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What happened in history on this day: August 26?
On August 26 in ...
- 1346 - English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy.
- 1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate.
- 1676 - Birth of Robert Walpole (Whig) British Prime Minister (1721-42).
- 1728 - Birth of Johann Lambert Switzerland, mathematician, proved pi is irrational.
- 1740 - Birth of Joseph Montgolfier France, aeronaut (ballooning).
- 1743 - Birth of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier in Paris, France; father of modern chemistry (Oxygen).
- 1789 - French National Assembly issues "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen".
- 1791 - John Fitch is granted US patent for his working steamboat.
- 1819 - Birth of Prince Albert in Saxon; duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; Consort to Queen Victoria.
- 1820 - Birth of James Harlan; American politician (Republican-Iowa)/US Seretary of Interior (1865-66).
- 1850 - Birth of Charles Richet; French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel Prize 1913).
- 1873 - Birth of Lee De Forest in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA; inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube).
- 1874 - Sixteen blacks are lynched in Tennessee.
- 1875 - Birth of John Buchan in Scotland; Governor-General of Canada/writer.
- 1880 - Birth of Guillaume Apollinaire in France; poet/movie critic (Alcoola).
- 1883 - Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions; kills 36,000.
- 1884 - Birth of Earl Biggers; author ("Charlie Chan" detective series).
- 1885 - Birth of Jules Romains in France; novelist/dramatist/poet (Men of Good Will).
- 1896 - The Philippines' revolutionary secret society Kataastaasan Kagalanggalang Katipunan begins armed conflict with Spanish troops.
- 1901 - Birth of General Maxwell D Taylor; US Army chief of staff.
- 1904 - Birth of Christopher Isherwood in England; novelist/playwright (I Am a Camera).
- 1906 - Birth of Albert B Sabin; polio vaccine discoverer.
- 1907 - Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.
- 1909 - Birth of Frank Gasparro in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; US Mint Chief Engraver (1965-81).
- 1910 - Birth of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu AKA Mother Theresa in Skopje, Albania; founded Missionaries of Charity in India, Nobel Peace Prize 1979, Bharat Ratna 1980 (dies 1997).
- 1911 - Birth of Lester Lanin; orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits).
- 1914 - Birth of Julio Cortázar in Argentina; writer (We Love Glenda So Much).
- 1914 - Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg.
- 1915 - Birth of Jim Davis in Edgerton, Missouri, USA; actor (Jack Ewing - Dallas).
- 1916 - Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher Joe Bush no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0.
- 1916 - New York Yankees turn triple-play beating Saint Louis Browns 10-6.
- 1917 - Birth of Jan Clayton in Tularosa, New Mexico, USA; actress (Ellen Miller - Lassie).
- 1917 - Birth of William French Smith in Wilton, New Hampshire, USA; US Attorney General (1981-85).
- 1919 - Birth of Ronny Graham in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico and the Man).
- 1920 - US Constitution 19th Amendment passes - women's suffrage granted.
- 1921 - Birth of Benjamin C Bradlee; journalist (Washington Post).
- 1925 - Ted Rogers of Canada manufactures the world's first commercial alternating current tube.
- 1927 - Birth of Juliette Augustina Sysak AKA Juliette Augustina Cavazzi AKA Juliette in Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; singer (CBC's Our Pet, Juliette).
- 1931 - Death of Hamaguchi Osachi, 27th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1870).
- 1932 - Birth of Joe H Engle in Abilene, Kansas, USA; Brigadier General US Air Force/astronaut (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I).
- 1935 - Birth of Geraldine Ferraro; Representative-Democrat-New York, first female major-party Vice Presidential candidate.
- 1937 - Birth of Tom Heinsohn; NBA star/coach (Boston Celtics).
- 1938 - Birth of Francine York in Aurora, Minnesota, USA; actress (Slattery's People).
- 1938 - Montreal Maroons hockey team is dropped from the NHL.
- 1939 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast (W2XBS New York), a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
- 1939 - In Canada, the militia is called to duty to protect coastal defences and vulnerable industrial points.
- 1942 - 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France.
- 1942 - Birth of John E Blaha in San Antonio, Texas, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (STS 29, 33, STS 43).
- 1942 - Birth of Vic Dana in Buffalo, New York, USA; singer/dancer (Talent Scouts).
- 1943 - Birth of Ulf Sundelin in Sweden; yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968).
- 1944 - Romania declares war on Germany.
- 1947 - Birth of Candy Moore in Maplewood, New Jersey, USA; actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy and Champ).
- 1948 - Birth of Jet Black; rocker (Stranglers - "Dreamtime").
- 1948 - Birth of Valerie Simpson in the Bronx, New York, USA; singer, Ashford's partner ("Like a Rock").
- 1949 - Birth of Bob Cowsill; singer (The Cowsills).
- 1952 - Birth of John Kinsella; American swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972).
- 1954 - Birth of Steve Wright; Britain's wacky DJ.
- 1955 - First color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup).
- 1957 - Birth of Rick Hansen in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada; 1986 round the world trip in wheelchair raising money for disabled, Man in Motion World Tour.
