August 26
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining. Events100 BC-AD 189955 BC - Julius Caesar invades BritainAD 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert1278 - 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 Versailles1839 - 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.
1900-19991914 - 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 Chicago1968 - 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.
2000-20992002 - 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.
Births1200-18991676 - 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)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)
1900-19991900 - 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, journalist1922 - Irving R. Levine, journalist1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist1934 - Tom Heinsohn, basketball Hall-of-Famer and commentator1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director1942 - Dennis Turner, Labour Party member of Parliament1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer1952 - Michael Jeter, actor (d. 2003)1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader1971 - Thalía, Mexican actress1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American child actor1988 - Nathan Dixon, actress 1991 - Nelson Carr , grandson of Peter D. Carr
Deaths1200-18991278 - Premysl Ottokar II (b. c. 1230)1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1900-19991930 - Lon Chaney, Sr, actor1945 - Franz Werfel, writer1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer1968 - Kay Francis, actress, (b. 1899)1974 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator1975 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)1978 - Charles Boyer, actor1979 - Mika Waltari, author1980 - Tex Avery, cartoonist1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU1986 - Ted Knight, actor1989 - Irving Stone, author
2000-20992001 - Aaliyah, singer2003 - Jim Wacker, American college football coach2004 - Laura Branigan, singer
Holidays and observancesNamibia Day or Heroes' Day (Namibia)Sultan's Birthday (Zanzibar)St Zephyrinus Day
External links BBC: On This Day
August 25 - August 27 - July 26 - September 26 -- listing of all days
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