March 26th, 1959

Born on March 26th, 1959

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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, 1959

65

Axel Berg

German politician

*March 26th, 1959, Stuttgart

65

Jozef Lieckens

Belgian cyclist

*March 26th, 1959, Nijlen

65

Phạm Bình Minh

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam

*March 26th, 1959, Nam Định

65

Miller Puckette

American academic

*March 26th, 1959, Chattanooga

65

Raimundo Amador

Spanish guitarist

*March 26th, 1959, Seville

65

Siegfried Roch

German handball player

*March 26th, 1959, Wunsiedel

65

Tom Carson

Scottish footballer and manager (born 1959)

*March 26th, 1959, Alexandria

65

Shin Jae-heum

South Korean footballer

*March 26th, 1959, South Korea

65

Marshall Burke

Scottish footballer (born 1959)

*March 26th, 1959, Glasgow

65

Christer Gullstrand

Swedish athletics competitor

*March 26th, 1959, Linköping

65

Chris Whitten

British session drummer

*March 26th, 1959, Leeds

65

Rodolphe Modin

French rugby union footballer

*March 26th, 1959, Gennevilliers

65

Michael Kantaras

American trans man

*March 26th, 1959, Youngstown

65

William Judson

American football player (born 1959)

*March 26th, 1959, Detroit

65

István Kassai

Hungarian musician

*March 26th, 1959, Budapest

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Who's birthday is on March 26th?

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

67

Shirin Neshat

Iranian artist, film director, and photographer

*March 26th, 1957, Qazvin

82

James Caan

American actor (1940–2022)

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

84

Nancy Pelosi

American politician (born 1940)

*March 26th, 1940, Baltimore

60

Michael Frontzeck

German association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1964, Mönchengladbach

66

Alar Karis

President of Estonia

*March 26th, 1958, Tartu

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

31

Suci Rizky Andini

Indonesia badminton player

*March 26th, 1993, Bandung City

52

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

60

Maria Miller

British politician

*March 26th, 1964, Wolverhampton

46

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

71

Lincoln Chafee

American politician and former United States Senator from Rhode Island

*March 26th, 1953, Providence

61

Hermann Färber

German politician

*March 26th, 1963, Böhmenkirch

75

Uwe Beckmeyer

German politician

*March 26th, 1949, Bremerhaven

37

Nic Strange

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1987, Bangor

54

Martin McDonagh

British-Irish filmmaker and playwright

*March 26th, 1970, London

51

Larry Page

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*March 26th, 1973, East Lansing

83

Richard Dawkins

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

*March 26th, 1941, Nairobi

68

Pep Anton Muñoz

Spanish actor

*March 26th, 1956, Barcelona

64

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

American politician, businessman and diplomat (born 1960)

*March 26th, 1960, Palo Alto

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64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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