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 
 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 
 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)

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Category:Days o the year