Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: March 26
March 26, 2024 is the 86th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Aquamarine is your modern birthstone. Jade is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: March 26
- 1636 –Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- 1812 –An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1881 –Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
- 1971 –East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
- 1974 –Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
- 1979 –Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- 1982 –A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
- 1991 –Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
- 1998 –Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
- 2005 –The Taiwanese government calls on 1 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.
Who were born on March 26?
- 1893 –Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
- 1913 –Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
- 1915 –Hwang Sunwon, Korean writer (d. 2000)
- 1916 –Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1919 –Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
- 1933 –Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian Writer
- 1961 –William Hague, British politician
- 1966 –Nick Wirth, British engineer
- 1983 –Roman Bednar, Czech footballer
- 1984 –Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer
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