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Thursday, 26 March 2026
1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to kill US President Ronald Reagan. He is later acquitted by reason of insanity. 
1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men.
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3 47.33 (since broken).
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken).
1982 G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies
1983 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66
1985 Launch of Aussat, Australia's inaugural domestic communications satellite.
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88.
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying.
1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany.
1988 Hazel Dawn, US singer/actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98
1990 Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province
1990 Kuwait declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein.
1990 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske and Wiske), dies.
1991 5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident
1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher.
1991 Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies.
1992 National Defence sends destroyer HMCS Gatineau to monitor UN embargo against Yugoslavia and moves to NATO standing force in Mediterranean
1993 René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80.
1994 David Wright, poet, dies at 74
1995 Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announce plans for a $10 billion merger to become the largest bank in the US.
1995 Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85.
1996 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, ending 15 years of marriage
1996 Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50.
2005 In this year, Terrorist wounds 52 at bus station in Beersheba, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
2006 A Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal, carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown killing 5 people including the driver and several are seriously injured
2012 Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate.
2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons.
2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38000 fine and four years in jail.
2017 North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover.
2017 English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of role in movie “Hellboy†after whitewashing criticism.
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