- 1957 - Birth of Alex Trevino; catcher (Los Angeles Dodgers).
- 1957 - USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile.
- 1960 - Birth of Branford Marsalis; bandleader, actor (Bring on the Night).
- 1961 - Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 1961 - Birth of Jimmy Olander; Guitarist (Diamond Rio).
- 1962 - Minnesota Twins' Jack Kralick no-hits Kansas City Athletics 1-0.
- 1963 - Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger - Mr Ed), dies at age 67.
- 1964 - Lyndon Johnson nominated for President at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- 1965 - Birth of Chris Burke; actor with down syndrome (Life Goes On).
- 1966 - Death of Art Baker at age 67 of a heart attack; host (You Asked For It TV show).
- 1966 - Birth of Shirley Manson; singer (Garbage).
- 1966 - Birth of Dan Vickrey; guitarist (Counting Crows).
- 1969 - Birth of Adrian Young; drummer (No Doubt).
- 1970 - Birth of Melissa McCarthy; actress (Samantha Who?, Gilmore Girls).
- 1971 - New York Giants football team announces its leaving the Bronx for New Jersey in 1975.
- 1971 - Baltimore Orioles' Don Buford strikes out five times in a game.
- 1972 - New York Cosmos beat Saint Louis Stars, 2-1 to win the NASL championship.
- 1972 - (to September 10) The Games of the XX Olympiad are held in Munich, Germany.
- 1973 - 10-year-old Mary Boitano wins 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners.
- 1973 - University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing.
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh dies at age 72 in his Hawaiian home.
- 1974 - Soyuz 15 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.
- 1975 - Birth of Tyler Connolly; singer (Theory Of A Deadman).
- 1976 - Death of Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara, California (born in Perleberg, Germany); German/Austrian/American opera singer.
- 1976 - Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at age 65.
- 1977 - In the South Sandwich Islands, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurs, about 2700 kilometers east of the southern tip of Argentina.
- 1978 - Death of Charles Boyer at age 78; actor (Four-Star Playhouse TV show, The Rogues TV show) (born 1899).
- 1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I, succeeding Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.
- 1978 - Soyuz 31 carries two cosmonauts (one the first East German, Sigmund Jähn) to Salyut 6.
- 1979 - Death of Alvin Karpis, last of America's depression-era criminals (born 1907).
- 1980 - Death of Tex Avery, American cartoonist and creator of Looney Toons (born 1908).
- 1980 - Birth of Macaulay Culkin; American actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Kings, Wish Kid).
- 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, dies.
- 1982 - NASA launches Telesat-F.
- 1983 - Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at age 61 of cancer.
- 1984 - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad.
- 1984 - Zdena Silvaha (Czechoslovakia) throws discus 74.55m (women's world record).
- 1985 - Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray knocks in nine RBIs in a game versus California Angels.
- 1986 - Jennifer Levin strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park, New York.
- 1986 - Death of Ted Knight at age 62 of colon cancer; actor (Ted Baxter - Mary Tyler Moore TV show).
- 1987 - Death of Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897).
- 1988 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France (where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006).
- 1988 - Birth of Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este.
- 1989 - The Trumbull (Connecticut) All-stars become the first American team to win the Little League World Series since 1983.
- 1990 - Two slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida.
- 1991 - Kansas City Royals' Brett Saberegen no-hits Chicago White Sox 7-0.
- 1995 - Death of Ronnie White at age 57 of leukemia; singer/songwriter ("My Girl", Miracles - "Love Machine", "Shop Around").
- 1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
- 1997 - The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of the peace process.
- 1998 - Scott Ritter resigns from UNSCOM, sharply criticizing the President Bill Clinton administration and the U.N. Security Council for not being vigorous enough about insisting that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction be destroyed. Ritter tells reporters that "Iraq is not disarming," "Iraq retains the capability to launch a chemical strike."
- 1998 - Death of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918).
- 1999 - Michael Johnson captures the 400m world record.
- 2000 - Enix releases the Dragon Quest VII video game for the PlayStation in Japan. First day sales total 1.8 million copies.
- 2002 - The first video streaming coverage of a Major League Baseball game takes place on the internet. Approximately 30,000 fans visit MLB.com to see the New York Yankees defeat the Texas Rangers, 10-3.
- 2003 - ESPN debuts the Playmakers television show.
- 2005 - Jean Michel Jarre's "Space of Freedom" concert is held in Gdansk, Poland, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of Solidarnosc ("Solidarity" trade union).
- 2008 - Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- 2017 - Death of Josef Musil, Czech volleyball player (born 1932).
- 2018 - An Esports tournament is held in Jacksonville, Florida, a qualifying round for EA's Madden 19 Classic. A competitor is eliminated, then pulls out a handgun and starts shooting, killing three, including himself.
- 2020 - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos becomes the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding US$200 billion, according to Forbes.
- 2021 - At least 182 people are killed, including 13 U.S. service members, in a suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
- 2023 - Death of Bob Barker at age 99 at home in Los Angeles, California; radio announcer, TV show host (Truth of Consequences, The Price is Right (1972-2007, over 6500 episodes, 18 Daytime Emmy awards)).
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