About March 26
March 26, 2023 is the 85th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 321 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.
- 1484 –William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables.
- 1636 –Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- 1812 –An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1881 –Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
- 1934 –The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 1958 –The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
- 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
- 1971 –East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
- 1974 –Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
- 1975 –The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
- 1976 –Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
- 1979 –Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- 1995 –The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
- 1997 –Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides.
- 1998 –Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
- 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.
- 2001 –World Championship Wrestling is purchased by the World Wrestling Federation.
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