March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

26 March 1918 He became the last Postal Train to Madinah on Hejaz Railway. Depending on the destruction, the train departing from Madinah could not go further than Tabuk.
26 March 1936 Afyon-Karakuyu (113 km) line was opened with the speech of Prime Minister İsmet İnönü. The line was built by the contractor Nuri Demirağ.

Events

1583 – William Harborne, the first Ambassador of England in the Ottoman lands, arrived in Istanbul.
1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1812 – The Venezuelan city of Caracas is destroyed by a severe earthquake.
1821 – Seyyid Ali Pasha was removed from the Grand Viziership and Benderli Ali Pasha was appointed instead.
1913 – Edirne was captured by Bulgarian and Serbian forces.
1915 – World War I: The First Battle of Gaza takes place.
1917 – World War I: The Ottoman 15th Corps was formed to serve on the Anatolian side of the Dardanelles.
1931 – With the adoption of the Measures Law in Turkey; It was envisaged to use new measures such as grams, meters and liters instead of old measures such as okka and endaze.
1934 – First-time motor vehicle users in the UK are required to pass the driving test.
1942 - Nazis begin deporting Jews to Auschwitz Camp in Poland.
1971 – President Cevdet Sunay approved the cabinet of Nihat Erim, who was appointed to replace Süleyman Demirel, who resigned with the 12 March Memorandum.
1971 – Two continents united in Istanbul. With the replacement of the 57th unit of the Bosphorus Bridge, the Asian and European sides of the city were connected.
1971 – East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan towards the formation of Bangladesh.
1979 – Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington.
1995 – The Schengen Agreement entered into force.
1996 – The International Monetary Fund approves a loan of 10.2 billion USD to Russia.
1999 – The Melissa virus infected email systems around the world.
1999 - A Court Jury in Michigan, Dr. Convicted Jack Kevorkian of injecting a terminally ill patient to death (euthanasia).
2000 – As a result of the elections held in Russia, Vladimir Putin became President.
2002 – In the General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the draft law with nine articles, which was prepared within the framework of harmonization with the EU and amending eight laws, was accepted.
2002 – Turkish Major Cengiz Toytunç was killed and Captain Hüseyin Özarslan was injured in the attack on the vehicle belonging to the International Temporary Presence in Israel.
2005 – Today's series of Doctor Who is broadcast on BBC Channel.
2006 – Smoking in public places is banned in Scotland.

