This day in history
Today is tuesday, March 26, the 86th day of 2024. there are 280 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is 89. House Speaker nancy Pelosi is 84. Author Erica Jong is 82. Journalist bob Woodward is 81. Singer Diana Ross is 80. Aerosmith singer Steven tyler is 76. Singer and comedian vicki lawrence is 75. Comedian Martin Short is 74. former transportation secretary Elaine Chao is 71. Actor Keira Knightley is 39. Rapper J-Kwon is 38. Actor Carly Chaikin is 34.
▶ In 1812, an earthquake devastated Caracas, causing an estimated 26,000 deaths, according to the US Geological Survey.
▶ In 1945, during World War ii, iwo Jima was fully secured by US forces following a final, desperate attack by Japanese soldiers.
▶ In 1979, a peace treaty was signed by israeli Prime Minister Menachem begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and witnessed by President Carter at the White House.
▶ In 1982, groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington, D.C., for the vietnam veterans Memorial.
▶ In 1988, Jesse Jackson stunned fellow Democrats by soundly defeating Michael S. Dukakis in Michigan’s Democratic presidential caucuses.
▶ In 1992, a judge in indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike tyson to six years in prison for raping a Miss black America contestant. (tyson ended up serving three years.)
▶ In 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who committed suicide were found inside a rented mansion in Rancho Santa fe, Calif.
▶ In 2010, the US and Russia sealed the first major nuclear weapons treaty in nearly two decades, agreeing to slash the former Cold War rivals’ warhead arsenals by nearly onethird.
▶ In 2014, osama bin laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, was convicted in new York for his role as Al Qaeda’s fiery chief spokesman after 9/11. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)
▶ In 2020, the US surpassed official Chinese government numbers to become the country with the most reported coronavirus infections.
▶ Iin 2021, Dominion voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox news, saying the cable news giant falsely claimed that the voting company rigged the 2020 election.
▶ Iin 2022, President biden said in Poland that vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” dramatically escalating the rhetoric against the Russian leader after his brutal invasion of Ukraine.
▶ Last year, Ukraine’s government called for an emergency meeting of the Un Security Council to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in belarus.