From Historynet: Today in History March 26

1517          The famous Flemish composer 

Heinrich Issac  dies.

1799          Napoleon Bonaparte  captures Jaffa, Palestine.

1804          Congress orders the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana.

1804          The territory of New Orleans is organized in the Louisiana Purchase.

1827          German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven  dies in Vienna. He had been deaf for the later part of his life, but said on his death bed "I shall hear in heaven."

1832          Famed western artist George Catlin  begins his voyage up the Missouri River aboard the American Fur Company steamship Yellowstone.

1885          Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film.

1913          The Balkan allies take Adrianople.

1918          On the Western Front, the Germans take the French towns Noyon, Roye and Lihons.

1938          Hermann Goering  warns all Jews to leave Austria.

1942          The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.

1950          Senator Joe McCarthy  names 

Owen Lattimore , an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy.

1951          The United States Air Force flag design is approved.

1953          Eisenhower  offers increased aid to the French fighting in Indochina.

1953          Dr. Jonas Salk  announces a new vaccine against polio.

1954          The United States sets off an H-bomb blast in the Marshall Islands, the second in four weeks.

1961          John F. Kennedy  meets with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan  in Washington to discuss increased Communist involvement in Laos.

1969          The Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 is launched.

1969          Writer John Kennedy Toole  commits suicide at the age of 32. His mother helps get his first and only novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published. It goes on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.

1979          The Camp David treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt.

1982          Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1989          The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin is elected.

1992          An Indianapolis court finds heavyweight boxing champion 

Mike Tyson  guilty of rape.