August 26 Events |
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| August 26th, 2003 (August 26 2003) | Event | Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. | |
| August 26th, 2002 (August 26 2002) | Event | Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. | |
| August 26th, 1999 (August 26 1999) | Event | Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds. | Michael Johns Quotes |
| August 26th, 1997 (August 26 1997) | Event | Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed. | |
| August 26th, 1996 (August 26 1996) | Event | Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| August 26th, 1988 (August 26 1988) | Event | Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| August 26th, 1987 (August 26 1987) | Event | President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| August 26th, 1983 (August 26 1983) | Event | Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain. | |
| August 26th, 1980 (August 26 1980) | Event | John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. | |
| August 26th, 1978 (August 26 1978) | Event | Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy. | |
| August 26th, 1978 (August 26 1978) | Event | Sigmund Jahn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft. | |
| August 26th, 1977 (August 26 1977) | Event | Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec | |
| August 26th, 1968 (August 26 1968) | Event | The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| August 26th, 1957 (August 26 1957) | Event | The USSR announces the successful test of ana "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS. | |
| August 26th, 1944 (August 26 1944) | Event | World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| August 26th, 1942 (August 26 1942) | Event | Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am 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. | |
| August 26th, 1940 (August 26 1940) | Event | Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Felix Eboue, France s first black colonial governor. | |
| August 26th, 1939 (August 26 1939) | Event | The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York. | |
| August 26th, 1924 (August 26 1924) | Event | (August 13 Old Style) Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor in systematic ethnic cleansing. One of the first cases of ethic cleansing in the 20th Century. | |
| August 26th, 1922 (August 26 1922) | Event | Turkish Army started the last attack on Greeks in the Turkish War of Independence. | |
| August 26th, 1920 (August 26 1920) | Event | 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote. | |
| August 26th, 1914 (August 26 1914) | Event | 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. | |
| August 26th, 1914 (August 26 1914) | Event | World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau. | |
| August 26th, 1914 (August 26 1914) | Event | World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. | |
| August 26th, 1883 (August 26 1883) | Event | Eruption of Mount Krakatoa. | |
| August 26th, 1862 (August 26 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins. | |
| August 26th, 1858 (August 26 1858) | Event | First news dispatch by telegraph. | |
| August 26th, 1839 (August 26 1839) | Event | The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island. | |
| August 26th, 1818 (August 26 1818) | Event | The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia. | |
| August 26th, 1789 (August 26 1789) | Event | Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles. | |
| August 26th, 1778 (August 26 1778) | Event | The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia. | |
| August 26th, 1768 (August 26 1768) | Event | HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England. | |
| August 26th, 1748 (August 26 1748) | Event | The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| August 26th, 1498 (August 26 1498) | Event | Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pieta. | |
| August 26th, 1466 (August 26 1466) | Event | A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered. | |
| August 26th, 1346 (August 26 1346) | Event | 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 Crecy. | |
| August 26th, 1303 (August 26 1303) | Event | Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor. | |
| August 26th, 1278 (August 26 1278) | Event | Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Durnkrut in Moravia. | |
| August 26th, 1071 (August 26 1071) | Event | Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. | |
