What are the important events that happened on March 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 26 is the 85th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 13, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,049,120 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontapentagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac 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 328 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,478 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 26 Historical Events
- 1636 –Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- 1812 –An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
- 1975 –The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
- 1976 –Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
- 1982 –A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
- 1995 –The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
- 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.
Who were born on March 26?
- 1749 –William Blount, American statesman (d. 1800)
- 1871 –Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
- 1886 –Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
- 1940 –James Caan, American actor
- 1945 –Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)
- 1948 –Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra)
- 1963 –Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
- 1975 –Juvenile, American rapper
- 1979 –Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
- 2007 –Prince Moritz of Hesse, son of Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse
Who died on March 26?
- 1649 –John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1679 –Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
- 1885 –Anson Stager, American telegraphist (b. 1825)
- 1905 –Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
- 1959 –Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
- 1987 –Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
- 1992 –Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
- 1995 –Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A) (b. 1963)
- 1996 –Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Frederick Rotimi Williams Nigerian politician and jurist (b. 1920)
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