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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, 484,152 hours 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
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
- 1958 –The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
- 1979 –Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- 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?
- 1914 –William Westmoreland, American military commander (d. 2005)
- 1935 –Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian statesman
- 1956 –Charly McClain, American singer
- 1964 –Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 –Suvi Koponen, Finnish model
Who died on March 26?
- 1535 –Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
- 1697 –Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (b. 1640)
- 1885 –Anson Stager, American telegraphist (b. 1825)
- 1920 –William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
- 2008 –Heath Benedict, American football player (b. 1983)
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