August 26
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August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining.
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Events
- 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain
- AD 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
- 1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeated Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
- 1346 - Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights was established at the Battle of Crécy.
- 1429 - Joan of Arc enters Paris.
- 1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pieta.
- 1778 - The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia.
- 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
- 1839 - Amistad captured off Long Island.
- 1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
- 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run begins in the American Civil War.
- 1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
- 1914 - Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg.
- 1920 - 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
- 1939 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1944 - Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
- 1957 - Russia tests an ICBM.
- 1968 - Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago
- 1968 - The Beatles' Hey Jude was released as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label.
- 1972 - Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
- 1976 - Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1978 - Pope John Paul I elevated to Papacy,
- 1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 33 spacecraft.
- 1986 - Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
- 1987 - President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
- 1988 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
- 1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
- 2002 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
- 2002 - Earth Summit 2002 began in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 2003 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Births
- 1676 - Robert Walpole, British prime minister in 1721-1742 (d. 1745)
- 1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon (d. 1810)
- 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
- 1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
- 1845 - Mary Anne Nicholls, the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 1873 - Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube (d. 1961)
- 1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
- 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, art critic (d. 1918)
- 1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the IMRO, responsible for the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1990)
- 1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
- 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
- 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, Anglo-American writer (d. 1986)
- 1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
- 1909 - Jim Davis, actor (d. 1981)
- 1914 - Julio Cortázar, writer (d. 1984)
- 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, journalist
- 1922 - Irving R. Levine, journalist
- 1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
- 1934 - Tom Heinsohn, basketball Hall-of-Famer and commentator
- 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
- 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director
- 1942 - Dennis Turner, Labour Party member of Parliament
- 1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
- 1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer
- 1952 - Michael Jeter, actor (d. 2003)
- 1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
- 1971 - Thalía, Mexican actress
- 1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
- 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American child actor
Deaths
- 1278 - Premysl Ottokar II (b. c. 1230)
- 1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, Queen of Sweden (b. 1516)
- 1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
- 1915 - John Bunny American silent film comedian (b. 1863)
- 1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., actor
- 1945 - Franz Werfel, writer
- 1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer
- 1968 - Kay Francis, actress, (b. 1899)
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator
- 1975 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
- 1978 - Charles Boyer, actor
- 1979 - Mika Waltari, author
- 1980 - Tex Avery, cartoonist
- 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU
- 1986 - Ted Knight, actor
- 1989 - Irving Stone, author
- 2001 - Aaliyah, singer
- 2003 - Jim Wacker, American college football coach
- 2004 - Laura Branigan, singer
Holidays and observances
- Namibia Day or Heroes' Day (Namibia)
- Sultan's Birthday (Zanzibar)
- St Zephyrinus Day
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26)
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