What happened on 26 March?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty First Arab-Israeli peace treaty (Camp David Accords aftermath).
2. 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War East Pakistan secedes after genocidal repression and Indian intervention.
3. 1942 The mass transports reach Auschwitz The first mass transports arrive at the Auschwitz complex, where gas chambers and crematoria are engineered for murder on an industrial scale. Trains will come from every corner of
4. 1944 Born: Diana Ross American singer; lead of The Supremes.
5. 1184 BCE The embassy to Achilles Iliad 9: Odysseus, Phoenix and Ajax bring Agamemnon's offer of treasure and Briseis returned — and Achilles refuses it all.
6. 1918 Foch made Allied coordinator at Doullens With the German spring offensive tearing through the British line, the Allies agree that Foch will coordinate their armies on the Western Front, the first step towards a single com
7. 1989 The Soviet Union holds its first contested elections For the first time since 1917, Soviet voters get a choice — and use it to humiliate the Party: dozens of unopposed officials lose to 'against all', while Yeltsin takes Moscow with
8. 1184 BCE The night raid: Dolon and Rhesus Iliad 10: Odysseus and Diomedes catch the Trojan spy Dolon in the dark, then slaughter the Thracian king Rhesus and drive off his white horses.
9. 2000 John Paul II prays at the Western Wall On a jubilee pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the pope leaves a note asking forgiveness for Christian persecution of the Jews in a crevice of the Western Wall.
10. 2015 Saudi Arabia and UAE intervene in Yemen Coalition launches air war against Houthi forces; long humanitarian crisis follows.
11. 1920 Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald's debut novel of Princeton and flappers makes him famous overnight at 23 — and wins him Zelda Sayre, whom he marries a week later.