Allen, NFL footballer (LA Raiders) 
03/26/1960 Michael Evans, Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88) 
03/26/1962 John Stocton, Spokane Wa, basketball player (Ut Jazz/Olympic-gold-92

03/26/1962 Richard Coles, rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way) 
03/26/1962 Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut 
03/26/1963 Paul De Lion, TV host (Cry of the Lion) 
03/26/1963 Rebecca Twigg, Seattle Wash, 79K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1984) 
03/26/1963 Susan Sulley, rocker (Human League-Human) 
03/26/1969 Beth Howell, Clinton Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America (1991) 
03/26/1970 Evan Richards, LA Calif, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone) 
03/26/1979 Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us) 
03/26/1986 Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988 
03/26/2228 James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/26/ 809 Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Mnster/saint, dies at about 66 
03/26/1258 Floris, the Guardian, son of count Floris IV, dies 
03/26/1350 Alfonso XI, King of Castili‰ & Le¢n, dies 
03/26/1638 Palamedes 'Stevens' Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30 
03/26/1657 Jacob van Eyck, blindly flautist, dies at 69 
03/26/1713 Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77 
03/26/1726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies 
03/26/1736 Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49 
03/26/1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 69 
03/26/1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71 
03/26/1827 Ludwig von Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 
03/26/1831 Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 
03/26/1837 Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 54 
03/26/1871 Fran‡ois-Joseph F‚tis, Belgian composer, dies at 87 
03/26/1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62 
03/26/1892 Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78 
03/26/1892 Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ 
03/26/1900 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 
03/26/1902 Cecil Rhodes, conqueror (Rhodesia), dies 
03/26/1909 Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56 
03/26/1918 Cesar Cui, composer, dies at 83 
03/26/1923 Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette R Bernard], actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies

03/26/1924 Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78 
03/26/1926 Georges Vezina, NHL hall of fame goalie, dies 
03/26/1926 Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies 
03/26/1932 Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25 
03/26/1945 David Lloyd George, British politician, dies 
03/26/1953 Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64 
03/26/1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70 
03/26/1957 Max Ophls, [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director, dies 
03/26/1959 Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies 
03/26/1962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64 
03/26/1969 Bruno Traven, writer (Sierra Madre), dies 
03/26/1969 Gnther Weisenborn, German/Agrgentine writer (That's Illeagal), dies

03/26/1973 George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80

03/26/1973 Noel Coward, actor (Surprise Package, Boom), dies at 73 
03/26/1973 Safford Cape, composer, dies at 67 
03/26/1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered 
03/26/1979 Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 
03/26/1982 Henri‰tte [AgaHM] de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies 
03/26/1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies 
03/26/1986 Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73 
03/26/1987 Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88 
03/26/1990 Roy 'Halston' Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68 
03/26/1991 Frans Dohmen, Dutch union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies 
03/26/1993 Luis Falco, Us choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50 
03/26/1994 Constantine Koukouchkine, Russ diplomat murdered in Algeria at 41 
03/26/1994 John Bor, violinist/painter, dies at 83 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/26/ 752 Stephen II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
03/26/1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier roman catholics-German emperor 
03/26/1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commerate anti-Jewish violence 
03/26/1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony 
03/26/1668 Bombay, India transferred to England 
03/26/1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands 
03/26/1790 Congress allows naturalization of alien free white persons 
03/26/1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vend‚e region of France 
03/26/1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine 
03/26/1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana 
03/26/1804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase 
03/26/1812 Earthquake hits Caracas; about 20,000 die 
03/26/1845 Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat 
03/26/1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid 
03/26/1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury 
03/26/1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch) 
03/26/1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves 
03/26/1871 Paris Commune founded 
03/26/1872 Largest Calif quake (100-mile line) 
03/26/1872 Thomas J Martin awarded patent for fire extinguisher 
03/26/1878 Hastings College of Law founded 
03/26/1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film 
03/26/1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask 
03/26/1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day

03/26/1900 1st edition The (Free) People 
03/26/1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam 
03/26/1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #561 Ingwelde 
03/26/1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick 
03/26/1910 William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US 
03/26/1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War 
03/26/1915 Vancouver Millionaires sweep Ottawa Senators in 3 for Stanley Cup 
03/26/1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary 
03/26/1917 Seat Metropolitans beat Mont Canadiens 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
03/26/1923 Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
03/26/1926 ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies 
03/26/1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA 
03/26/1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway 
03/26/1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty 
03/26/1931 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio 
03/26/1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies 
03/26/1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain 
03/26/1935 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1548 Palomaa 
03/26/1936 200' telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech 
03/26/1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska 
03/26/1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye 
03/26/1937 William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands) 
03/26/1942 1st 'Eichmann transport' to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps 
03/26/1942 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21 
03/26/1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Garbage 
03/26/1943 1st woman to recieve air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott) 
03/26/1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean 
03/26/1945 British premier Churchill looks out at the Rhine 
03/26/1945 De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34 
03/26/1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto 
03/26/1945 US 7th Army strikes Worms on the Rhine 
03/26/1949 Kentucky wins NCAA basketball championship 
03/26/1951 USAF flag approved 
03/26/1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio 
03/26/1953 Kansas wins NCAA basketball championship 
03/26/1953 Salk Polio vaccine announced 
03/26/1955 'Ballad of Davy Crockett,' becomes the #1 record in US 
03/26/1958 Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III 
03/26/1960 Iraq sentences 30 to death after attack on Pres Kassem 
03/26/1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg

03/26/1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio 
03/26/1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard goes into use 
03/26/1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched 
03/26/1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945 
03/26/1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark 
03/26/1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence 
03/26/1972 LA Lakers set NBA record of 69 wins in a season (69-13) 
03/26/1973 Soap 'Young & Restless' premieres 
03/26/1973 UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title 
03/26/1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president 
03/26/1976 Wings release 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' album 
03/26/1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record 'Less Than Zero' 
03/26/1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt 
03/26/1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) 
03/26/1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia 
03/26/1982 Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial 
03/26/1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release 'Ebony & Ivory' in the UK 
03/26/1982 Soap opera 'Capitol' premieres 
03/26/1985 57th Academy Awards, Amadeus wins 8 
03/26/1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses 
03/26/1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit 
03/26/1989 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins 
03/26/1991 63rd Academy Awards: Kathy Bates, Jeremy Irons & Dance with Wolves 
03/26/1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC 
03/26/1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-3

03/26/1992 Mike Tyson is sentenced to 10 years for rape 
03/26/1992 NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 year

03/26/1993 Daytime Emmy Awards 
03/26/1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec) 
03/26/1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60

03/26/1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26) 
03/26/1994 Picture released showing 1st moon of an Asteroid (Ida) 
03/26/1994 Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo 
  
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