Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26
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March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971), Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom (2006), Laetare Sunday in Western Christianity (2006).
- 1871 - The Paris Commune was formally established.
- 1881 - Domnitor Carol I (pictured) was proclaimed the first King of Romania, beginning the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty.
- 1973 - The first of more than eight thousand episodes of the American soap opera The Young and the Restless was televised.
- 1999 - The Melissa computer worm was released, infecting e-mail systems around the world.
