This Day in History " March 26 "



Events

1872 - An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale in the Owens Valley in California. 
1909- Russian troops invade Persia to support the Shah Muhammad Ali at the head of a constitutional government. 
1931- New Delhi becomes the capital of India, instead of Calcutta.
1938-Nazi German forces commander Hermann Goering asked all Jews to leave Austria. 

1945 - Allied forces occupies the German city of Frankfurt just before the end of World War II. 
1953 - American scientist Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine against polio. 
1971 - Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan.

Famous Birthdays

1031 - Malcolm III, King of Scotland. 
1659 - English philosopher William Wollaston.
 1875 - Syngman Rhee, South Korea's president. 
1899 - James Bryant Conant, the world Kime US, has studied the hemoglobin and chlorophyll. 
1916 - Christian Anvencen, an American chemist, won the "Nobel" prize in 1972. 
1938 - Anthony James Leggett, an American scientist physics Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. 
1951 - Carl Wieman, the world of American physics Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.

Mortality

1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer. 
1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 
1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, president of Guinea. 
2005 - death of James Callaghan, former British prime minister for 92 years.
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