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
- 1071 - Turks defeat Byzantines at Manzikert
- 1346 - Battle of Cr�cy
- 1429 - Joan of Arc enters Paris
- 1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pieta
- 1789 - Declaration of Human Rights approved by Constituent Assembly at Versailles
- 1839 - Amistad captured off Long Island
- 1847 - Liberia proclaimed independent
- 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
- 1944 - Charles de Gaulle enters Paris
- 1957 - Russia tests an ICBM
- 1968 - Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago
- 1972 - Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany
- 1978 - Pope John Paul I elevated to Papacy
- 1978 - [[Sigmund J�hn]] becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 33 spacecraft
- 1986 - Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon
- 1987 - President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day
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Births
- 1676 - Robert Walpole, British prime minister
- 1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon
- 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, chemist
- 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin, actor (+ 1865)
- 1873 - Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube (+ 1961)
- 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, art critic (+ 1918)
- 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector (+ 1979)
- 1901 - General Maxwell Taylor, soldier (+ 1987)
- 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, writer (+ 1986)
- 1906 - Albert Sabin, polio researcher
- 1915 - Jim Davis, actor
- 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, journalist
- 1922 - Irving R. Levine, journalist
- 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1984
- 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director
- 1944 - Richard Alexander Walter Windsor, Duke of Gloucester
- 1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer
- 1952 - Michael Jeter, actor
- 1960 - Branford Marsalis, saxophonist, bandleader
- 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, actor
Deaths
- 1850 - Louis-Philippe of France
- 1930 - Lon Chaney, actor
- 1945 - Franz Werfel, writer
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator
- 1975 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1977 - H.A. Rey, author
- 1978 - Charles Boyer, actor
- 1979 - Mika Waltari, author
- 1980 - Tex Avery, cartoonist
- 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU
- 1984 - Truman Capote, author
- 1986 - Ted Knight, actor
- 1989 - Irving Stone, author
Holidays and observances
See Also:
August 25 - August 27 - July 26 - September 26 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "August 26, 2003" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_26 August 26, 2003
