History for March 26 - On-This-Day.com:
Strother Martin 1919 - Actor, Leonard Nimoy 1931 - Actor ("Star Trek"), James Caan 1939 - Actor
Diana Ross 1944 - Singer, Steven Tyler 1948 - Singer (Aerosmith), Kenny Chesney 1968 - Country singer
1910 - The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and carriers of disease from settling in the U.S.
1937 - Spinach growers in Crystal City, TX, erected a statue of Popeye.
1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine that would prevent poliomyelitis.
1979 - The Camp David treaty was signed by Israel and Egypt that ended the 31-year state of war between the countries.
1989 - The first free elections took place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin was elected.
1997 - The 39 bodies of Heaven's Gate members are found in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The group had committed suicide thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following behind the comet Hale-Bopp.
1999 - In Michigan, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for giving a terminally ill man a lethal injection and putting it all on videotape on September 17, 1998 for "60 Minutes."
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