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This date in recent years

August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

[edit] Events

55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain.
1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert.
1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
1303 - Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor.
1346 - Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1466 - A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
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.
1818 - The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia.
1839 - The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 - American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
1914 - World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
1914 - World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 - World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1920 - 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1928 - May Donoghue drinks a bottle of ginger beer at a cafe in Paisley, Scotland and finds the remains of a snail in the bottle. She launches a civil action against the drink manufacturer which becomes one of the famous cases in English Common Law; that of Donoghue v. Stevenson.
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.
1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 - Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot.
1944 - World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1957 - The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM - a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, TASS.
1968 - The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1968 - The Beatles' "Hey Jude" is released (in a shortened version) as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label, to spend nine weeks as number one, a record for any Beatles single,.
1970 - The third annual Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last UK performance from Jimi Hendrix, opens in Great Britain.
1972 - Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
1976 - Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
1977 - Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1978 - Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy.
1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
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.
1995 - The International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of Rugby Union, thus bringing the game's amateur age to an end.
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 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2005 - Fiji's High Court rules that the island's sodomy law is unconstitutional.
2006 - Basshunter's Boten Anna is the first Swedish-speaking number 1-hit in the Dutch Top 40

[edit] Births

1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1676 - Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1789 - Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1845 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1862 - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1873 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)
1874 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
1894 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
1899 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
1901 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1904 - Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)
1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
1908 - Aubrey Schenck, film producer (d. 1999)
1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1909 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1910 - Mother Teresa, Humanitarian Activist and Worker (d. 1997)
1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist
1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
1924 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1928 - Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1934 - Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 - Yvette Vickers, American actress
1940 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor
1941 - Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
1941 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1941 - Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The searchers) (d.2005)
1942 - Vic Dana, American singer
1942 - Dennis Turner, British politician
1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1945 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1946 - Valerie Simpson, American singer
1946 - Mark Snow, American composer
1946 - Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People's Republic of China
1952 - Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
1952 - Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor
1953 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
1954 - Efren Reyes, World Pool Player
1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian singer
1957 - Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete
1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
1965 - Chris Burke, American actor
1965 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
1966 - Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1971 - Thalía, Mexican singer
1977 - Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyuu
1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
1979 - Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American actor
1980 - Chris Pine, American actor
1982 - Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
1986 - Cassie Ventura, American singer
1993 - Keke Palmer, Actress

[edit] Deaths

1278 - King Otakar II of Bohemia
1346 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
- Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
- Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
- John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
- Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1595 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter
1714 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
1785 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
1915 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German anti-Nazi diplomat (executed)
1945 - Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
1946 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
1968 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
1978 - Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
1978 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 - Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
1980 - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
1981 - Lee Elhardt Hays, american folksinger (b. 1914)
1986 - Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
1987 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1988 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989 - Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 - Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
2005 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
2006 - Rainer Barzel, former President of the German Bundestag (b. 1924)
2006 - Clyde Walcott, West Indian cricketer (b. 1926)

[edit] Holidays and observances

RC saints - St Zephyrinus, Saint Ninian, David Lewis (one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales).
Namibia - Namibia Day or Heroes' Day.
Zanzibar - Sultan's Birthday.
United States - Women's Equality Day.

[edit] External links

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