This Day in History 26/03
MARCH 26TH
1881 – Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1913 – Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1931 – New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1953 – Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1953 – Salk Polio vaccine announced
2006 – The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation’s capital.
2012 – Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1868 – Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
1874 – Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 – Syngman Rhee, P’yŏngsan Hwanghae Province, first President of South Korea (1948-60)
896 – Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
1911 – Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1944 – Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany
FAMOUS DEATHS
1865 – Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
1888 – Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
1902 – Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1920 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
1945 – David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
1984 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
2011 – Paul Baran, internet pioneer who helped create the technical underpinnings of Arpanet, dies at 84
FAMOUS WEDDING
2011 – Oscar winning actress Reese Witherspoon (36) weds talent agent Jim Toth (34) at Libbey Ranch in Ojai, California
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