March 26 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 270 days remaining until the end of time.
1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
The pairs competition.
1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the U.K.
1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
2006 Smoking is banned in restaurants and bars in Scotland
1987 Julien Fumat (on ground), French rugger/Dieux du Stade model with Djibril Camara
1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, unpleasant German composer (Appassionata), doesn’t realize that everyone around him is singing the ode to joy at his passing
1892 Walt Whitman, gay US poet, gaily sings the body electric (alternating current only)
1973 Sir Noël Peirce Coward, gay English playwright (Private Letters), becomes a blithe spirit
2004 Jan Berry, US singer/Jan and Dean, can’t make the turn at dead man’s curve
2009 Shane McConkey, Canadian skier and BASE jumper, lands splat.
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