Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26

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Family of Charles IV
Carol I of Romania
Dirham copper coin showing Saladin
"The Gerry-Mander", as printed in the Boston Gazette
Jonas Salk administering the polio vaccine to a child
Jack Kevorkian
Serbian artillery at Adrianople
William Caxton
Tesla Model S

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971)	tagged for {Tone} issues
1027 – Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.	refimprove
1169 – Saladin was inaugurated as vizier of Egypt.	refimprove section
1351 – War of the Breton Succession: Thirty knights and squires each from France and England fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany, later celebrated as a noble display of the ideals of chivalry.	Many citations needed
1636 – Utrecht University, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, was established.	refimprove
1830 – The Book of Mormon, the defining sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, was first published.	missing information
1871 – The Paris Commune was formally established in Paris.	Featured on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 18
1881 – Domnitor Carol I was proclaimed the first King of Romania, beginning the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1973 – The first episode of The Young and the Restless was broadcast, eventually becoming the most watched daytime drama on American television from 1988 onwards.	refimprove section
1974 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.	refimprove section
1978 – Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protesters destroyed much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.	refimprove section, unreferenced section
1979 – With the signing of a peace treaty in Washington, D.C., Egypt became the first Arab country officially to recognize Israel.	Multiple issues
1982 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was held.	Multiple uncited paragraphs, yellow banner
1999 – The Melissa computer virus was released, infecting email systems around the world.	short, insufficient context
2005 – The Taiwanese government called on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to China's Anti-Secession Law.	refimprove

Eligible

590 – Byzantine emperor Maurice proclaimed his son Theodosius as his co-emperor.
1484 – William Caxton (pictured) printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables.
1873 – A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning the Aceh War.
1885 – Perceiving that the Canadian government was failing to protect their rights, the Métis people led by Louis Riel began the North-West Rebellion.
1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.
1913 – First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.
1917 – First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
1942 – The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71.
1953 – Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
1997 – Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.
2009 – A prototype of the Tesla Model S, one of the most influential electric cars in history, was unveiled.
2010 – An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
Born/died this day: | Conrad Gessner |b|1516| Jacob van Eyck |d|1657| Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld |b|1794| James Hutton |d|1797| Fred Karno |b|1866| Old Abe |d|1881| Wilhelm Beck |b|1885| James B. Conant |b|1893| Chonghou |d|1893| Guido Stampacchia |b|1922| Constantin Fehrenbach |d|1926| Richard Dawkins |b|1941| Eazy-E |d|1995| Diana Wynne Jones |d|2011 |

Notes

Theodosius III appears on March 25, so Theodosius should not appear in the same year

March 26

Elbridge Gerry

1344 – Reconquista: The Muslim city of Algeciras surrendered after a 21-month siege and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
1651 – The Spanish ship San José ran aground onto coasts controlled by the indigenous Cunco people, who subsequently killed the crew.
1697 – The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.
1812 – The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry (pictured), who approved the legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.
1939 – Nationalist forces began their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
1999 – A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.

'Adud al-Dawla (d. 983)
Julie-Victoire Daubié (b. 1824)
Jörg Streli (b. 1940)
D. M. Thomas (d. 2023)

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