On this day...
March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971)
- 1027 – Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1484 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
- 1636 – Utrecht University, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, was established.
- 1971 – After the Pakistan Army attempted to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in Operation Searchlight, East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh (original 1971 flag pictured), starting the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
- 1999 – The Melissa computer worm was released, infecting e-mail systems around the world.
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