Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26
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March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971).
- 1027 - Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1484 - William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
- 1971 - East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh (original 1971 flag pictured), starting the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1995 - The Schengen Agreement, a 1985 treaty to abolish systematic border controls between participating European countries, went into effect.
- 1999 - The Melissa computer worm was released, infecting e-mail systems around the world.
