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• ...that the medieval wall paintings in the Norfolk church of Crostwight include an image of the Seven Deadly Sins (pictured)?
• ...that when the 1987 America's Cup was raced off Fremantle, Western Australia it was the first time for 132 years that the regatta had not been hosted by the New York Yacht Club?
• ...that activist Michael Mansell convinced Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to recognise an Aboriginal Australian passport to draw world attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights?
• ...that the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh?
• ...that Merril Sandoval did not reveal to his family that he had served as a Navajo Code Talker in the United States Marines during World War II until records of the unit were declassified in 1968?
• ...that the Lackham campus of Wiltshire College created a "virtual farm" in 2005 to avoid limitations to practical teaching caused by foot and mouth disease?
• ...that the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade?

• African Union and Comoros forces invade the rebel-held island of Anjouan.
• The Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party wins Bhutan's first democratic general election.
• Kuomintang candidate Ma Ying-jeou (pictured) is elected President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Two referenda on joining the United Nations fail due to low turnout.
• A permanent coalition government agreement is reached in Belgium, ending a nine-month stalemate, as Yves Leterme is sworn in as Prime Minister.
• The wreckages of HMAS Sydney and the HSK Kormoran are located off the coast of Western Australia 66 years after their mutual destruction in battle.
• Protests in Tibet against the Chinese government result in numerous fatalities.

March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971).

• 1027 – Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1636 – Utrecht University, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, was established.
• 1971 – After the Pakistan Army attempted to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in Operation Searchlight, East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh (original 1971 flag pictured), starting the Bangladesh Liberation War.
• 1973 – The Young and the Restless, the most watched daytime drama on American television since 1988, was first broadcast.

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