This Day In History

March 26

St. Margaret

1885  Eastman Kodak produced the first commercial moving picture film in Rochester, New York
1942  The first Jews from Nazi concentration camps are transported by train to Auschwitz, Poland to be murdered.
1945  The battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima ends, leaving the US victorious.
1979  Israel and Egypt sign a Peace Agreement at the White House, with US President Carter, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
1997  Headed by Applewhite, the San Francisco, California Heaven’s Gate cult members found dead by self-inflicted suicide of poison drink.  The cult members had their own website and thought that aliens from another planet were coming to pick them up via the Hale-Bopp Comet.

1874  Poet Robert Frost
1880  Cake Maker Duncan Hines
1911  Playwright Tennessee (Thomas) Williams
1914  Army General of the Vietnam Conflict William Westmoreland
1931  Actor Leonard Nimoy
1934  Actor Alan Arkin
1939  Actor James Caan
1942  Writer Erica Jong (Mann)
1944  Singer Diana Ross
1950  Comedian Martin Short
1960  Actress Jennifer Grey

1954

• Wanted - Perry Como

• Secret Love - Doris Day

• Oh! My Pa-Pa - Eddie Fisher

• The Darktown Strutter's Ball - Lou Monte

1963

• Our Day Will Come - Ruby and The Romantics

• Walk like a Man - The Four Seasons

• Blame It on the Bossa Nova - Eydie Gorme

• The End of the World - Skeeter Davis

1972

• A Horse with No Name - America

• Without You - Nilsson

• Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon

• My Hang-Up is You - Freddie Hart

1981

• 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

• Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon

• Hello Again - Neil Diamond

• Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground - Willy Nelson

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