March 26

March 26

Events

• 1169 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.

• 1344 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.

• 1697 – Safavid government troops take control of Basra

• 1913 – First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
• n the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
• 1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.

• 1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
• 1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.

The Egypt–Israel peace treaty (Arabic: معاهدة السلام المصرية الإسرائيلية‎, Mu`āhadat as-Salām al-Misrīyah al-'Isrā'īlīyah; Hebrew: הסכם השלום בין ישראל למצרים‎, Heskem HaShalom Bein Yisrael LeMitzrayim) was signed in Washington, D.C., United States on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The Egypt–Israel treaty. 

The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was signed 16 months after Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel in 1977, after intense negotiations. The main features of the treaty were mutual recognition, cessation of the state of war that had existed since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, normalization of relations and the withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had captured during the Six-Day War in 1967. Egypt agreed to leave the Sinai Peninsula demilitarized. The agreement provided for free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal, and recognition of the Strait of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as international waterways. The agreement also called for an end to Israeli military rule over the Israeli-occupied territories and the establishment of full autonomy for the Palestinian inhabitants of the territories, terms that were not implemented but which became the basis for the Oslo Accords.

The agreement notably made Egypt the first Arab state to officially recognize Israel.^[1]

• 1998 – During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.

Births

• 1925 – Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1999)

• 1943 – Mustafa Kalemli, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of the Interior

• 1957 – Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist

• 1971 – Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist

Deaths

• 922 – Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persian mystic and poet (b. 858)

• 983 – 'Adud al-Dawla, Iranian ruler (b. 936)
• 1091 – Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Andalusian poet^[10]

• 1888 – Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar (b. 1837)

• 1984 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (b. 1922)

• 2015 – Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1935)

Holidays and Observances

• Independence Day and National Day (Bangladesh), celebrates the declaration of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
• Martyr's Day or Day of Democracy (Mali)