Historical Events For March - 26

1931  Iraq &Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty on March - 26.  

1931  New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies on March - 26.  

1931  Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty on this day in history.  

1932  Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25 on March - 26.  

1934  On March - 26 driving tests introduced in Britain  

1934  On March - 26 grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51  

1935  On this day in history "RvJ" Mitchell &Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire fighter aircraft decide on 8 .303 machine guns  

1935  "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire on this day in history.  

1936  200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech on this day in history.  

1936  On this day in history mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska  

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1936  On this day in history 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio  

1937  On March - 26 joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice &replace his 40 with 36 oz bat  

1937  On March - 26 spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye  

1937  On March - 26 william H Hastie becomes first black federal judge (Virgin Islands)  

1937  Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat on this day in history.  

1937  Albert Relf, cricketer (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide on this day in history.  

1938  On March - 26 nBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony  

1940  The birth of James Caan, American actor on March - 26.  

1940  On March - 26 ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC  

1941  On this day in history hMS YORK, lost Eastern Mediterranean, in Suda Bay, north Crete - badly damaged by Italian explosive motor boats, beached and later wrecked by bombing  

1942  20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA on March - 26.  

1942  On March - 26 aDM King becomes both Chief of Naval Operations and Commander, U.S. Fleet  

1942  On March - 26 german offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel  

1942  On this day in history the first "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz &Birkenau Camps  

1942  The first 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec on March - 26.  

1942  On this day in history 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps  

1943  Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean on March - 26.  

1943  On this day in history second Lieutenant Moananui-a-Kiwi NGARIMU, 28th NZ (Maori) Battalion, won the Victoria Cross at Tebaga Gap, Tunisia  

1943  The first woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott) on this day in history.  

1943  On March - 26 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)  

1944  On March - 26 705 British bombers attack Essen  

1944  The birth of Diana Ross, American singer on this day in history.  

1945  British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) on March - 26.  

1945  On March - 26 generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine  

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1479  On this day in history birth of vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III  

1516  Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565) was born on March - 26.  

1554  On this day in history birth of charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)  

1577  Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon was born on March - 26.  

1659  On March - 26 birth of william Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher  

1671  On this day in history birth of giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer  

1684  On this day in history birth of johann Graf, composer  

1698  On this day in history birth of václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)  

0304  On March - 26 death of saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian  

0752  Stephen II, Catholic Pope (3/22-26/752), dies on this day in history.  

0809  Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66 on this day in history.  

1130  Death of King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090) on this day in history.  

1212  Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212), dies at 58 on this day in history.  

1258  On March - 26 floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies  

1350  Alfonso XI, King of Castile & Leon, dies on March - 26.  

1517  Death of Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer on March - 26.