Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26

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 * 590 – Byzantine emperor Maurice proclaimed his son Theodosius as his co-emperor.
 * 1484 – William Caxton (pictured) printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables.
 * 1873 – A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning the Aceh War.
 * 1885 – Perceiving that the Canadian government was failing to protect their rights, the Métis people led by Louis Riel began the North-West Rebellion.
 * 1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.
 * 1913 – First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.
 * 1917 – First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
 * 1953 – Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
 * 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
 * 1997 – Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.
 * 2010 – An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
 * Born/died this day: | Conrad Gessner |b|1516| Jacob van Eyck |d|1657|  James Hutton |d|1797|  Fred Karno |b|1866| James B. Conant |b|1893| Chonghou |d|1893|  Guido Stampacchia |b|1922| Constantin Fehrenbach |d|1926| Richard Dawkins |b|1941| Eazy-E |d|1995| Diana Wynne Jones |d|2011 |