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Events on March 26

• 1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II and his wife Gisela of Swabia in Rome as Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1348 The construction of Prague's New Town begins with Charles IV laying the foundation stone for the city wall. It is the youngest and largest of the medieval cities that today form Prague's historic city centre.
• 1828 The Austrian composer Franz Schubert gives his first and only public concert at the venue of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna.
• 1851 The scientist Léon Foucault conducts a third experiment with the pendulum named after him, this time in the Panthéon in Paris. With the help of a rope hanging down 67 metres, he uses the experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation.
• 1949 The Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research is founded in Munich. The aim of the Fraunhofer Society is to conduct application-oriented research for the direct benefit of companies and for the benefit of society.
• 1957 The Federal Constitutional Court confirms the continued validity of the Reich Concordat concluded in 1933 between the Holy See and the German Reich.
• 1973 The Swedish pop group ABBA releases its debut album Ring Ring.
• 1979 A breach occurs in the Main-Danube Canal in the Katzwang district of Nuremberg. 120 houses are caught in the floodwaters, a girl dies, and material damage of approximately twelve million DM is caused.
• 1990 The German animated film Balance by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein is awarded an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
• 1995 The Schengen Agreement enters into force for the first seven EU states, under which the signatory states waive controls on goods and passenger traffic at their common borders.
• 1999 The computer virus Melissa, spread via email, blocks company computers and causes approximately 80 million US dollars in damage. The creator is soon apprehended and later sentenced.
• 2006 The Tiergarten Spreebogen tunnel in Berlin is opened to traffic.

Born on March 26

• 1881 Guccio Gucci, Italian entrepreneur, founder of the fashion label Gucci
• 1884 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist
• 1900 Angela Maria Autsch, German nun ("Angel of Auschwitz")
• 1923 Gert Bastian, German general and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1931 Leonard Nimoy, American actor, director and film producer
• 1940 Nancy Pelosi, American politician, Member and Speaker of the House of Representatives
• 1941 Richard Dawkins, English zoologist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist
• 1960 Jennifer Grey, American actress
• 1980 Pascal Hens, German handball player
• 1990 Hanno Behrens, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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