Saturday, March 26, 2011

March 26

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables. The New Pornographers These are the Fables Twin Cinema
2 1967 Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City The 5th Dimension Be Here Now Earthbound
3 1974 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. The Essex Green Trees Fabulous Day
4 1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. Air Biological Talkie Walkie
5 1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides. I Hate Myself Secret Lovers at the Heaven's Gate Ranch I Hate Myself
6 1999 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. The Allman Brothers Band Melissa Eat a Peach

(Historical facts about March 26 are from Wikipedia.)

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