March 26th, 1968

Born on March 26th, 1968

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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, 1968

56

Kirsten Barnes

Canadian rower

*March 26th, 1968, London

56

Kenny Chesney

American country musician

*March 26th, 1968, Knoxville

56

James Iha

American rock musician

*March 26th, 1968, Chicago

56

Patrick Kühl

German swimmer

*March 26th, 1968, Güstrow

56

Abdourahmane Sarr

Senegalese economist

*March 26th, 1968, Paris

56

Miloš Joksić

Serbian association football coach

*March 26th, 1968, Belgrade

56

Liza da Costa

Portuguese singer

*March 26th, 1968, Portugal

56

Laurent Brochard

French cyclist

*March 26th, 1968, Le Mans

37

Alessio Galletti

Road bicycle racer

*March 26th, 1968, Pisa †June 15th, 2005, Oviedo

56

Ed Kaminski

American javelin thrower

*March 26th, 1968, Kansas City

56

Shane Reynolds

American baseball player

*March 26th, 1968, Bastrop

56

Nick Sweeney

Athletics competitor

*March 26th, 1968, Dublin

56

Melissa Michaelsen

American child actress and public speaker

*March 26th, 1968, Manhattan

56

Maher Berakdar

Syrian footballer

*March 26th, 1968, Syria

56

José Vizcaíno

Baseball player

*March 26th, 1968, San Cristóbal

56

Ian Hutchings

Professional golfer

*March 26th, 1968, Harare

56

Martijn Krabbé

Dutch radio personality and television presenter

*March 26th, 1968, Amsterdam

56

James Grimes

Association football player

*March 26th, 1968, London

56

Anikó Kántor

Hungarian handball player

*March 26th, 1968, Budapest

56

Freddie Joe Farnsworth

Actor

*March 26th, 1968, Muncie

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

52

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

54

Martin McDonagh

British-Irish filmmaker and playwright

*March 26th, 1970, London

60

Michael Frontzeck

German association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1964, Mönchengladbach

31

Suci Rizky Andini

Indonesia badminton player

*March 26th, 1993, Bandung City

51

Larry Page

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*March 26th, 1973, East Lansing

46

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

60

Maria Miller

British politician

*March 26th, 1964, Wolverhampton

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

84

Nancy Pelosi

American politician (born 1940)

*March 26th, 1940, Baltimore

37

Nic Strange

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1987, Bangor

49

Erick Morillo

American DJ, music producer, and record label owner

*March 26th, 1971, New York City †September 1st, 2020, Miami Beach

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

27

Ruthvika Shivani

Indian badminton player

*March 26th, 1997, Vijayawada

52

Leslie Mann

American actress

*March 26th, 1972, San Francisco

61

Hermann Färber

German politician

*March 26th, 1963, Böhmenkirch

47

Morgan De Sanctis

Italian association football player

*March 26th, 1977, Guardiagrele

25

Fabio Caponio

Italian badminton player

*March 26th, 1999, Santeramo in Colle

40

Luca James Lee

Australian actor

*March 26th, 1984, Subiaco

55

Reginald D. Hunter

American stand-up comedian based in the United Kingdom

*March 26th, 1969, Albany

Same year
Born in 1968

55

Casper Van Dien

American actor

*December 18th, 1968, Milton

55

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Danish actress

*November 22nd, 1968, Copenhagen

55

Peter Runggaldier

Italian alpine skier

*December 29th, 1968, Brixen

55

Chris Hunt

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1968, Bolton

55

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

56

Minarti Timur

Indonesian badminton player, coach

*March 24th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

*March 30th, 1968, Charlemagne

56

Rexy Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 9th, 1968, Ternate Island

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

55

Darren Le Tissier

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1968, Bailiwick of Guernsey

56

Árni Þór Hallgrímsson

Badminton player

*March 10th, 1968, Akranes

55

Marine Le Pen

French politician (born 1968)

*August 5th, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine

56

Monica Mæland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*February 6th, 1968, Bergen

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

55

Ralph Brinkhaus

German politician

*June 15th, 1968, Wiedenbrück

55

Kylie Minogue

Australian singer and actress (born 1968)

*May 28th, 1968, Melbourne

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Leap year

Yes: 1968 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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