ON THIS DAY IN RECENT HISTORY ~ MARCH 26

ON THIS DAY IN RECENT HISTORY ~ MARCH 26

 

 

 

1874 - Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) (d. 1963) is born
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1892 - Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72
1909 - Chips Rafferty, Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats) is born
1911 - Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is born
1911 - T. Hee, (Thornton Hee) American animator (Disney, United, Terrytoons) (d. 1988) is born
1914 - William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era) is born
1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz (Robert Stroud) receives solitary
1916 - Mort Abrahams, producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes) is born
1916 - Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra) is born
1919 - Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot) is born
1923 - Bob Elliot, Boston Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life) is born
1924 - Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London
1926 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice  is born
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) is born
1934 - Alan Arkin, NYC, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark) is born
1936 - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 - Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1939 - Phillip R Allen, Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice) is born
1940 - Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1940 - James Caan, Bronx NY, American actor (Misery, Godfather) is born
1942 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1943 - Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
1944 - Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany) is born
1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 - Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1946 - Johnny Crawford, LA California, actor (Mark-The Rifleman) is born
1948 - Richard Tandy, rock bassist (ELO) is born
1948 - Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun) is born
1949 - Fran Sheehan, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling) is born
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family) is born
1950 - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos) is born
1950 - Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone) is born
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights) is born
1950 - Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart) is born
1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer is born
1951 - USAF flag approved
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," from Disney becomes the #1 record in US
1956 - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1957 - Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza) is born
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
1958 - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1960 – Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing) is born
1962 - Eric Allan Kramer, actor (Bob Duncan on the Disney Channel series Good Luck Charlie), is born
1964 - "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer, is born
1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle) is born
1969 - Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1970 - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 - "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 - "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1973 - Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
1973 - Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - "Tommy" premieres in London
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sends out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1980 - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1985 - Keira Knightley, London, English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean) is born
1986 - Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1986 – Baby Jessica (at 18mths she fell in her aunt’s well for 58 hours) is born
1989 - 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1990 - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1992 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1995 - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
1996 - Thomas Wakefield, writer, dies at 60
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950) dies
2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941) dies