Today in History
26th March
Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
Elisabeth of Nassau
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sarah Bernhardt
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| 1026 Conrad II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XIX. | ||
| 1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor |
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| 1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence | ||
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Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise |
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| 1479 Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33) son of Ivan III was born | ||
| 1526 King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France | ||
| 1534 Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea | ||
| 1577 Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon was born | ||
| 1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony | ||
| 1668 England takes control of Bombay India | ||
| 1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands | ||
| 1780 The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, was published. | ||
| 1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency | Elisabeth of Nassau |
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| 1793 The Holy Roman Emperor formally declared war on 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 | ||
| 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer, died in Vienna. One of the great composers in the history of Western music, he composed many of his finest works after he had become totally deaf. | ||
| 1828 Austrian composer Franz Schubert gave his only public concert, in Vienna. | ||
| 1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta | ||
| 1845 Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat | ||
| 1854 Charles III, duke of Parma, was attacked by an assassin and died the next day. | ||
| 1856 David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda was born |
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| 1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves | ||
| 1863 Henry Royce, founder (Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884) was born | ||
| 1868 Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36) was born | ||
| 1871 The Paris Commune, an insurrection of Paris against the French government, was formally set up. | ||
| 1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California | ||
| 1872 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher | ||
| 1878 Hastings College of Law founded | ||
| 1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film | ||
| 1892 Walt Whitman, U.S. poet and essayist, died. He became a revolutionary figure in American literature after the publication of his "Leaves of Grass." | ||
| 1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day | ||
| 1898 The world's first game reserve, the Sabi Game reserve, was designated in South Africa. | Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| 1902 Cecil Rhodes, British-born statesman and financier, died. He became enormously wealthy from his commercial exploitation of the British African empire. | ||
| 1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick | ||
| 1913 The Bulgarians took Adrianople in the Balkan War. | ||
| 1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously | ||
| 1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary | ||
| 1917 At the start of the battle of Gaza, the British cavalry under Murray withdrew when 17,000 Turks blocked their advance. | ||
| 1923 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, died. The greatest "tragedienne" of her day, she had her leg amputated in 1915 but continued her acting career. | ||
| 1925 Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip) was born | ||
| 1926 ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies |
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| 1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America | ||
| 1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA | ||
| 1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms | ||
| 1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty | ||
| 1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies | ||
| 1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain | ||
| 1936 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio | ||
| 1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska | ||
| 1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye | ||
| 1940 Michael Savage, New Zealand statesman and prime minister, died. He led the country into World War II but died in office and was succeeded by Peter Fraser. | ||
| 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 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean | ||
| 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen | ||
| 1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) | ||
| 1945 Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine | ||
| 1945 The battle of Iwo Jima ended; about 22,000 Japanese troops were killed or captured in the fighting and more than 4,500 U.S. troops were killed. | ||
| 1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto | ||
| 1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms | ||
| 1945 David Lloyd George, British statesman and Liberal prime minister, died; he also negotiated Irish independence in 1921. | ||
| 1945 The Japanese attempted to reinforce a garrison at Kiska in the Aleutians but were intercepted by a U.S. naval force at the battle of Komandorski Islands. | ||
| 1953 Salk Polio vaccine announced | ||
| 1957 Edouard Herriot, French statesman and twice prime minister, died. He was imprisoned by the Germans in 1942 for protesting against the French collaborationist regime in Vichy. |
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| 1959 Raymond Chandler, U.S. crime writer, died. Creator of the private detective character Philip Marlowe in his novels including, "The Big Sleep" and "Farewell My Lovely." | ||
| 1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem | ||
| 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio | ||
| 1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945 | ||
| 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark | ||
| 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared East Pakistan the independent republic of Bangladesh. | ||
| 1973 President Anwar Sadat of Egypt took over the premiership, saying "the stage of total confrontation (with Israel) has become inevitable." | ||
| 1973 Women were allowed on to the floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time. | Sarah Bernhardt |
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| 1973 English playwright Noel Coward died; he produced several films based on his own scripts, including "In Which We Serve" and "Brief Encounter." | ||
| 1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president | ||
| 1979 In a ceremony at the White House, President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel signed a peace treaty ending 30 years of war between the two countries. | ||
| 1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia | ||
| 1981 Soyuz T-4 lands | ||
| 1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy | ||
| 1989 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins | ||
| 1992 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison for rape. | ||
| 1996 Former U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie died after a heart attack. | ||
| 1996 The International Monetary Fund approved a $10.2 billion loan for Russia to help the country further transform its economy. | ||
| 1997 The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found after killing themselves in a mass suicide; they said they hoped they would join aliens following the Hale Bopp comet. |
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