Portal:United States/Anniversaries/March/March 26

1945 – US forces declare Iwo Jima, one of the most harshly contested battlegrounds of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, as "secure."
1953 – Jonas Salk (pictured) announces his polio vaccine.
1967 – Ten thousand people gather in New York City for the Central Park be-in.
1979 – Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
1999 – A jury in Michigan finds physician and assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.

On this day for the United States

Events

1945 - World War II: In Iwo Jima, US forces declare Iwo Jima as "secure."
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.
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson.
1979 - Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
1982 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and email systems around the world.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.

Deaths Vena Lechevalier 86 years old March 26, 2008