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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 26
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Gerald du Maurier in London, England; actor (Power, Escape, Masks and Faces).
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Robert Frost in San Francisco, California, USA; poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) (dies 1963).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Alan Arkin in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of G T Pryce; CEO (Dalgety).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Gino Cappelletti; ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964).
- 90th: 1934 - The automobile driving test is first introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 80th: 1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen, Germany.
- 80th: 1944 - Benjamin Crémieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at age 55.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Diana Ross [Earle] in Detroit, Michigan, USA; singer (The Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Curtis Sliwa; founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Piers Gardner; director (British Institute of International and Comparative Law).
- 70th: 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
- 60th: 1964 - Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater in New York City for 1,348 performances.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ab Plugboer; soccer player (FC Utrecht).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ulf Samuelsson in Fagersta, Sweden; NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, New York Rangers).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Alfred Shipman; Canadian Football League slot back (British Columbia Lions).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Hakeem Abdul-samad; rocker (Boys).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Irina Spirlea in Bucharest, Romania; tennis star (1996 Amelia Island).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Mike Peca in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; NHL center (Buffalo Sabres).
- 50th: 1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in two rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 50th: 1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President.
- 30th: 1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 metre ladies (38.99 seconds).
- 30th: 1994 - Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at age 41.
- 30th: 1994 - Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:02.60).
- 30th: 1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26).
- 25th: 1999 - A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- 25th: 1999 - The computer virus "Melissa" attacks about 250,000 PCs worldwide in about three days, using Microsoft Outlook to mail the virus to email addresses in the address book. This is the first virus capable of jumping from computer to computer on its own.
- 15th: 2009 - Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska erupts, shooting a plume of ash and smoke into the atmosphere, up to 20,000m.
- 5th: 2019 - The European Parliament votes by 348 to 278 in favour of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which expands legal liability for websites.
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