March 26

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.


Psalm 1:2

March is:

National Nutrition Month - Promotes educating people about the important of healthy eating. Sponsor: The American Dietetic Association.

National Peanut Month - Spotlights America's favorite nut. Sponsor: Peanut Advisory Board.

National Pothole Month - Do your best to avoid this month's deepest holes.

March 26 is:

American Diabetes Alert Day - This day sounds the alert about the risks and symptoms of diabetes to the nearly 7 million Americans who have the disease and don't know it. Sponsor: American Diabetes Association

First commercial motion picture film produced (1885) - Eastman Kodak produced the first commercial motion picture film.

Good Fences Day - On the birthday of Robert Frost, celebrate that fact that good fences make good neighbors. Do something nice for your neighbors today. 

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day - Let your imagination run wild and create your own holiday! Sponsor: Wellness Permission League. 

National Organize Your Home Office Day - A day for people with home businesses to organize their offices. Sponsor: Everything's Organized

Salk vaccine developed (1953) - Developed by Dr. Jonas Salk to prevent polio.

Kuhio Day - This Hawaiian holiday honors the birthday of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, Hawaii's second delegate to the U.S. Congress.

Born on this Day

• 1874: Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. Although he will be proclaimed "the Voice of New England," he first saw a New England farm at the age of ten.
  

• 1911: Playwright Tennessee Williams was born in the rectory of his Episcopalian minister grandfather's church in Columbus, Mississippi.
  

• 1925: French composer-conductor Pierre Boulez
  

• 1914: Retired Army General William C. Westmoreland
  

• 1917: Singer Rufus Thomas
  

• 1923: Comedian Bob Elliott
  

• 1925: Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez
  

• 1930: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
  

• 1931: Actor Leonard Nimoy
  

• 1934: Actor Alan Arkin
  

• 1940: Actor James Caan
  

• 1942: Author Erica Jong
  

• 1943: Journalist Bob Woodward
  

• 1944: Singer Diana Ross
  

• 1946: Actor Johnny Crawford ("The Rifleman")
  

• 1948: Rock singer Steve Tyler (Aerosmith)
  

• 1949: TV personality Vicki Lawrence
  

• 1950: Singer Teddy Pendergrass
  

• 1950: Comedian Martin Short
  

• 1950: Country singer Ronnie McDowell
  

• 1955: Country singer Dean Dillon
  

• 1956: Country singer Charly McClain
  

• 1957: TV personality Leeza Gibbons
  

• 1960: Actress Jennifer Grey
  

• 1962: Basketball player John Stockton
  

• 1968:Rock musician James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins)
  

• 1968: Country singer Kenny Chesney         
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1026: Conrad II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XIX.
  

• 1051: Death of Hugh IV, Count of Maine
  

• 1144: Death of St. William of Norwich
  

• 1150: Tichborne family of Hampshire, England start tradition of giving a gallon of flour to each resident to keep a deathbed promise
  

• 1199: Richard I, "Lionheart," wounded by a crossbow at Chalus
  

• 1388: Construction begins on St. Mary's College, Oxford, England
  

• 1443: Mairgret O'Carroll, of Ireland, holds a feast, with 2700 in attendance
  

• 1778: Eight-year-old Beethoven gave his first public concert.
  

• 1780: The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, was published.
  

• 1804: The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana.
  

• 1827: Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna. He had been in bed for weeks with pneumonia and edema. He died 49 years to the day after his first public concert.
  

• 1859: Astronomers reported sighting a new planet in an orbit near that of Mercury. They named it Vulcan. It's now believed to have been a "rogue asteroid" making a one-time pass close to the sun.
  

• 1871: The Paris Commune, an insurrection of Paris against the French government, was formally set up.
  

• 1878: Hastings College of Law founded.
  

• 1885: The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co. of Rochester, New York, manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.
  

• 1892: Poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey at age 72. Constantly revising and augmenting his "Leaves of Grass," he received the final, ninth, edition on his deathbed.
  

• 1898: The world's first game reserve, the Sabi Game Reserve, was designated in South Africa.
  

• 1915: Following the publication of her first novel, "The Voyage Out," Virginia Woolf suffered a nervous breakdown.
  

• 1918: In World War I, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch was appointed commander of the Allied armies on the western front.
  

• 1920: "This Side of Paradise," F. Scott Fitzgerald's first book, appeared. It would sell 20,000 copies within a week. The author at 23 was the youngest novelist ever published by Scribner's.
  

• 1936: The first telescope with a 200-inch diameter, reflecting mirror was shipped from Corning, New York, to Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. The lens of the Hale telescope weighed 20 tons. It was dedicated in 1948.
  

• 1937: A six-foot-tall concrete statue of the cartoon character "Popeye" was unveiled during the Second Annual Spinach Festival in Crystal City, Texas.
  

• 1945: In World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended. During the battle about 22,000 Japanese troops were killed or captured and more than 4,500 U.S. troops died.
  

• 1951: The Air Force flag was approved. The flag included the coat of arms, 13 white stars and the Air Force seal on a blue background.
  

• 1953: Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis.
  

• 1958: The US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer Three."
  

• 1958: "The Bridge Over The River Kwai" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1957. Alec Guiness and David Lean won awards for best actor and director for the film.
  

• 1962: The U.S. Supreme Court gave federal courts the power to order reapportionment of seats in a state legislature, a decision that eventually led to the "one man, one vote" doctrine.
  

