What happened on 26 March?

7 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 transports reach Auschwitz-Birkenau The first mass transports arrive at the vast new camp built beside Auschwitz, where gas chambers and crematoria are engineered for murder on an industrial scale. Trains will come f
4. 1944 Born: Diana Ross American singer; lead of The Supremes.
5. 1918 Foch made Allied supreme commander at Doullens With the German spring offensive tearing through the British line, the Allies finally agree to a single commander.
6. 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
7. 2015 Saudi Arabia and UAE intervene in Yemen Coalition launches air war against Houthi forces; long humanitarian crisis follows.