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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 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the 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) Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (b. 1794) Julie-Victoire Daubié (b. 1824) D. M. Thomas (d. 2023) More anniversaries: March 25 March 26 March 27

Sorry

sorry I deleated some things, I was editing it from my iPod touch Luke Farrelly-Spain (talk) 21:00, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Brandstrom

Who is Elsa Brändström? -- Zoe

Why is 'Seattle Kingdome imploded' here?

It doesn't seem to me as an event of much significance - or is such an event of sufficient significance to be mentioned here? Or, last possibility, is there no limit on which events should be mentioned here? Newbie Jeroen 23:14, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Personally, I don't mind "minor events" being listed on date pages. Trivia is what gives the date flavour - and listing what happened on a particular date is all about trivia.

About the Kingdome implosion event in particular, although on a world scale, the event is insignificant, the Kingdome was a major Seattle landmark, and its implosion was a notable event in Seattle history. Kevyn 21:22, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Day articles should not include trivia or local events. The Events section should only include events of international significance, which the demolition of this building isn't. Jim Michael (talk) 23:29, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

The Final Nitro

When I add the final WCW Nitro aired on this date, somebody keeps erasing it. Why? I consider it an important enough date considering the Doctor Who date remains. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gruntyking117 (talk • contribs) .

Hi, Mike. I'll cop to one of those deletions. I'll give you my reasoning.

We want to try for the date pages to list the most notable things that happened on a particular date in history, and there's no indication from the entry I deleted that this was a significant event:

• 2001 Final WCW Monday Nitro airs.

It gets really tricky trying to compare items like this straight across, and I'm not a Doctor Who fan. But I just skimmed through the Doctor Who article; the second paragraph in that article makes some good arguments for notability, especially in the U.K. Doctor Who ran for 26 years, went off the air for sixteen years, then restarted in 2005. WCW Monday Nitro only aired for about five years, and the article doesn't talk about it having a similar level of notability, as compared to Doctor Who. I've never seen a full episode of either show, so I'm just going by the articles.

The question is how significant or notable (historically, culturally, however you want to measure it), the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro on March 26, 2001 was. WCW Monday Nitro#The final Nitro describes the final episode, but it doesn't claim that it was particularly notable. For an example of a culturally notable TV event, you might think of the Who Shot J.R. episode of Dallas, or the final episode of M*A*S*H (See List of most-watched television episodes).

I'll admit I didn't think about it in detail; the entry struck me as non-notable, so I deleted it. (I assume the editor who deleted it the other time you added it did so for a similar reason.) There are literally hundreds of items added to the date pages every day, from teenagers adding their own birthdays to fans adding their favourite actor or singer to the lists. We can't include everything, so we've got to try to edit the pages so they show the most interesting and notable things that happened on each date.

-- Jim Douglas 03:03, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. In my opinion, death of Nitro was the death of the Monday Night Wars, which was fairly significant in culture during the 90's as it pushed wrestling into a highly marketable property. If you look at the end of the spectrum, both the Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's and Mick Foley's books both became best sellers. Nitro was also the only wrestling program to outrate WWE. That's just my opinion though, and I understand what you mean.

--Gruntyking117

Third Iwo flag raising?

It would seem more meaningful to say something about Iwo being "secured" on this day. I cannot find any reference to a third flag raising of any significance anywhere. Wduke

I have spent 30 minutes trying to find something to justify the third raising and can't so have removed it. --00:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Chenon

Why allegedly? I was under the mpression that clear evidence had been found implicating North Korea. The only thing missing is they haven't accepted the blame. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.126.217 (talk) 12:49, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Margaret Clitherow

March 26 is neither the date of her death nor of her liturgical feast as per the linked Wiki article. Is there a reason she is here? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 12:45, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Well observed, i'm going to remove her name from the page. Kind regards Saschaporsche (talk) 16:52, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

"purple day"

is a "grassroots movement" the sort of thing to put in Holidays and Observances? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 12:47, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Today, Lord Milner Won the War

Today during World War I, on March 26, 1918, Lord Alfred Milner united the Western Front with General Ferdinand Foch. His action won the war. Read all about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Milner,_1st_Viscount_Milner#The_Doullens_Conference

Independence Day (Bangladesh)

Did anyone know why the important national day like Independence Day (Bangladesh) not mentioned on the top as like other countries of this entire planet. Strange Srh742 (talk) Srh742 (talk) 11:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

It is mentioned in the Holidays and observances section. Kiwipete (talk) 07:55, 26 March 2024 (UTC)