Births

391 – Peter of Sivas, bishop of Sebaste (Sivas) (b. 340)
1516 – Conrad Gesner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1805 – Şirali Müslümov, Azerbaijani farmer, claimed to be the oldest person in the world (d. 1973)
1832 – Michel Bréal, French philologist (d. 1915)
1834 – Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, German photochemist and photographer (d. 1898)
1840 – George Smith, English Assyriologist and archaeologist (d. 1876)
1849 – Armand Peugeot, French industrialist (d. 1915)
1850 – Edward Bellamy, American socialist writer (d. 1898)
1853 – Hugo Rheinhold, German sculptor (d. 1900)
1854 – Harry Furniss, English artist and illustrator (d. 1925)
1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1868 – Fuad I (Ahmed Fuad Pasha), king of Egypt (d. 1936)
1871 – Rauf Yekta, Turkish musician, musicologist and composer (d. 1935)
1874 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
1875 – Alexei Ukhtomsky, Russian revolutionary and Socialist Revolutionary Party leader (d. 1905)
1876 – Wilhelm, Prince of Albania (d. 1945)
1875 – Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (d. 1965)
1876 Kate Richards O'Hare Cunningham, American socialist (d. 1948)
1880 – Alfred A. Cohn, American author, journalist, and newspaper editor, police commissioner (d. 1951)
1892 – Filippo Del Giudice, Italian filmmaker (d. 1963)
1893 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (d. 1964)
1893 – James Bryant Conant, American chemist (d. 1978)
1895 – Jimmy McMullan, Scottish former football player and manager (d. 1964)
1898 – Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma (d. 1974)
1904 – Joseph Campbell, American author and mythologist (d. 1987)
1911 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (d. 1983)
1913 – Paul Erdös, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
1913 – Zehra Bilir, Turkish singer (d. 2007)
1919 – Tevhit Bilge, Turkish theater and cinema artist (d. 1987)
1924 – Bülent Oran, Turkish film actor and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1925 – Pierre Boulez, French composer, choirmaster, writer and pianist (d. 2016)
1929 – Natalino Pescarolo, Italian Catholic Bishop (d. 2015)
1931 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor, director, musician, and photographer (d. 2015)
1932 – Stefan Wigger, German actor (d. 2013)
1933 – Tinto Brass, Italian director
1934 – Alan Arkin, American actor, director, and musician
1935 – Erdal Öz, Turkish writer (d. 2006)
1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician
1939 – Étienne Draber, French actress (d. 2021)
1940 – James Caan, American actor (d. 2022)
1940 – Nancy Pelosi, American politician
1941 – Richard Dawkins, English biologist
1942 – Ayşegül Devrim, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress (d. 2009)
1942 – Erica Jong, American poet, novelist, teacher
1943 – Mustafa Kalemli, Turkish politician
1943 – Bob Woodward, American investigative journalist and article writer
1944 – Diana Ross, American singer, record producer, and actress
1945 – Paul Bérenger, Mauritian politician
1946 – Johnny Crawford, American actor, singer, musician, and bandleader (d. 2021)
1946 – Alain Madelin, French politician
1947 – Subhash Kak, Indian-English poet and playwright
1948 – Steven Tyler, American singer, composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
1949 – Bärbel Dieckmann, German politician
1949 – Patrick Süskind, German writer
1950 – Martin Short, American actor, screenwriter, host, producer, and comedian
1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film-serial score composer and conductor
1951 - Carl Wieman was an American physicist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1952 – Didier Pironi, French former Formula 1 driver (d. 1987)
1953 – Elaine Chao, American politician
1954 – Savaş Ay, Turkish journalist and reporter (d. 2013)
1956 – Park Won-Soon, South Korean politician, lawyer and activist
1957 – Shirin Neshat is an Iranian contemporary artist.
1958 – Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986)
1960 – Jennifer Gray is an American actress.
1962 – Falko Götz, German football man
1962 – John Stockton is an American former basketball player.
1963 – Serpil Gümülcineli Öztürk, Turkish painter
1968 Kenny Chesney, American country singer-songwriter
1968 – James Iha, Japanese-American rock musician
1969 – Mahsun Kırmızıgül, Turkish singer
1969 – Murat Garipağaoğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor
1970 - Paul Bosvelt, former Dutch football player
1970 – Martin McDonagh, Irish contemporary playwright, Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter
1972 Leslie Mann, American actress
1973 – Larry Page, American businessman
1975 – Cyril Mennegun, French film director and screenwriter
1976 – Amy Smart, American actress and model
1976 – Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish film actress
1977 Kevin Davies is an English former international footballer.
1978 – Sandra Romain, Romanian porn star
1979 - Pierre Wome is a former Cameroonian football player.
1982 – Mikel Arteta is a Spanish former national football player.
1982 – Andreas Hinkel, German football player
1982 – Jay Sean, English musician
1983 – Roman Bednář, Czech international football player
1985 – Jonathan Groff, American actor and singer
1985 – Keira Knightley, British actress
1986 – Rüzgar Erkoçlar, Turkish actress
1986 – Emma Laine, Finnish professional tennis player
1987 – Steven Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1988 – Barış Hersek, Turkish basketball player
1989 – Simon Kjaer, Danish national football player
1990 – Ahzee, American musician
1990 – Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian national football player (d. 2016)
1990 – Xiumin, South Korean singer
1990 – Choi Woo-shik, South Korean-Canadian actor
1992 – Nina Agdal, Danish model
1992 – Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgian Formula 1 driver
1994 – Ali Osman Antepli, Turkish football player
1999 – Anel Ahmedhodžić, Bosnian national football player
2003 - Bhad Bhabie, an American rapper

