March 26......

March 26 is the 85th (86th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Aging "The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin." — Jessie Andrews

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Arrogance "I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." — George W. Bush

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.

● 1027 - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor

● 1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence

● 1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise

● 1199 - Richard the Lionheart is fatally wounded by a crossbow bolt during a siege in France, he dies eleven days later. The marksman, a french noble named Pierre Basile, is executed.

● 1526 - King François I returns Spanish captivity to France

● 1534 - Lübeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea

● 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.

● 1636 - Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands.

● 1668 - England takes control of Bombay India

● 1692 - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands

● 1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)

● 1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency

● 1793 - The Holy Roman Emperor formally declared war on France.

● 1793 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France

● 1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine

● 1804 - First official notice to Indians from U.S. government to move all Indians west of Mississippi River.

● 1804 - The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the District of Louisiana and the Territory of Orleans.

● 1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.

● 1812 - A major earthquake rocks Caracas, Venezuela on Holy Thursday, heavily damaging 90% of the city and killing 20,000.

● 1819 - Birth of Louise Otto, German author and feminist pioneer.

● 1827 - Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna, Austria, at age 56.

● 1830 - Joseph Smith, 24, first published "The Book of Mormon." Having derived it from golden plates he had discovered with the aid of the angel Moroni, Smith maintained that the plates were written in "Reformed Egyptian" which he had translated with the aid of "Urim and Thummim" two stones through which he had viewed the writings.

● 1840 - Birth of George Smith, famed English Assyriologist. During several expeditions to the site of ancient Nineveh, (1873-74), Smith unearthed over 3,000 cuneiform tablets, including one which told the story of an ancient deluge, similar to Noah's Flood.
● 1845 - Joseph Francis, New York NY, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat

● 1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid

● 1850 - Birth of Edward Bellamy, author of "Looking Backward."

● 1854 - Charles III, duke of Parma, was attacked by an assassin. He died the next day.

● 1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury

● 1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)

● 1862 - Hymnwriter Joseph H. Gilmore, 27, a professor of Hebrew at Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, penned the words to the enduring hymn, "He Leadeth Me."

● 1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves

● 1871 - Paris Commune elects members.

● 1871 - Insurrectionary movement in Creusot, France, in sympathy with Saint Etienne and Paris Commune, is proclaimed.

● 1872 - Birth of Ernest Armand (1872-1963), individualist, free love activist.

● 1872 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California

● 1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher

● 1874 - Robert Frost, the American writer who received three Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry , was born.

● 1878 - Hastings College of Law founded

● 1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens

● 1879 - Birth of Georges Conchon (1879-1959), Chartres, France. Tapestry maker, anarchist, and very popular secretary of the "Federation of Tenants." Having been evicted, Conchon declared war on "Mister Vulture" (the landlords). Help the evicted move, as well as take over unoccupied housing. Besieged the "Row of Saint Polycarpe" to frighten the middle-class and, in April 1913, Conchon and several thousand homeless invaded the town hall in Paris. He proposed to house families in the church of Madeleine and headed a demonstration of more than 15,000 people who "requisitioned" a barracks for 50 homeless families, as well as the private mansion of Rochefoucauld. During WWI Conchon deserted and was sentenced to three years of public work.

● 1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film

● 1885 - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan

● 1886 - 1st cremation in England

● 1889 - Birth of Jacques Doubinsky (1889-1959), Russia. As a young Russian labor radical he joined the Ukrainian peasant uprising in 1918, fighting with the insurrectionary Makhnovist army.

● 1890 - Birth of Raymond Callemin, member of the anarchist Bonnot Gang. Met Victor Serge in Belgium, with whom he started the individualist paper, "L'anarchie." Callemin was arrested in April 1912 in Paris and sentenced to death the next year with André Soudy, Ferdinand Monier, and Eugene Dieudonne. He was guillotined in April 1913, after having tried to clear Dieudonne.

● 1892 - Death of queer U.S. poet laureate Walt Whitman. "To states everywhere, resist much; obey little."

