March 26, 1981 (Thursday)
- Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc.: Comedienne Carol Burnett won a verdict of 1.6 million dollars against the National Enquirer for libel. In its issue of March 12, 1976, the Enquirer had run a story entitled "Carol Burnett and Henry K. in Row", alleging that Burnett had been disruptive "in a Washington restaurant", and implying that she had been intoxicated.
- The British Social Democratic Party was launched at the Connaught Rooms in London.
- Born: Jay Sean, British rapper, as Kamaljit Singh Jhooti in London
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“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)