About March 26
March 26, 2024 is the 86th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 309 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 26
- 1026 –Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1552 –Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
- 1636 –Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- 1808 –Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
- 1812 –An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1830 –The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
- 1839 –The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
- 1881 –Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
- 1913 –Balkan War: Bulgarian forces invade Adrianople.
- 1917 –World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
- 1934 –The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
- 1958 –The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
- 1967 –Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
- 1979 –Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- 1982 –A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
- 1995 –The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
- 1999 –A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- 1999 –The “Melissa worm” infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
- 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 demonstration.
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