August 26

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

• Monday, August 26, 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain
• Saturday, August 26, 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
• Friday, August 26, 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.
• Friday, August 26, 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
• Wednesday, August 26, 1429 - Joan of Arc enters Paris
• Friday, August 26, 1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pieta
• Wednesday, August 26, 1778 - The first ascent of Triglav, the higest mountain of Slovenia
• Wednesday, August 26, 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
• Monday, August 26, 1839 - Amistad captured off Long Island
• Thursday, August 26, 1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph
• Tuesday, August 26, 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run begins in the American Civil War
• Sunday, August 26, 1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa
• Wednesday, August 26, 1914 - Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
• Thursday, August 26, 1920 - 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote
• Saturday, August 26, 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.
• Saturday, August 26, 1944 - Charles de Gaulle enters Paris
• Monday, August 26, 1957 - Russia tests an ICBM
• Tuesday, August 26, 1958 - English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams dies at the age of 85
• Monday, August 26, 1968 - Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago
• Monday, August 26, 1968 - The Beatles' "Hey Jude" was released as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label.
• Saturday, August 26, 1972 - Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany
• Thursday, August 26, 1976 - Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France
• Saturday, August 26, 1978 - Pope John Paul I elevated to Papacy
• Saturday, August 26, 1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 33 spacecraft
• Tuesday, August 26, 1986 - Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon
• Wednesday, August 26, 1987 - President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day
• Friday, August 26, 1988 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
• Monday, August 26, 2002 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
• Monday, August 26, 2002 - Earth Summit 2002 began in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Births

• Wednesday, August 26, 1676 - Robert Walpole, British prime minister in 1721-1742 (d. 1745)
• Friday, August 26, 1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon (d. 1810)
• Monday, August 26, 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, chemist (d. 1794)
• Tuesday, August 26, 1845 - Mary Anne Nicholls, the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
• Tuesday, August 26, 1873 - Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube (d. 1961)
• Thursday, August 26, 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, art critic (d. 1918)
• Thursday, August 26, 1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
• Friday, August 26, 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector (d. 1979)
• Sunday, August 26, 1900 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
• Monday, August 26, 1901 - General Maxwell Taylor, soldier (d. 1987)
• Friday, August 26, 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, writer (d. 1986)
• Sunday, August 26, 1906 - Albert Sabin, polio researcher (d. 1993)
• Thursday, August 26, 1909 - Jim Davis, actor (d. 1981)
• Wednesday, August 26, 1914 - Julio Cortázar, writer (d. 1984)
• Friday, August 26, 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, journalist
• Saturday, August 26, 1922 - Irving R. Levine, journalist
• 1934 - Tom Heinsohn, basketball Hall-of-Famer and commentator
• Monday, August 26, 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1984
• Tuesday, August 26, 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director
• Wednesday, August 26, 1942 - Dennis Turner, Labour Party member of Parliament since 1987
• Saturday, August 26, 1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
• Monday, August 26, 1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer
• Tuesday, August 26, 1952 - Michael Jeter, actor (d. 2003)
• Friday, August 26, 1960 - Branford Marsalis, saxophonist, bandleader
• Thursday, August 26, 1971 - Thalía, Mexican actress
• Thursday, August 26, 1976 - Johann Wilkinson, South-Africa Programmer
• Tuesday, August 26, 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, actor

Deaths

• Friday, August 26, 1278 - Premysl Ottokar II (b. c. 1230)
• Monday, August 26, 1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
• Tuesday, August 26, 1930 - Lon Chaney, actor
• Sunday, August 26, 1945 - Franz Werfel, writer
• Monday, August 26, 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator
• Tuesday, August 26, 1975 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
• Saturday, August 26, 1978 - Charles Boyer, actor
• Sunday, August 26, 1979 - Mika Waltari, author
• Tuesday, August 26, 1980 - Tex Avery, cartoonist
• Wednesday, August 26, 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU
• Tuesday, August 26, 1986 - Ted Knight, actor
• Saturday, August 26, 1989 - Irving Stone, author
• Saturday, August 26, 2001 - Aaliyah, singer

Holidays and observances

• Namibia Day (Namibia)
• Sultan's Birthday (Zanzibar)
• St Zephyrinus Day

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