March 26th, 1979

Born on March 26th, 1979

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What happened on March 26th, 1979?

March 26th, 1979

An Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 10.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interflug

March 26th, 1979

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt–Israel_peace_treaty

What else 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, 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.

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

Born on March 26th, 1979

45

Juliana Paes

Brazilian actress

*March 26th, 1979, Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro

45

Pavol Novák

Slovak biathlete

*March 26th, 1979, Banská Bystrica

45

Hiromi Uehara

Japanese-born jazz composer and pianist (1979-)

*March 26th, 1979, Hamamatsu

45

Manuel Rubey

Austrian singer and actor

*March 26th, 1979, Vienna

45

Nacho Novo

Spanish footballer

*March 26th, 1979, Ferrol

45

Pierre Womé

Cameroonian footballer

*March 26th, 1979, Douala

45

Mila Islam

Bangladeshi musician

*March 26th, 1979, Chittagong

45

Maureen Stolt

American curler

*March 26th, 1979, Saskatoon

45

Anthony Pateras

Australian musician, composer

*March 26th, 1979, Melbourne

45

Roisin Conaty

English comedian

*March 26th, 1979, London Borough of Camden

45

Csaba Bernáth

Association football player

*March 26th, 1979, Debrecen

45

Lee Radford

English rugby league footballer and coach

*March 26th, 1979, Kingston upon Hull

45

A. Igoni Barrett

Nigerian writer

*March 26th, 1979, Port Harcourt

45

Niklas Persson

Swedish ice hockey player

*March 26th, 1979, Ösmo

45

Roberto Garza

American football player

*March 26th, 1979, Rio Hondo

45

Ido Noy

Curator and historian of Jewish art and ephemera

*March 26th, 1979, Kfar Vradim

45

Freddy Mullins

Musician, singer-songwriter

*March 26th, 1979, Lexington

45

Daniel Boys

British actor and singer

*March 26th, 1979, Yateley

42

Martin Kaps

German actor

*March 26th, 1979, Cottbus †June 29th, 2021

45

Yu Shaoteng

Chinese chess player

*March 26th, 1979, Guangzhou

45

Vital Lyadzyanyow

Belarusian association football player

*March 26th, 1979, Minsk

45

Oscar Leung

Hong Kong actor

*March 26th, 1979, British Hong Kong

45

Ksenia Smetanenko

Ice dancer

*March 26th, 1979, Moscow

45

Jason Dubois

American baseball player

*March 26th, 1979, Virginia Beach

45

Alistair Presnell

Professional golfer

*March 26th, 1979, Melbourne

45

Almudena Gallardo

Spanish archer

*March 26th, 1979, Madrid

45

Vincenzo Marruocco

Italian footballer

*March 26th, 1979, Naples

45

Sergio Pagni

Italian archer

*March 26th, 1979, Lucca

45

Gabriel Pozzo

Argentine rally driver

*March 26th, 1979, Argentina

45

Mickaël Pizzo

Footballer

*March 26th, 1979, Saint-Denis

45

Aurélie Félix

French athletics competitor

*March 26th, 1979, Mont-Saint-Aignan

45

Denys Sokolovskyi

Ukrainian footballer

*March 26th, 1979, Donetsk

45

Abderraouf Zarabi

Algerian footballer

*March 26th, 1979, Algiers

45

Laila Traby

French long distance runner

*March 26th, 1979, Laayoune

45

Pat uwaje king

Nigerian Gospel Musical artist

*March 26th, 1979, Ibadan

45

Rafael González Reséndiz

Mexican politician

*March 26th, 1979, Puerto Vallarta

45

Heidi Zeigler

Actress

*March 26th, 1979, Lansing

45

Alicia Lagano

Actress

*March 26th, 1979, Brooklyn

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46

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

31

Suci Rizky Andini

Indonesia badminton player

*March 26th, 1993, Bandung City

47

Morgan De Sanctis

Italian association football player

*March 26th, 1977, Guardiagrele

52

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

37

Nic Strange

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1987, Bangor

40

Luca James Lee

Australian actor

*March 26th, 1984, Subiaco

43

Massimo Donati

Italian footballer

*March 26th, 1981, San Vito al Tagliamento

44

Sérgio Paulinho

Portuguese road bicycle racer

*March 26th, 1980, Oeiras

51

Larry Page

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*March 26th, 1973, East Lansing

39

Jonathan Groff

American actor and singer

*March 26th, 1985, Lancaster

27

Ruthvika Shivani

Indian badminton player

*March 26th, 1997, Vijayawada

39

Keira Knightley

English actress

*March 26th, 1985, Teddington

82

James Caan

American actor (1940–2022)

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

25

Fabio Caponio

Italian badminton player

*March 26th, 1999, Santeramo in Colle

54

Martin McDonagh

British-Irish filmmaker and playwright

*March 26th, 1970, London

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

84

Nancy Pelosi

American politician (born 1940)

*March 26th, 1940, Baltimore

42

Mikel Arteta

Spanish association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1982, San Sebastián

60

Michael Frontzeck

German association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1964, Mönchengladbach

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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