On this day…

[Anonymous]

26th March… according to Wikipedia…

Quote:

March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971)

•1169 – Saladin (depicted on coin) was inaugurated as Emir of Egypt. [Yes, him of the crusades]

•1830 – The Book of Mormon, the defining sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, was first published.

•1917 – First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.

•1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.

•1974 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, used their bodies to surround trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.

Always interesting to see what happened on any given day… you can see here the interesting company this anniversary keeps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_26

Also off the other link-

* 1484 Caxton prints Aesop’s Fables

* Henley Regatta founded

* 1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.

•1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

•1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.

•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 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..

•1991 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.

Here’s some of the birthday’s I’ve heard of –

* King Malcolm III of Scotland

* Robert Frost, American poet

* Guccio Gucci (founder of Gucci)

* Rudolf Dassler (founder of Puma – his brother founded Adidas and they couldn’t stand each other)

* Tennessee Williams

* Pierre Boulez

* Leonard Nimoy

* Alan Arkin

* James Caan

* Erica Jong

*Diana Ross

* Richard Dawkins

* Patrick Suskind

* Seth Lakeman

* ZOROASTER

Deaths –

* James Hutton, geologist

* Vanbrugh

* Beethoven

* Walt Whitman

* Lloyd George

* Raymond Chandler

* John Kennedy Toole

* Roland Barthes

* Anthony Blunt (one of the English spies who went over to KGB)

[Anonymous]

Cool. I love history.

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