Hey there All-Happy-with-your-own-dang-self!
Have a great year!
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March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining until the end of the year.
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* 1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
* 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
* 1636 - Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands.
* 1839 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
* 1934 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.
* 1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
* 1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
* 1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
* 1967 - Ten thousand people gather for the Central Park Be-In.
* 1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
* 1979 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.
* 1982 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.
* 2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
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1874 - Robert Frost
1911 - Tennessee Williams
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor
1931 - Leonard Nimoy
1934 - Alan Arkin
1942 - Erica Jong
1943 - Bob Woodward
1944 - Diana Ross
