On This Day:
Thursday March 26, 2015 This is the 85th day of the year, with 280 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: cancer Cancer is any of a group of more than 100 related diseases characterized by the uncontrolled multiplication of abnormal cells in the body.
Holidays Feast day of St. William of Norwich, St. Liudger, St. Felix of Trier, St. CaSt.ulus of Rome, St. Braulio, and St. Basil of Rome.
Bangladesh: Independence Day.
Spain: Fiesta del Arbol / Feast of the Tree or Arbor Day.
Hawaii: Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day (birthdate Hawaii's second delegate to Congress).
Events 1804 - The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana.
1885 - The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co. of Rochester, New York, manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.
1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announced the success of his vaccine against poliomyelitis.
1964 - The musical "Funny Girl" opened on Broadway.
1971 - East Pakistan proclaimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh.
1979 - At the White House, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed an historic peace agreement.
1982 - Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington, D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
2000 - Vladimir Putin was elected Russia's second democratically-chosen president.
Births 1874 - Condé Nast, American publisher.
1875 - Robert Frost, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
1880 - Duncan Hines, American author, traveler, cake mix inventor.
1904 - Joseph Campbell, American author, mythologist.
1911 - Tennessee (Thomas) Williams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
1914 - William Westmoreland, U.S. Army General, head of forces in Vietnam.
Deaths 2003 - Former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-NY.
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