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Birthday March 26, 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician & astronomer & author |
Birthday March 26, 1850 Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward) |
Birthday March 26, 1858 Jane Delano, nurse & teacher |
Birthday March 26, 1859 A.E. Housman, England - poet (Shropshire Lad) |
Birthday March 26, 1874 Robert Frost, poet (Mending Wall & Road Not Taken) SF |
Birthday March 26, 1899 James B. Connant, Yale pres |
Birthday March 26, 1911 Tennessee Williams, (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Columbus Miss |
Birthday March 26, 1914 William Westmoreland, army general |
Birthday March 26, 1924 Bob Elliott, Comedian (Bob & Ray) |
Birthday March 26, 1925 Pierre Boulez, France, composer |
Birthday March 26, 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court justice |
Birthday March 26, 1930 Gregory Corso, Beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man) |
Birthday March 26, 1931 Leonard Nimoy, (Spock) |
Birthday March 26, 1934 Alan Arkin, Actor |
Birthday March 26, 1934 Gino Cappelletti, AFL running back |
Birthday March 26, 1939 James Caan, Actor (Brian's Song) |
Birthday March 26, 1942 Erica Jong, NYC. author (Fear of Flying) |
Birthday March 26, 1943 Robert Woodward, reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes) |
Birthday March 26, 1944 Diana Ross, (Lady Sings the Blues), Detroit Mich, Supremes |
Birthday March 26, 1948 Steve Tyler, Rock singer |
Birthday March 26, 1949 Vicki Lawrence, California (Carol Burnette show, Mama's Family) |
Birthday March 26, 1950 Teddy Pendergrass, singer |
History March 26, 1668 Bombay - India transferred to England |
History March 26, 1776 South Carolina approves new constitution |
History March 26, 1804 Jefferson presented with a mammoth loaf of bread |
History March 26, 1804 Orleans territoy organized in La Purchase |
History March 26, 1827 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna |
History March 26, 1832 The steamboat Yellowstone heads for Montana |
History March 26, 1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster - precusor of bandaid |
History March 26, 1864 McPherson takes over the Army of the Tennessee |
History March 26, 1872 Deadly earthquake hits California |
History March 26, 1878 Hastings College of Law founded |
History March 26, 1885 Eastman Film Company manufactured 1st coml motion picture film |
History March 26, 1892 Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden NJ |
History March 26, 1917 First Battle of Gaza |
History March 26, 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel published |
History March 26, 1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City - Tx - erect statue of Popeye |
History March 26, 1941 Naval warfare gets new weapon |
History March 26, 1950 McCarthy charges that Owen Lattimore is a Soviet spy |
History March 26, 1951 USAF flag approved |
History March 26, 1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio |
History March 26, 1953 Salk announces polio vaccine |
History March 26, 1955 Black music gets whitewashed, as Georgia Gibbs hits the pop charts with The Wallflower (Dance With Me, Henry) |
History March 26, 1958 Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III |
History March 26, 1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg |
History March 26, 1969 Antiwar demonstration in Washington |
History March 26, 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark |
History March 26, 1971 E Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh |
History March 26, 1975 Hue falls to the communists |
History March 26, 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt |
History March 26, 1979 Michigan State defeats Indiana State in NCAA championship |
History March 26, 1982 Groundbreaking in Wash DC for Vietnam Vet Memorial |
History March 26, 1987 Torture chamber uncovered in Philadelphia |
History March 26, 1997 Heaven's Gate cult members found dead |
History March 26, 2000 American Beauty tops Academy Awards |
History March 26, 2008 Ford sells Jaguar and Land Rover to India's Tata |