March 26th, 1957

Born on March 26th, 1957

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What happened on March 26th?

March 26th, 2010

An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.

March 26th, 1999

A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.

March 26th, 1997

Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.

March 26th, 1979

With the signing of a peace treaty in Washington, D.C., Egypt became the first Arab country officially to recognize Israel.

March 26th, 1975

The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.

March 26th, 1953

Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.

March 26th, 1939

Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.

March 26th, 1917

First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.

March 26th, 1913

First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.

March 26th, 1896

An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.

March 26th, 1885

Perceiving that the Canadian government was failing to protect their rights, the Métis people led by Louis Riel began the North-West Rebellion.

March 26th, 1873

A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning the Aceh War.

March 26th, 1812

The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry (pictured), who approved the legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.

March 26th, 1697

The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.

March 26th, 1484

William Caxton (pictured) printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 26th

Born on March 26th, 1957

67

Shirin Neshat

Iranian artist, film director, and photographer

*March 26th, 1957, Qazvin

67

Fiona Bruce

British Conservative politician (born 1957)

*March 26th, 1957, Wick

67

Paul Morley

English music journalist, musician, music executive

*March 26th, 1957, Stockport

67

Sandra Gidley

British politician (born 1957)

*March 26th, 1957, Rossett

67

Chip Thomson

American businessman

*March 26th, 1957, New Orleans

67

Irina Margareta Nistor

Romanian translator and film critic

*March 26th, 1957, Bucharest

67

Leeza Gibbons

American talk show host

*March 26th, 1957, Hartsville

67

Manfred Wolf

German ice hockey player

*March 26th, 1957, Aurora

67

Aktan Abdykalykov

Kyrgyz screenwriter and film director

*March 26th, 1957, Kyrgyzstan

67

Humberto Bruni Lamanna

Venezuelan classical guitarist

*March 26th, 1957, Caracas

67

Željko Knapić

Athletics competitor

*March 26th, 1957, Čakovec

67

Shobana Jeyasingh

Indian-born British choreographer

*March 26th, 1957, Chennai

67

Mary A. Morrissey

American politician

*March 26th, 1957, Bennington

67

Lilah Yassin

Malaysian politician

*March 26th, 1957, Negeri Sembilan

67

Aleksei Belenkov

Russian footballer

*March 26th, 1957, Balashikha

67

Lyubomir Lyubenov

Canoe racer

*March 26th, 1957, Plovdiv

67

Debbie Esser

American female track and field hurdler

*March 26th, 1957, Iowa

67

Viktor Yelensky

Ukrainian scientist, expert in religious studies, member of Ukrainian Parliament of the 8th convocation

*March 26th, 1957, Chadan

67

Park Kwang-on

South Korean politician

*March 26th, 1957, Haenam County

67

Jeff Clark

American surfer

*March 26th, 1957, Redwood City

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 26th?

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

82

James Caan

American actor (1940–2022)

*March 26th, 1940, The Bronx †July 6th, 2022, Los Angeles

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

84

Nancy Pelosi

American politician (born 1940)

*March 26th, 1940, Baltimore

68

Pep Anton Muñoz

Spanish actor

*March 26th, 1956, Barcelona

66

Alar Karis

President of Estonia

*March 26th, 1958, Tartu

31

Suci Rizky Andini

Indonesia badminton player

*March 26th, 1993, Bandung City

71

Lincoln Chafee

American politician and former United States Senator from Rhode Island

*March 26th, 1953, Providence

60

Michael Frontzeck

German association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1964, Mönchengladbach

52

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

75

Uwe Beckmeyer

German politician

*March 26th, 1949, Bremerhaven

46

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

60

Maria Miller

British politician

*March 26th, 1964, Wolverhampton

83

Richard Dawkins

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

*March 26th, 1941, Nairobi

37

Nic Strange

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1987, Bangor

51

Larry Page

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*March 26th, 1973, East Lansing

54

Martin McDonagh

British-Irish filmmaker and playwright

*March 26th, 1970, London

73

Carl Wieman

Nobel prize winning US physicist

*March 26th, 1951, Corvallis

27

Ruthvika Shivani

Indian badminton player

*March 26th, 1997, Vijayawada

69

Ingo Wolf

German politician

*March 26th, 1955, Brunswick

Same year
Born in 1957

66

Julian Cope

Welsh musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator

*October 21st, 1957, Deri

66

John Kassir

American actor and comedian

*October 24th, 1957, Baltimore

67

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*February 17th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Stephen Morris

British drummer

*October 28th, 1957, Macclesfield

66

Kristin Clemet

Norwegian politician

*April 20th, 1957, Harstad Municipality

54

Osama bin Laden

Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)

*March 10th, 1957, Riyadh †May 2nd, 2011, Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

66

Dagfinn Høybråten

Norwegian politician

*December 2nd, 1957, Oslo

67

Peter Aude

Danish actor

*January 19th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Klaus Augenthaler

German association football player and manager

*September 26th, 1957, Fürstenzell

66

Frances McDormand

American actress

*June 23rd, 1957, Gibson City

41

Adrian Borland

English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer (1957–1999)

*December 6th, 1957, London †April 26th, 1999, Wimbledon

66

Stephen Fry

British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

*August 24th, 1957, Hampstead

67

Henning Krautmacher

German singer and actor

*March 5th, 1957, Leverkusen

60

Alain Defossé

French writer and translator (1957-2017)

*February 11th, 1957, Nantes †May 14th, 2017, 19th arrondissement of Paris

67

Nick Hornby

English novelist

*April 17th, 1957, Redhill

67

Mari Maurstad

Norwegian actress

*March 17th, 1957, Oslo

67

Timothy Spall

English actor

*February 27th, 1957, London

66

Matthias Klinghardt

German Protestant theologian

*August 24th, 1957, Waldshut-Tiengen

66

Christian Michelides

Austrian psychotherapist

*July 19th, 1957, Graz

66

Daniel Day-Lewis

British-Irish actor

*April 29th, 1957, Kensington

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1957 is a normal year and no leap year.

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