Deaths

903 – Sugawara no Michizane, Heian-era Japanese scholar, poet, and politician (b. 845)
922 – Hallaj-i Mansur, Iranian sufi and writer (b. 858)
1211 – Sancho I, king of Portugal, reigning from 6 December 1185 to 26 March 1211 (b. 1154)
1350 – XI. Alfonso, King of Castile and León (b. 1311)
1625 – Giambattista Marino, founder of the Marinism school (later Secentismo) that dominated Italian poetry (b. 1569)
1649 – John Winthrop, English lawyer, leader of the Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1587)
1726 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and playwright (b. 1664)
1797 – James Hutton, Scottish physician, geologist, natural historian, chemist, and experimental agronomist (b. 1726)
1814 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (b. 1738)
1827 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
1864 – Jan Bake, Dutch linguist (b. 1787)
1882 – Thomas Hill Green, English philosopher (b. 1836)
1892 – Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
1902 – Cecil Rhodes, English politician and businessman (b. 1853)
1922 – Alfred Blaschko, German dermatologist (b. 1858)
1923 – Sarah Bernhardt, French theater actress (b. 1884)
1926 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, German statesman (b. 1852)
1945 – David Lloyd George, British politician (b. 1863)
1949 – Albert William Stevens, American soldier, balloonist, and first aerial photographer (b. 1889)
1957 – Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
1957 – Max Ophüls, German-French film director and writer (b. 1902)
1959 – Raymond Chandler, American author (b. 1888)
1959 – Suavi Tedü, Turkish actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1969 – John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)
1973 – Noël Coward, English actor, writer and composer (b. 1899)
1984 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, first President of the Republic of Guinea (b. 1922)
1987 – Mahmut Cuda, Turkish painter (b. 1904)
1993 – Tevfik Behramov, Azerbaijani football player and lineman (b. 1925)
1995 – Belgin Doruk, Turkish cinema artist (b. 1936)
1995 – Eazy-E, American Hip-Hop rapper (b. 1964)
1997 – Turhan Dilligil, Turkish politician, journalist and writer (b. 1919)
2005 – James Callaghan, British politician (b. 1912)
2005 – Murat Çobanoğlu, Turkish folk poet (b. 1940)
2009 – Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian composer and singer (b. 1926)
2011 – Zühtü Bayar, Turkish poet and writer (b. 1943)
2013 – Don Payne, American writer and producer (b. 1964)
2015 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (b. 1931)
2016 – Raúl Cárdenas, Mexican football player and manager (b. 1928)
2016 – Norm Hadley, Canadian rugby player (b. 1964)
2016 – Igor Pashevich, Russian ice skater and trainer (b. 1971)
2017 – Darlene Cates, American actress (b. 1947)
2017 – Mai Dantsig, Belarusian painter and artist (b. 1930)
2017 – Věra Špinarová, Czech singer (b. 1951)
2017 – Roger Wilkins, American history professor and journalist (b. 1932)
2017 – Mamadou Diop, Senegalese politician (b. 1936)
2019 – Ted Burgin, English former professional football player and manager (b. 1927)
2019 – Master Fatman, Danish Film director, musician, comedian, singer, actor and DJ (b. 1965)
2019 – Ali Mema, former Albanian professional football player and manager (b. 1943)
2020 – María Teresa, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, member of the smallest branch of the Spanish royal family (b. 1933)
2020 – Menggie Cobarrubia, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2020 – Ito Curata, Filipino fashion designer (b. 1959)
2020 – Michel Hidalgo, French former football player (b. 1933)
2020 – Olle Holmquist, Swedish trombonist (b.1936)
2020 – Naomi Munakata, Japanese-Brazilian conductor and artistic director (b. 1955)
2020 – Luigi Roni, Italian opera singer (b. 1942)
2020 – Michael Sorkin, American architect, author, and educator (b. 1948)
2020 – Hamish Wilson, Scottish actor (b. 1942)
2020 – Jon Wynne-Tyson, English writer and publisher (b. 1924)
2020 – Daniel Yuste, Spanish cyclist (b. 1944)
2021 – Cornelia Catangă, Romanian singer (b. 1958)
2021 – Azade Namdari, Iranian TV presenter and actress (b. 1984)
2022 – Bang Jun-seok, South Korean soundtrack composer, producer, lyricist, and music director (b. 1970)
2022 – Gianni Cavina, Italian actor (b. 1940)
2022 – Aimé Mignot, French former professional football player and manager (b. 1932)

Holidays and special occasions

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