Historical Events on March 26

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• 127 Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens (until 141 AD)
• 685 Cuthbert (later Saint Cuthbert) is consecrated Bishop of Lindisfarne by Archbishop Theodore at York
• 1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Salian dynasty

• 1147 Jewish community in Cologne fasts to commemorate anti-Jewish violence

• 1534 Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea
• 1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru
• 1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
• 1663 The Quebec Seminary established by François de Montmorency-Laval, First Bishop of New France. North America's first institution of higher learning. [1]
• 1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
• 1790 US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
• 1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
• 1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
• 1804 Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase

• 1821 Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna
• 1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York
• 1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta on the river Thames, England
• 1845 Joseph Francis from NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
• 1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid
• 1852 Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
• 1856 New South Wales's first 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW wins
• 1859 1st supposed sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury; it doesn't exist
• 1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
• 1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
• 1871 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris who form the short lived Paris Commune government
• 1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
• 1872 Thomas J. Martin, of Alabama, receives a U.S. patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system
• 1878 Hastings College of Law founded in San Francisco, California
• 1881 Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again
• 1885 1st modern, legal cremation held in England at Woking, Surrey [1]

• 1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
• 1889 English cricketer Johnny Briggs takes 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) at Newlands as South Africa are all out for 47 with Bernard Tancred not out on 26, then follow-on and are again all out for 43
• 1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
• 1898 Sabi Game Reserve opens in South Africa, the world's 1st officially designated game reserve; now part of Kruger National Park
• 1898 Sabie Game Reserve proclaimed in the Transvaal - the beginnings of Kruger National Park
• 1900 1st edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, 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 forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
• 1910 William H. Lewis appointed US Assistant Attorney General
• 1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
• 1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
• 1915 Stanley Cup Final, Denman Arena, Vancouver, BC: Barney Stanley scores 5 goals as Vancouver Millionaires beat Ottawa Senators, 12-3 for a 3-0 sweep of first non-challenge series; Vancouver first PCHA champions
• 1917 British win a battle against Turks at Gaza
• 1917 Stanley Cup Final, Seattle Ice Arena, Seattle, WA: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 9-1 for a 3-1 series victory; first US team to win SC
• 1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan" opens in London
• 1926 ACD de Graeff appointed governor general of Dutch East Indies
• 1926 First 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 RJ Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss armament of Supermarine 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 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye
• 1937 William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)

• 1942 Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pennsylvania, kills 21

• 1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, naval battle between American navy and Japanese Imperial forces in the Pacific Ocean, ends inconclusively
• 1943 Elsie S. Ott is 1st woman to be awarded US Air Force Medal
• 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen, Germany

• 1945 Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
• 1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
• 1945 Venray soccer team forms

• 1953 "Ugetsu", Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō and Kinuyo Tanaka, is released

• 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
• 1955 "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" version recorded by Bill Hayes becomes the #1 record in US
• 1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms
• 1956 Red Buttons stars as an angel on TV anthology series "Studio One" episode "Tale of St. Emergency"

• 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris
• 1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
• 1959 Test debut for Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad v West Indies, aged 15 years
• 1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim
• 1960 Orioles-Reds series planned for Havana is moved to Miami
• 1960 USC captures NCAA swimming title
• 1962 US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legistature
• 1966 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago
• 1967 21st Tony Awards: "The Homecoming" (play) & "Cabaret" (musical) win

• 1969 "Marcus Welby, M.D.", starring Robert Young and James Brolin debuts as a TV movie on ABC-TV, prior to becoming a weekly series
• 1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard in the Netherlands is commissioned
• 1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
• 1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
• 1970 Folk singer Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl and serves 3 months in prison; granted a presidential pardon in 1981
• 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made San Francisco city landmark
• 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" starring William Conrad as a private detective premieres on CBS-TV; airs for 5 seasons

• 1972 LA Lakers break NBA wins record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13), record will stand for 24 years
• 1972 William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1973 Susan Shaw is first woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
• 1973 TV soap opera "The Young & the Restless" premieres on CBS

• 1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president

• 1975 The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
• 1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses
• 1976 AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M

• 1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
• 1977 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beat Louisiana State University 68-55 in Minneapolis

• 1977 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson

• 1979 Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game winning streak
• 1979 MLB San Diego Padres & San Francisco 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 Soviet space mission Soyuz T-4 lands
• 1982 Groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial

• 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
• 1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it fails to reach orbit
• 1987 National Federation of State High School Associations adopt the college 3 point shot (21 feet)
• 1988 American Janet Evans swims 1,500m freestyle female world record 15:52.10 in the USA Spring Nationals in Orlando, Florida

• 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

• 1992 NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years

• 1994 German Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60) in Calgary, Alberta
• 1994 German Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26) in Calgary, Alberta
• 1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
• 1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Nanci Bowen wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Susie Redman; her sole LPGA Tour victory
• 1995 The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.

• 1996 The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia
• 1997 NHL announces Anaheim Mighty Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 season 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.

• 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 Burma's military junta officially names Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, the new capital (Yangon previous capital)
• 2006 In Scotland the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force

• 2012 Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal

• 2014 Taavi Rõivas becomes Prime Minister of Estonia

• 2017 Carrie Lam is first woman elected to lead Hong Kong by Beijing-influenced electoral commission
• 2017 Mass protests in Chile over country's privatised pension system

• 2018 US Federal Trade Commission confirms it will investigate Facebook over privacy concerns
• 2018 US soldier receives world's first penis and scrotum transplant at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
• 2018 US, European Union and Ukraine expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to Russian use of nerve gas in UK
• 2019 Charges of staging fake racist and homophobic attack dropped against Justin Smollett by Chicago prosecutors
• 2019 European Parliament votes for changes to copyright laws, making internet companies responsible for copyright infringements
• 2019 Maker of Oxyconti, Purdue Pharma agrees to pay Oklahoma $270 million settlement ahead of trial accusing the company of fueling the opioid epidemic

• 2019 State of emergency declared in Rockland County, New York, due to measles epidemic with unvaccinated children banned from public spaces for 30 days after 153 cases

• 2020 American cases of COVID-19 exceed all other countries on this date, with 81,578 cases and 1,180 deaths (New York Times)
• 2020 Christchurch mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant pleads guilty to all 51 murders in New Zealand
• 2020 Record number of Americans file for unemployment - 3.3 million according to US Department of Labor

• 2023 WPL Cricket Final, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai: Mumbai Indians win inaugural tournament beating Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets with 3 balls to spare; Player of the match: Nat Sciver-Brunt (Mumbai Indians) 60no

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