March 26 in history: • 1169 – Saladin (depicted on coin) was inaugurated as vizier of Egypt. → go there • 1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident. → go there • 1974 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement. → go there • 1991 – Singapore Airlines Flight 117 was hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and diverted to Changi Airport. → go there Died 1776: Samuel Ward Wiki link Died 1926: Constantin Fehrenbach Wiki link Born 1985: Keira Knightley Wiki link Died 2011: Diana Wynne Jones Wiki link Pictured: Saladin.