March 26 Historical Events

The following events took place on March 26. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.

• 1975
  The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
• 1978
  Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan’s Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
• 1979
  Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
• 1982
  A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
• 1991
  Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
• 1991
  Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved.
• 1991
  Local self-government is restored after three decades of centralized control in South Korea.

• 1995
  The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
• 1997
  Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven’s Gate mass suicides.
• 1998
  Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: Fifty-two people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them children under the age of two.
• 1999
  The “Melissa worm” infects Microsoft word processing and 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.
• 2005
  The Taiwanese government calls on one million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People’s Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration.
• 2010
  The ROKS Cheonan sinks off the west coast of South Korea near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.
• 2014
  A massive fire breaks out in Back Bay, Boston killing 2 firefighters and injuring at least 18 people.