26 Mairch

The 26t o Mairch is the 85t day o the year (86t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 280 days ti come.

Events

Beuk o Mormon

• 1511 - A yirdquauk in the Balkans kills an estimatit 6,000 fowk.
• 1707 - The Acts o Union 1707 become law, makkin Ingland an Scotland unitit.
• 1812 - Caracas, Venezuela is hit bi a yirdquauk, killin 12,000 fowk.
• 1830 - The Beuk o Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
• 1881 - Romanie declares itself a kinrick.
• 1971 - East Pakistan (Bangladesh) declares unthirldom frae Pakistan, stairtin a war o unthirldom.
• 1979 - Israel an Egyp agree a Peace Treaty.
• 2000 - Vladimir Putin is electit Preses o Roushie.
• 2000 - Greece jyns the Schengen Area.
• 2006 - Burma's militar govrenment moves the national capital frae Rangoon tae Naypyidaw.
• 2006 - Ban o Smokin in aw public places in Scotland.
• 2015 - King Richard III o Ingland is reburied at Leicester Cathedral.

Births

Richard Dawkins

• 1031 - Malcolm III o Scotland (d. 1093)
• 1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
• 1875 - Syngman Rhee, Preses o Sooth Korea (d. 1965)
• 1911 - Tennessee Williams, American writer an playwricht (d. 1983)
• 1925 - Pierre Boulez, French componer an muisicker (d. 2016)
• 1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Unitit States Supreme Coort Juistice
• 1931 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1934 - Alan Arkin, American actor
• 1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politeecian
• 1938 - Anthony James Leggett, Inglis-American pheesicist
• 1940 - James Caan, American actor
• 1940 - Nancy Pelosi, American politeecian
• 1941 - Richard Dawkins, Inglis evolutionary biologist
• 1944 - Diana Ross, American sangster
• 1948 - Steven Tyler, American sangster an muisicker
• 1951 - Carl Wieman, American pheesicist
• 1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American politeecian
• 1960 - Jennifer Grey, American actress
• 1961 - William Hague, Inglis politeecian
• 1973 - Larry Page, co-founder o Google
• 1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spainyie fitbawer
• 1985 - Keira Knightley, Inglis actress
• 1987 - Steven Fletcher, Scots fitbawer
• 1990 - Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian fitbawer (d. 2016)

Daiths

• 1797 - James Hutton, Scots geologist (b. 1726)
• 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German componer (b. 1770)
• 1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
• 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, Breetish-born Sooth African businessman, minin magnate, an politeecian (b. 1853)
• 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
• 1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1863)
• 1959 - Raymond Chandler, Breetish-American novelist an screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1973 - Noel Coward, Inglis componer an playwricht (b. 1899)
• 2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1912)
• 2015 - Tomas Tranströmer, Swadish poet (b. 1931)

Halidays

• Independence Day (Bangladesh)
• Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday (Zoroastrianism)
• Day o Democracy (Mali)
• Prince Kuhio Day (Hawaii)