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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 13, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,523,520 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 ‘octacontahexagon’ day.
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 309 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 4,113 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 26 Historical Events
- 1484 –William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables.
- 1552 –Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
- 1808 –Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
- 1839 –The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
- 1913 –Balkan War: Bulgarian forces invade Adrianople.
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
- 1967 –Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
- 1975 –The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
- 1976 –Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
- 2001 –World Championship Wrestling is purchased by the World Wrestling Federation.
Who were born on March 26?
- 1893 –Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
- 1905 –Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)
- 1913 –Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist and classical scholar (d. 2010)
- 1940 –Nancy Pelosi, American politician
- 1945 –Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)
- 1946 –Alain Madelin, French politician
- 1949 –Patrick Süskind, German writer
- 1959 –Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent
- 1963 –Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
- 1976 –Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
Who died on March 26?
- 1130 –King Sigurd I of Norway (b. c. 1090)
- 1546 –Thomas Elyot, English diplomat
- 1827 –Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
- 1942 –Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874)
- 1948 –Emile St. Godard, Canadian dog sled racer (b. 1905)
- 1973 –Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
- 1984 –Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
- 1987 –Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
- 2006 –Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
- 2008 –Heath Benedict, American football player (b. 1983)
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