● 1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day

● 1898 - In South Africa, the world's first game reserve, the Sabi Game reserve, was designated.

● 1909 - Russian troops invaded Persia to support Muhammad Ali as shah in place of the constitutional government.

● 1910 - The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and carriers of disease from settling in the U.S.

● 1910 - William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US

● 1911 - Playwright Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Miss.

● 1913 - Dayton OH almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously

● 1913 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.

● 1915 - International Women's Socialist Conference held, Berne, Switzerland.

● 1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary

● 1917 - World War I: First Battle of Gaza - British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.

● 1918 - As anarchist draft resister Philip Grosser reports from Alcatraz Prison that he and other opponents of World War I are being tortured. Minneapolis is the scene of the first so-called "Slacker Raid," a dragnet of men without draft cards. Throughout the war, the raids will seize more than 40,000 non-registrants across the country.

● 1923 - Bulgaria - In Yambol, during an anarchist protest against the governments decision to disarm the people, the army shoots into the crowd, wounding the speaker Atanas Stoitchev and massacring others. About 30 are murdered overall, including others executed at the Yambol barracks tomorrow.

● 1926 - ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies

● 1929 - The Congregation of the Sacraments within the Catholic Church published a document instructing that a plate of silver or metal gilt be held under the chin of the communicant at the reception of the Holy Communion.

● 1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway

● 1931 - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty

● 1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies

● 1934 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.

● 1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech

● 1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)

● 1938 - Herman Goering warned all Jews to leave Austria.

● 1942 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps

● 1942 - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec

● 1942 - 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA

● 1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel

● 1942 - World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.

● 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

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

● 1943 - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean

● 1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen

● 1945 - In the Aleutians, the battle of Komandorski began when the Japanese attempted to reinforce a garrison at Kiska and were intercepted by a U.S. naval force.

● 1945 - British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)

● 1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine

● 1945 - Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima

● 1945 - Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto

● 1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms

● 1951 - The U.S. Air Force flag was approved. The flag included the coat of arms, 13 white stars and the Air Force seal on a blue background.

● 1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

● 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

● 1956 - Medic Alert Foundation forms

● 1957 - Dr. Basil W. Miller founded the Basil Miller Foundation in Altadena, CA. In 1959 its name was changed to World-Wide Missions.

● 1958 - Four pacifists set sail, intending to cross restricted zone around U.S. pacific weapons testing site.

● 1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.

● 1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.

● 1960 - Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem

● 1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature

● 1966 - Over 50,000 march in Fifth Avenue Peace Parade in New York City.

● 1967 - New York City Central Park Love-In, 10,000 show up.

● 1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio

● 1969 - Mexico - Anarchist novelist B. Traven dies at age 79.

● 1969 - Women Strike for Peace march.

● 1969 - The newly wed John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their famous "bed-in for peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton.

● 1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use

● 1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched

● 1970 - U.S. Atomic Energy Commission explodes nuclear weapons in Pahute Mesa, Nevada.

● 1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945

● 1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark

● 1971 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Liberation War begins.

● 1972 - Dita Beard tells Senate Judiciary Committee members visiting her hospital room she was under the influence of "barbiturates, alcohol, and hysteria" when she allegedly revealed the contents of her ITT memo. Later in the session, she was suddenly overcome by a "seizure" and stopped testifying.

● 1973 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat took over the premiership and said "the stage of total confrontation (with Israel) has become inevitable."

● 1973 - Stock Exchange admits women; Women are allowed on to the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time in the institution's 200 year history.

● 1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President

● 1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.

● 1976 - A military dictatorship begins in Argentina. As a result of the state terrorism, thirty thousand people are murdered. Their final whereabouts remain unknown.

● 1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

● 1979 - Israel and Egypt shake hands on peace deal; In a ceremony at the White House, Israel and Egypt end 30 years of war with a handshake, after the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. A treaty that has been honored by both sides since.

● 1981 - 'Gang of four' launches new party; The Social Democrats launch their new political party pledging to 'reconcile the nation' and 'heal divisions between classes'.

