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.
- 1975The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
- 1978Four 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.
- 1979Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- 1982A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
- 1991Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
- 1991Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved.
- 1991Local self-government is restored after three decades of centralized control in South Korea.
- 1995The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
- 1997Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven’s Gate mass suicides.
- 1998Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: Fifty-two people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them children under the age of two.
- 1999The “Melissa worm” infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
- 1999A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- 2005The 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.
- 2010The ROKS Cheonan sinks off the west coast of South Korea near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.
- 2014A massive fire breaks out in Back Bay, Boston killing 2 firefighters and injuring at least 18 people.
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