• 1964: The musical play "Funny Girl," starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, opened on Broadway.
  

• 1971: East Pakistan proclaimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh.
  

• 1973: Noel Coward died.
  

• 1973: President Anwar Sadat of Egypt took over the premiership, saying "the stage of total confrontation (with Israel) has become inevitable."
  

• 1979: Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty at the White House, ending 30 years of hostilities. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave President Carter credit for the so-called Camp David agreement.
  

• 1982: Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington DC for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
  

• 1987: Jessica Hahn, the former church secretary who admitted to a sexual encounter with former PTL head Jim Bakker, told reporters she had not tried to blackmail Bakker, and expressed concern about "innocent bystanders who have been hurt" by the scandal.
  

• 1979: Michigan State and Indiana State met in the all-time highest rated basketball game telecast. A pair of future NBA Hall-of-Famers played against one another: Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson.
  

• 1982: Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington, D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a pair of 200-foot black granite walls bearing the names of Americans killed or missing in the war.
  

• 1983: In an interview with "Pravda," Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov denounced President Ronald Reagan's proposal for a U.S. defense system against missiles, calling it a "bid to disarm the Soviet Union."
  

• 1985: The U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-213 in favor of authorizing funds for the MX missile (the House voted two days later to appropriate $1.5 billion dollars for production of the MX).
  

• 1986: Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev accused the United States of carrying out planned aggression against Libya, and proposed talks on withdrawal of Soviet and American fleets from the Mediterranean.
  

• 1987: Jessica Hahn, the former church secretary who admitted to a sexual encounter with former PTL head Jim Bakker, told reporters she had not tried to blackmail Bakker.
  

• 1987: The National Federation of High School Associations adopted the college distance, three-point shot, with a perimeter of 21 feet from the center of the backboard.
  

• 1988: Jesse Jackson stunned fellow Democrats by soundly defeating Michael S. Dukakis in Michigan's Democratic presidential caucuses.
  

• 1989: Voters in the Soviet Union went to the polls to fill 1500 of the more than 2,000 seats in the new Congress of People's Deputies in what turned out to be a series of embarrassing defeats for the Communist Party.
  

• 1990: "Driving Miss Daisy" won best picture at the 62nd annual Academy Awards and captured best actress prize for Jessica Tandy; Daniel Day-Lewis was named best actor for "My Left Foot.""
  

• 1990: Designer Halston died in San Francisco, California, at age 57.
  

• 1991: The Bush administration indicated it would not aid rebels seeking to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. 
  

• 1991: A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that criminal defendants whose coerced confessions were improperly used as evidence are not always entitled to a new trial.
  

• 1992: A judge in Indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson to six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contestant.
  

• 1992: Cosmonaut Serge Krikalev returned to Earth. When he left Earth on May 18, 1991, he was a citizen of the Soviet Union. While he was in space, the Soviet Union dissolved. His return to Earth was delayed from lack of funds.
  

• 1993: President Clinton promised a "full-court press" against Bosnian Serbs to secure their agreement to a United Nations peace plan endorsed by Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
  

• 1994: U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina destroyed a Serb bunker following a seven-hour exchange of fire.
  

• 1994: the Senate passed President Clinton's education reform measure, the "Goals 2000" bill, 63-22.
  

• 1995: The National Labor Relations Board, in an extraordinary Sunday session, voted 3-to-2 to seek an injunction against baseball owners as a 7-1/2-month-old strike by players continued.
  

• 1995: Former diplomat-turned-radio talk show host Alan Keyes entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
  

• 1996: Amid public fears of "mad cow disease," British farmers demanded their government order the destruction of old cattle, but Prime Minister John Major refused, and blamed the crisis on his political opponents.
  

• 1996: Former US senator and secretary of state Edmund Muskie died in Washington DC, two days shy of his 82nd birthday.
  

• 1997: The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who'd committed suicide were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
  

• 1997: Former drug counselor John G. Bennett Junior pleaded no contest in Philadelphia to charges stemming from a $100 million charity fraud.
  

• 1998: President Clinton stood with President Nelson Mandela in a racially integrated South African parliament to salute a country that was "truly free and democratic at last." Clinton, accompanied by his wife Hillary, became the first U.S. head of state to visit the former British colony.
  

• 1998: The federal government endorsed a new HIV test that yields instant results.
  

• 1998: UN arms monitors began a mission to inspect an Iraqi "presidential site" for the first time in seven years of work. The team included diplomats and was led by Jayantha Dhanapala, the UN undersecretary-general for disarmament.
  

• 1998: Russian, French and German leaders started their first informal "troika" meeting outside Moscow to discuss European security and other international matters. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl met in the Bor government complex some 30 miles outside the Russian capital. 
  

• 1999: A computer virus named "Melissa" began infecting computers across the country.
  

• 1999: American-led NATO forces launched a third night of airstrikes against Yugoslavia.
  

• 1999: Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted in Pontiac, Mich., of second-degree murder for giving a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease a lethal injection, an action videotaped and broadcast on television.
  

• 2000:"American Beauty" won five Oscars, including best picture; its leading man, Kevin Spacey, won best actor, while Hilary Swank won best actress for "Boys Don't Cry." 
  

• 2000: "Joy of Sex" author Alex Comfort died in Oxfordshire, England, at age 80. 
  

• 2000: Vladimir Putin was elected Russia's second democratically chosen president. 
  

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