Today is Saturday, March 26, the 86th day of 2016. There are 280 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1827, composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna.
In 1874, poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.
In 1892, poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey.
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In 1945, during World War II, Iwo Jima was fully secured by U.S. forces following a final, desperate attack by Japanese soldiers.
In 1996, former U.S. senator and secretary of state Edmund Muskie died in Washington, D.C.
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