Today's selected anniversaries: 26th March 2024

Today's selected anniversaries: 26th March 2024

1651:

The Spanish ship San José ran aground onto coasts controlled by the indigenous Cunco people, who subsequently killed the crew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreckage_of_San_Jos%C3%A9

1697:

The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_occupation_of_Basra

1812:

The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry, who approved the legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry

1939:

Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_offensive_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War

1999:

A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian