On March 26th in U S Political History
On March 26th in 1790 US Congress passed a Naturalization Act. It required a 2-year residency.
On March 26th in 1798 Tunis, under the rule of Bey Hamuda Pasha, signed a treaty of peace and friendship with the US following negotiations with William Eaton. The American Revolutionary War veteran had been recently appointed consul to the North African kingdom.
On March 26th in 1804 Congress ordered the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi to Louisiana.
On March 26th in 1804 The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana.
On March 26th in 1863 Voters in West Virginia approved the gradual emancipation of slaves.
On March 26th in 1910 US forbade immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick.
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On March 26th in 1926 U.S. oil companies bought 190,000 tons of kerosene from Russia for $3.2 million.
On March 26th in 1930 Congress appropriated $50,000 for Inter-American highway.
On March 26th in 1943 Elsie S. Ott, US army nurse, became the 1st woman to receive air medal.
On March 26th in 1945 Japanese resistance ended on Iwo Jima.
On March 26th in 1945 US 7th Army crossed Rhine at Worms.
On March 26th in 1947 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover warned that communists had launched “a furtive attack on Hollywood” 12 years earlier.
On March 26th in 1950 Senator Joe McCarthy named Owen Lattimore, an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy.
On March 26th in 1951 The United States Air Force flag design was approved.
On March 26th in 1953 Eisenhower offered increased aid in Indochina (Vietnam) to France.
On March 26th in 1953 Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh announced that a vaccine against polio had been successfully tested in a small group of adults and children. By April 1955, the vaccine had undergone further testing and gained federal approval for public use, as shown in this photo of Salk administering the vaccine at Colfax School in Pittsburgh. Salk’s polio vaccine was so successful that by 1961 the incidence of polio had decreased by 95 percent.
On March 26th in 1954 The U.S. set off the second H-bomb blast in four weeks in the Marshall Islands at Bikini Island. The 15-megaton device was 750 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The blast contaminated the neighboring island of Rongelap and nearly 100 people on the island and other downwind atolls.
On March 26th in 1961 John F. Kennedy met with British Premier Macmillan, in Washington to discuss increased Communist involvement in Laos.
On March 26th in 1951 The United States Air Force flag design was approved.
On March 26th in 1953 Eisenhower offered increased aid in Indochina (Vietnam) to France.
On March 26th in 1953 Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh announced that a vaccine against polio had been successfully tested in a small group of adults and children. By April 1955, the vaccine had undergone further testing and gained federal approval for public use, as shown in this photo of Salk administering the vaccine at Colfax School in Pittsburgh. Salk’s polio vaccine was so successful that by 1961 the incidence of polio had decreased by 95 percent.
On March 26th in 1954 The U.S. set off the second H-bomb blast in four weeks in the Marshall Islands at Bikini Island. The 15-megaton device was 750 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The blast contaminated the neighboring island of Rongelap and nearly 100 people on the island and other downwind atolls.
On March 26th in 1961 John F. Kennedy met with British Premier Macmillan, in Washington to discuss increased Communist involvement in Laos.
On March 26th in 1970 The US conducted the Handley nuclear test in Nevada.
On March 26th in 1975 The US ratified a ban on poison gas established in the Geneva Protocol. Production, stockpiling and the use of anthrax was outlawed by an int’l. treaty of chemical and biological weapons. 140 nations adopted the Int'l. Biological Weapons Convention, but these did not include Russia. The treaty had no organization, no budget, no sanctions and no inspections provisions.
On March 26th in 1979 The Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.
On March 26th in 1982 Ground was broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial designed by Maya Lin of Yale. It was dedicated Nov 13.
On March 26th in 1983 US performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
On March 26th in 1984 US Congress established the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to distribute funds for wildlife and environmental projects.
On March 26th in 1991 The Bush administration indicated it would not aid rebels seeking to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
On March 26th in 1991 A divided US Supreme Court ruled that criminal defendants whose coerced confessions were improperly used as evidence are not always entitled to new trials.
On March 26th in 1991 Mali became a democracy after a Revolution. Gen. Amadou Toumani Toure seized power in a coup. Prior to the period of French colonialism, each of 12 ethnic groups governed itself.
On March 26th in 1993 President Clinton promised a "full-court press" against Bosnian Serbs to secure their agreement to a United Nations peace plan endorsed by Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
On March 26th in 1994 The Senate passed President Clinton's education reform measure, the "Goals 2000" bill, 63-22.
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On March 26th in 1997 The united Farm Workers Union announced that it would petition the US Environmental Agency to reinstate a 4-day period when farmworkers would stay out of strawberry fields after the application of capstan, a cancer causing fungicide. Its use has increased 7-fold in the last 6 years. 80% of the nation’s strawberry crop is grown in California.
On March 26th in 1998 In Nevada a new satellite-based survey of the Yucca Mountain site for storing radioactive wastes indicated that the Earth’s crust at the site was stretching 10 times faster than previous studies have shown.
On March 26th in 1999 American-led NATO forces launched a third night of airstrikes against Yugoslavia and 2 MiG-29 fighters were shot down as Serbian troops continued to sweep ethnic Albanian villages in Kosovo.
On March 26th in 2001 California state regulators proposed a 40% rate increase to help remedy the state’s energy crisis.
On March 26th in 2002 The US Supreme Court upheld regulations that allowed federal housing officials to evict an entire household if even one member is arrested for drug violations.
On March 26th in 2003 In the 8th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom Baghdad officials said two cruise missiles hit a residential area, killing 14 people. Iraq said 36 civilians were killed and 215 wounded in US airstrikes on Baghdad. Some 1,000 US paratroopers jumped into northern Iraq as sandstorms eased.
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On March 26th in 2003 Federal energy regulators (FERC) validated California claims to 2000-2001 overcharges for energy and said the state is owed $3.3 billion in refunds from Enron and 5 other energy firms. California called for $9 billion.
On March 26th in 2007 Intel Corp. announced it will build a $2.5 billion chip factory in China, giving the US company a bigger presence in the booming Chinese market and boosting Beijing's efforts to attract high-tech investment. Intel also unveiled a prototype chip that uses optical connections to increase speed. Products using the technology were expected to appear within 3 years.
On March 26th in 2009 The Obama administration unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financial system designed to impose greater regulation on major players like hedge funds. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers that the changes are needed to fix the flaws exposed by the current financial crisis, the worst to hit the country in seven decades.
On March 26th in 2009 The US Internal Revenue Service announced new steps aimed at getting taxpayers hiding money in offshore accounts to pay up, promising not to file criminal charges for those who voluntarily fess up to hiding money overseas.
On March 26th in 2010 President Obama concluded a new strategic arms reduction treaty in a call with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
On March 26th in 2010 The Obama administration unveiled a revamped Home Affordable Mortgage Program
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