● 1981 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia

● 1981 - Soyuz T-4 lands

● 1982 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.

● 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1985 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ruling that an Oklahoma law permitting the dismissal of teachers for speaking out on gay rights is unconstitutional.

● 1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit

● 1989 - 1st free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins

● 1991 - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, New York NY

● 1991 - The presidents of Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay signed an agreement that established the Southern Cone Common Market, a free-trade zone, by January 1, 1995.

● 1993 - Soviet cosmonaut Serge Krikalev returns to the planet's surface after over 300 days in orbit. While he was away, the U.S.S.R. dissolved.

● 1995 - More than 3,000 people flee ethnic violence in Burundi, Africa.

● 1995 - Seven of the 15 European Union states abolished border controls.

● 1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.

● 1997 - The 39 bodies of Heaven's Gate members are found in a mansion in Santa Fe, CA. The group had committed suicide thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following behind the comet Hale-Bopp.

● 1998 - In the U.S., the Federal government endorses new HIV test that yields instant results.

● 1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.

● 1999 - First nuclear waste arrives at WIPP, Carlsbad, NM.

● 1999 - Record compensation for miners; Ex-miners suffering from lung diseases win the biggest industrial injuries case in British legal history.

● 1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects e-mail systems around the world.

● 1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.

● 2000 - Pope prays for Holocaust forgiveness; Pope John Paul II, visiting Jerusalem, has prayed for forgiveness for those involved in the Holocaust.

● 2000 - The Seattle Kingdome is imploded to make room for a new stadium.

● 2000 - Presidential elections are held in Russia, and Vladimir Putin is elected President.

● 2002 - Arthur Andersen chief executive Joseph Berardino resigned, bowing to mounting pressure as a result of the accounting firm's role in the Enron scandal.

● 2003 - Over one million students in Spain strike in opposition to their government's support of the US/UK invasion of Iraq.

● 2003 - Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-NY, died at age 76.

● 2005 - Return of Doctor Who to television after 16-year absence.

● 2006 - In Scotland the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.

BIRTHS

● 1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)

● 1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)

● 1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)

● 1753 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)

● 1817 - Herman Haupt, American civil engineer and inventor (d. 1905)

● 1850 - Edward Bellamy, American writer (d. 1898)

● 1859 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)

● 1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)

● 1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)

● 1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)

● 1875 - Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)

● 1875 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)

● 1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born bridge engineer (d. 1965)

● 1882 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1940)

● 1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)

● 1896 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)

● 1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)

● 1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)

● 1893 - James Conant, American educator and scientist (d. 1978)

● 1904 - Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)

● 1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)

● 1904 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (d. 1986)

● 1905 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)

● 1911 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2003)

● 1911 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)

● 1911 - T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)

● 1913 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)

● 1914 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)

● 1914 - William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)

● 1916 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

● 1916 - Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986)

● 1916 - Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986)

● 1917 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001)

● 1919 - Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980)

● 1922 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist

● 1923 - Bob Elliott, American comedian

● 1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor

● 1925 - James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor

● 1930 - Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)

● 1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

● 1931 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director (''Star Trek'')

● 1934 - Alan Arkin, American actor

● 1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority

● 1937 - Wayne Embry, former basketball player in the National Basketball Association

● 1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1940 - James Caan, American actor

● 1940 - Nancy Pelosi, American politician

● 1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist

● 1942 - Erica Jong, American author

● 1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist

● 1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)

● 1945 - Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)

● 1946 - Johnny Crawford, American actor

● 1946 - Alain Madelin, French politician

● 1947 - Dar Robinson, American stunt man (d. 1986)

● 1948 - Steven Tyler, American musician (Aerosmith)

● 1949 - Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer

● 1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer

● 1950 - Ronnie McDowell, Country singer

● 1950 - Alan Silvestri, Film composer

● 1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer

● 1950 - Martin Short, Canadian comedian

● 1950 - Ernest Thomas, American actor

● 1951 - Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)

● 1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor

● 1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island

● 1953 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)

● 1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)

