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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1027",
+            "text":" John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Salian dynasty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1147",
+            "text":" Jewish community in Cologne fasts to commemorate anti-Jewish violence"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1484",
+            "text":" William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1526",
+            "text":" King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1534",
+            "text":" Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1552",
+            "text":" Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1636",
+            "text":" University of Utrecht opening ceremony"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1668",
+            "text":" England takes control of Bombay, India"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1692",
+            "text":" King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1780",
+            "text":" 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1790",
+            "text":" US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1793",
+            "text":" Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1799",
+            "text":" Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1804",
+            "text":" Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1804",
+            "text":" Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1812",
+            "text":" Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela; about 20,000 die"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1821",
+            "text":" Franz Grillparzer's \"Das Goldene Vliess\" premieres in Vienna"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1824",
+            "text":" 1st performance of Beethoven's \"Missa Solemnis\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1830",
+            "text":" The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1839",
+            "text":" 1st Henley Royal Regatta"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1845",
+            "text":" Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1845",
+            "text":" Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1852",
+            "text":" Decree regarding streets of Paris passed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1856",
+            "text":" NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1859",
+            "text":" 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1862",
+            "text":" Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1863",
+            "text":" Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1871",
+            "text":" Paris Commune founded"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1872",
+            "text":" 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1872",
+            "text":" Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1878",
+            "text":" Hastings College of Law founded in California"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1878",
+            "text":" Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1881",
+            "text":" Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1885",
+            "text":" Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1886",
+            "text":" 1st cremation in England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1889",
+            "text":" Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1889",
+            "text":" Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1889",
+            "text":" South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1895",
+            "text":" King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1900",
+            "text":" 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1903",
+            "text":" American Hotel opens in Amsterdam"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1909",
+            "text":" August Strindberg's \"Bjalb-jarle-ti\" premieres in Stockholm"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1909",
+            "text":" In support of Mohammed Ali Shah's coup d'etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1910",
+            "text":" US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1910",
+            "text":" William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1913",
+            "text":" Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1913",
+            "text":" Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1915",
+            "text":" Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1916",
+            "text":" Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1917",
+            "text":" Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1917",
+            "text":" British win a battle against Turks at Gaza"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1923",
+            "text":" Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1924",
+            "text":" Premiere of Bernard Shaw's \"Saint Joan\" in London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1926",
+            "text":" ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1926",
+            "text":" The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1927",
+            "text":" Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1927",
+            "text":" Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1930",
+            "text":" Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1931",
+            "text":" Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1931",
+            "text":" Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1931",
+            "text":" New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1934",
+            "text":" Driving tests introduced in Britain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1935",
+            "text":" \"RvJ\" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1936",
+            "text":" 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1936",
+            "text":" 200\" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1936",
+            "text":" Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1937",
+            "text":" Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1937",
+            "text":" William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1938",
+            "text":" NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1940",
+            "text":" Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1942",
+            "text":" 1st \"Eichmann transport\" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1942",
+            "text":" 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1942",
+            "text":" Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pa, kills 21"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1942",
+            "text":" German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1943",
+            "text":" Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1943",
+            "text":" Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1944",
+            "text":" 705 British bombers attack Essen"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1945",
+            "text":" De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1945",
+            "text":" Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1945",
+            "text":" Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1945",
+            "text":" US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"26",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1945",
+            "text":" Venray soccer team forms"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]