History Of 26 March | On This Day In World

In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 26 March are as follows: -

➧ 1655: Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, was discovered.

➧ 1807: The abolition of slavery from the British Empire.

➧ 1814: Netherlands Bank established.

➧ 1821: The Greek Independence War began.

➧ 1838: William Wedderburn, President of the Indian National Congress, is born.

➧ 1914: Norman Borlaug, an American agricultural scientist and anthropologist and awarded the Nobel Prize, was born.

➧ 1920: Usha Mehta, a freedom fighter and Gandhian leader, was born.

➧ 1931: The great journalist and politician Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi died.

➧ 1940: Doctor Aristu Yar Jung died.

➧ 1965: A four-day march of Martin Luther King Jr., a struggle for civil rights, was concluded.

➧ 1975: Shah Faisal, the then ruler of Saudi Arabia, was assassinated by his own nephew, Prince Faisal bin Mussad.

➧ 1980: The UK Olympic Association decided to participate in the Olympic Games to be held in Moscow in July the same year, despite the opposition and pressure from the British government.

➧ 1991: Nigerian crude became competitive in the US Gulf Coast by cutting crude prices in Nigeria.

➧ 1992: Pakistan won the title by defeating England in the final match of the World Cup with the help of captain Imran Khan's 72 runs. Pakistan defeated England by 22 runs.

➧ 2018: Australian cricket team captain Steve Smith is banned for a match after tampering with the ball in the third Test against South Africa played in South Africa.

➧ 2019: Rural Kenyan Mathematics, Physics teacher and Franciscan ascetic Peter Tabichi was awarded Teacher of the Year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

➧ 2019: NASA canceled a planned historic all-female spacewalk due to not having enough spacesuits to fit women.

➧ 2019: The first organ transplant was performed between a living HIV donor and an HIV recipient in Boston, Massachusetts. In which the kidney was transplanted.

➧ 2020: Prince Charles of the United Kingdom suffers from COVID-19.

➧ 2020: Death toll in Spain from COVID-19 surpasses China’s figure of 3,434 and ranks second worldwide after Italy with 7,850 deaths worldwide with 20,836 victims.