● 1954 - Curtis Sliwa, American founder of the Guardian Angels

● 1955 - Dean Dillon, Country singer

● 1956 - Charly McClain, American singer

● 1957 - Leeza Gibbons, American television host

● 1958 - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer

● 1958 - Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986)

● 1960 - Marcus Allen, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1960 - Jennifer Grey, American actress ("Dirty Dancing")

● 1960 - Jon Huntsman Jr., Governor of Utah

● 1961 - William Hague, British politician

● 1962 - John Stockton, American basketball player

● 1962 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch television host

● 1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer

● 1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer and songwriter

● 1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver

● 1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish hockey player

● 1966 - Michael Imperioli, Actor ("The Sopranos")

● 1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer

● 1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)

● 1968 - Laurent Brochard, French cyclist

● 1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist

● 1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer

● 1973 - T.R. Knight, American actor ("Grey's Anatomy")

● 1974 - Mike Peca, Canadian hockey player

● 1975 - Juvenile, Rapper

● 1976 - Amy Smart, American actress

● 1976 - Ufuk Talay, Turkish-Australian footballer

● 1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer

● 1977 - Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler

● 1978 - Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player

● 1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist

● 1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer

● 1983 - Michael Brenley, professional wrestler

● 1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer

● 1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, Quebec artist and singer, 2004 Star Académie winner

● 1984 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model

● 1985 - Keira Knightley, English actress

● 1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain

● 1987 - YUI, Japanese musician

● 1991 - Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress

DEATHS

● 922 - Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer

● 1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090)

● 1212 - King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)

● 1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer

● 1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)

● 1546 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat

● 1566 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1510)

● 1649 – John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

● 1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)

● 1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)

● 1726 - Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (b. 1664)

● 1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)

● 1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)

● 1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)

● 1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)

● 1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)

● 1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine (b. 1738)

● 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)

● 1858 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)

● 1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)

● 1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)

● 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853)

● 1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)

● 1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)

● 1910 - An Jung-geun, Japanese assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)

● 1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)

● 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)

● 1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)

● 1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)

● 1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)

● 1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (b. 1873)

● 1942 - Jimmy Burke, baseball player (b. 1874)

● 1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)

● 1958 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)

● 1959 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)

● 1969 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)

● 1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)

● 1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)

● 1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)

● 1983 - Anthony Blunt, British spy (b. 1907)

● 1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)

● 1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)

● 1990 - Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932)

● 1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)

● 1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963)

● 1996 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)

● 1996 - David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912)

● 2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920)

● 2002 - Randy Castillo, drummer for Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue (b. 1950)

● 2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927)

● 2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)

● 2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)

● 2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)

● 2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)

● 2005 - Marius Russo, baseball player (b. 1914)

● 2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)

● 2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)

● 2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alfwold
● St. Basil the Younger
● St. Bathus and Companions
● St. Braulio
● St. Castulus
● St. Emmanuel (d. 304)
● St. Garbhan
● St. Larissa
● St. Ludger, bishop, confessor
● St. Margaret Clitherow
● St. Mochelloc
● St. Montanus & Maxima
● St. Peter
● St. Quadratus
● St. Theodore

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 13 (Civil Date: March 26)
● Translation of the Relics of St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Martyr Alexander of Macedonia.
● Martyr Sabinus (Abibus) of Egypt.
● Martyrs Africanus, Publius and Terence of Carthage.
● Martyr Christina of Persia.
● St. Aninas, monk of the Euphrates.
● Hieromartyr Publius, Bishop of Athens.

● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel

● Orthodox Christian liturgical calendar:
● Synaxis of St. Gabriel the Archangel

● Christian:
● St. Braulio of Aragon

● Zoroastrianism - Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday.

● Bangladesh : Independence Day (1971)

● Hampshire, England : Tichborne Dole (1150)

● Hawaii : Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianole Day/Regatta Day

● Lesotho, Spain : Arbor Day/Fiesta del Arbol (1895)

● Taiwan : Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Alaska: Seward Day (1867) - (Monday)
● US Virgin Island: Transfer Day (1917) - (Monday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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