March 26 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 26
In the headlines today:

2004	William Jan Berry, of the surf music duo Jan & Dean, dies at age 62 in Los Angeles.
2000	American Beauty picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture.
2000	The Russian people elect Vladimir Putin as their president.
1999	Dr. Jack Kevorkian is found guilty of second degree murder for euthanizing a patient suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
1997	The bodies of 39 Heaven's Gate cult members are discovered in California.
1996	Edmund Muskie, former US senator, secretary of state, and VP hopeful, dies in Washington DC, at age 81.
1971	East Pakistan becomes the independent nation of Bangladesh.
1961	Russia recovers the capsule from Sputnik 10, along with its dogmonaut inhabitant. Woof, woof, comrades!
1953	Dr. Jonas Salk announces a vaccine for polio.
1923	Actress Sarah Bernhardt dies.
1918	Claude Debussy, French composer, dies.
1892	Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey.
1827	Composer Ludwig von Beethoven dies in Vienna.
1821	Canada's Northwest Company and Hudson's Bay Company merge.
1804	Louisiana becomes a US territory.
1649	John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts colony, dies.

Born today:

1968 James Iha - rock guitarist (Smashing Pumpkins)

1962 John Stockton - basketball player

1960 Marcus Allen - football player, 1981 Heisman Trophy winner

1960 Jennifer Grey - actress

1957 Leeza Gibbons - TV host

1950 Ronnie McDowell - country singer

1950 Teddy Pendergrass - singer

1949 Fran Sheehan - rock bassist (Boston)

1950 Martin Short - actor, comedian

1949 Vicki Lawrence - singer, actress

1948 Richard Tandy - bassist (Electric Light Orchestra)

1948 Steven Tyler - rock singer (Aerosmith)

1944 Diana Ross - singer

1943 Bob Woodward - journalist, author

1942 Erica Jong - author

1940 Braulio Baeza - jockey

1940 James Caan - actor

1934 Alan Arkin - actor

1932 Dick Nolan - football player, NFL coach

1931 Leonard Nimoy - actor, director (Star Trek)

1930 Sandra Day O'Connor - US Supreme Court Justice

1923 Bob Elliott - comedian (Bob and Ray)

1916 Sterling Hayden - actor

1914 William Westmoreland - US Army General

1911 Tennessee Williams - playwright

1875 Robert Frost - poet

1859 A. E. Housman - poet

Born today? Your sign of the Zodiac is:

Aries

(The Ram)