Historical Events on March 26

Heaven's Gate

Here are some historical events that happened on March 26:

1931 - Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.

1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

1979 - The Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, hosted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

1997 - Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides in San Diego, California.

1971 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan, leading to the Bangladesh Liberation War.

1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems worldwide.

1974 - The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, China's first Emperor, is discovered in Xi'an.

1973 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign a treaty to prevent nuclear weapons testing in space, the atmosphere, and underwater.

1982 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal e-mail, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

1967 - The South African government passes a law banning Martin Luther King Jr.'s book "Stride Toward Freedom" because it was about nonviolent resistance.

1934 - The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.

1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer 3, the third successful launch in the Explorer program.

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

These are just a few events that have taken place on March 26 throughout history.

Historical Events on March 25

Martin Luther King Jr.

Here are some historical events that have occurred on March 25:

1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.

1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland.

1807 - The British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire, taking effect the following year.

1911 - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 garment workers, leading to widespread reforms in labor and safety laws.

1947 - A coal dust explosion at the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5 in Centralia, Illinois, kills 111 miners.

1957 - The Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community (EEC), now known as the European Union.

1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. begin their third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, which would later become known as the "Selma to Montgomery marches."

1971 - The Bangladesh Liberation War begins, leading to the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan.

1995 - WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, is made public by its creator, Ward Cunningham.

2014 - The Boko Haram terrorist group abducts more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, sparking international outrage and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

These are just a few events from history that took place on March 25th.

Historical Events on March 24

Elvis Presley

Here are some historical events that have occurred on March 24:

1603 - The Union Flag (the flag of the United Kingdom) was adopted as the flag of England and Scotland.

1837 - Canada gives African men the right to vote.

1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (TB).

1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1923 - Greece becomes a republic.

1944 - In occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in retaliation for an attack by Italian partisans the day before.

1958 - Elvis Presley is drafted into the United States Army.

1965 - NASA's Ranger 9 spacecraft successfully crashes into the Moon, sending back images in the final minutes of its mission.

1972 - The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.

1989 - The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurs in Prince William Sound, Alaska, one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history.

1999 - NATO begins airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

2008 - Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first-ever democratic elections.

2015 - A Germanwings plane, Flight 9525, crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

These are just a few events from history that took place on March 24th throughout the years.

Historical Events on March 23

Obamacare

Here are some historical events that happened on March 23:

1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle in St. Petersburg.

1857 - Elisha Otis installs the first modern passenger elevator in a public building, at the E.V. Haughwout & Co. store in New York City.

1889 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.

1903 - The Wright brothers obtain an airplane patent.

1908 - American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.

1919 - Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

1942 - World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.

1983 - Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is announced by President Ronald Reagan.

1994 - At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.

2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

2010 - The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

2014 - A mudslide in Oso, Washington, kills 43 people.

2019 - The United States recognizes Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

These are just a few of the significant events that have taken place on March 23 throughout history.