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Events from History on March 26

1027 : John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
1147 : Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 : Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
1150 : Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a
1526 : King Fran‡ois I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 : Lbeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1636 : University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 : England takes control of Bombay India
1692 : King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 : 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 : Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 : Pro-royalist uprising in Vend‚e region of France
1799 : Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 : Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 : Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1812 : Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die
1821 : Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1824 : 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
1839 : 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 : Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 : Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1856 : NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won
1859 : 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 : Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 : Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 : Paris Commune founded
1872 : 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 : Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 : Hastings College of Law founded
1878 : Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1885 : Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1885 : Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask
1886 : 1st cremation in England
1889 : Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! S Afr v England
1889 : Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v S Africa at Newlands
1889 : South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England
1895 : King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900 : 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)
1903 : American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 : August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm
1910 : US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1910 : William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
1913 : Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913 : Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River
1913 : reach flood stage simultaneously
1915 : Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators
1916 : Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 : Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens
1923 : Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 : Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London
1926 : ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1926 : The 1st 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 : "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of 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 : Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 : Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1937 : William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 : NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 : Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1942 : 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 : 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 : 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
1942 : German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1943 : 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
1943 : Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1943 : Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
1944 : 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 : -29] Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 : British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 : Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 : Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 : Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 : US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
1945 : Venray soccer team forms
1949 : 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Kentucky beats Okla State 46-36
1951 : USAF flag approved
1952 : 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
1952 : F Drrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1953 : Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1953 : Salk Polio vaccine announced
1954 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 : "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US
1956 : Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 : Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 : 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
1958 : Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
1958 : US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1959 : Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124 days
1960 : Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem
1960 : Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1962 : Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
1964 : "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1967 : 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 : Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 : Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 : Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
1969 : Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 : "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 : 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 : Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 : Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral
1970 : liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 : "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 : "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 : #5195 Kaendler, #5491 Kaulbach, #5492 Thoma, #5698 Nolde,
1971 : #6202 Georgemiley, #6257 Thorvaldsen, #6351 Neumann, #6429 Brancusi,
1971 : #6674 Cezanne, 6752 Ashley, 7367 Giotto, 7908, 8057, 8123, 8124 & 8238
1971 : Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 : "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 perfs
1973 : 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76
1973 : Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
1973 : Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1974 : Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
1975 : "Tommy" premieres in London
1976 : AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 : Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1977 : Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1979 : 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64
1979 : Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 : Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 : Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo
1979 : but Giant players reject it
1980 : Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 : Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 : Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 : Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 : Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 : Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 : Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 : August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in NYC
1987 : Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 : NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 : Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 : Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1989 : 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1990 : 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1991 : Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
1991 : Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London
1991 : Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 : Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1994 : Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1994 : Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
1994 : Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
1994 : Picture released showing 1st moon of an Asteroid (Ida)
1994 : Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
1994 : Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
1995 : "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
1995 : "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1995 : 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 : Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1997 : "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC

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