WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. MARCH
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World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. (26. March 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. (26. March 1945)

The United States Army launches Explorer 3. (26. March 1958)

The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. (26. March 1958)

Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City (26. March 1967)

East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins. (26. March 1971)

Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India. (26. March 1974)

The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. (26. March 1975)

Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails. (26. March 1978)

Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.. (26. March 1979)

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.. (26. March 1982)

Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market. (26. March 1991)

Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved. (26. March 1991)

Local self-government was revived in 3 decades in South Korea. (26. March 1991)

The Schengen Treaty comes into effect. (26. March 1995)

Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides. (26. March 1997)

Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2. (26. March 1998)

The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. (26. March 1999)

A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. (26. March 1999)

The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration. (26. March 2005)