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Events

• 1169 (857 years ago) Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
• 1636 (390 years ago) Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
• 1640 (386 years ago) The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, is founded in the city of Turku by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe.
• 1885 (141 years ago) The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
• 1931 (95 years ago) Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
• 1931 (95 years ago) Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
• 2005 (21 years ago) Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.

Births

• 1874 (152 years ago) Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (died 1963)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (died 1965)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Tennessee Williams, American playwright and poet (died 1983)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Nancy Pelosi, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1941 (85 years ago) Richard Dawkins, Kenyan-English ethologist, biologist, and academic
• 1944 (82 years ago) Diana Ross, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1973 (53 years ago) Larry Page, American computer scientist and businessman, co-founder of Google
• 1985 (41 years ago) Keira Knightley, English actress

Deaths

• 1827 (199 years ago) Ludwig van Beethoven, German pianist and composer (born 1770)
• 1892 (134 years ago) Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (born 1819)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Cecil Rhodes, English-South African colonialist, businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (born 1853)
• 1923 (103 years ago) Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and screenwriter (born 1844)
• 1945 (81 years ago) David Lloyd George, English-Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1863)
• 1959 (67 years ago) Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter (born 1888)
• 2005 (21 years ago) James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1912)
• 2015 (11 years ago) Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)

All 438 events, births and deaths of March 26