Daily Calendar for Thursday, March 26, 2026

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Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) – 1827
Walt Whitman (poet) – 1892
Sarah Bernhardt (actress) – 1923
Margaret Millar (Canadian author) – 1994
Jan Sterling (star of Hollywood’s film noir movies in the 1940s and 1950s) – 2004
Paul Hester (drummer) – 2005
Paul Dana (race car driver) – 2006
Harry Wesley Coover Jr. (inventor of Super Glue) – 2011
Geraldine Ferraro (in 1984 became the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major U.S. party ticket) – 2011

Robert Frost (American poet and 4-time Pulitzer Prize winner; was born in San Francisco, California) – 1874
Tennessee Williams (playwright) – 1911
Gen. William Westmoreland (military commander) – 1914
Bob Elliot (comedian) – 1923
Sandra Day O'Connor (first female U.S. Supreme Court justice) – 1930
Leonard Nimoy (actor) – 1931
Alan Arkin (actor) – 1934
James Caan (actor) – 1939
Bob Woodward (journalist) – 1943
Diana Ross (singer) – 1944
Steven Tyler (musician; lead singer of Aerosmith) – 1948
Vicki Lawrence (actress) – 1949
Martin Short (actor) – 1950
Curtis Sliwa (founder of the Guardian Angels) – 1954
Kenny Chesney (country singer) – 1968
Keira Knightley (actress) – 1985

Congress created the Territory of Orleans – 1804
North West Company merged with Hudson’s Bay Company – 1821
An estimated 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in Owens Valley, California – 1872
Seattle Metropolitans became first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup – 1917
Popeye statue unveiled during spinach festival, Crystal City, Texas – 1937
Deadly dynamite explosion in quarry, Sandts Eddy, Pennsylvania – 1942
The U.N. Security Council met for the first time in New York – 1946
Dr. Jonas Salk announced development of polio vaccine – 1953
Perpetrators of the Great Train Robbery were convicted in London – 1964
North Vietnamese took Hue (Vietnam War) – 1975
Groundbreaking took place in Washington, D.C., for a memorial to honor American armed forces members killed in Vietnam – 1982
The U.S. government sold its 85% ownership of Conrail, one of the nation’s largest rail systems, and earned $1.6 billion in one of the largest stock offerings in history – 1987
The post-perestroika Soviet Union held its first nationwide multiparty, multicandidate elections – 1989
A 2-pound 5-ounce yellow hybrid bass was caught in the Kiamichi River of Oklahoma – 1991
Melissa macro computer virus released, disrupting systems worldwide – 1999
A 12-pound walleye was caught with fly tackle in Manistee River, Michigan – 1999