March 26: Holy Saturday (Western Christianity, 2016); Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971)
A page from William Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables
- 1344 – Reconquista: The Muslim city of Algeciras surrendered after a 21-month siege and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
- 1484 – William Caxton printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables (page pictured).
- 1830 – The Book of Mormon, the defining sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, was first published.
- 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.
- 1999 – Jack Kevorkian, an American advocate for and practitioner of physician-assisted suicide, was found guilty of murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
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