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55 BCAug 26Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
1071Aug 26Turks defeated the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manzikert (Malaz Kard), Eastern Turkey. Romanus was taken prisoner.
1346Aug 26During the Hundred Years War, King Edward III’s 9,000-man English army annihilated a French force of 27,000 under King Philip VI at the Battle of Crecy in Normandy. The battle is regarded as one of the most decisive in history.
1429Aug 26Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.
1648Aug 26There was a people’s uprising, the Fronde, against Anna of Austria, regent for Louis XIV of France, and Cardinal Mazarin (d.1661), the effective ruler.
1723Aug 26Anton van Leeuwenhoek (b.1632), Dutch biologist, inventor (microscope), died in Delft, Netherlands.
1740Aug 26Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, born. He and his brother Jacques-Etienne invented the hot air balloon in 1783.
1789Aug 26The Constituent Assembly in Versailles, France, approved the final version of the Declaration of Human Rights.
1813Aug 26The Battle of Dresden was Napoleon’s last major victory against the allied forces of Austria, Russia and Prussia.
1819Aug 26Albert “Bertie” von Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (d.1861), husband of queen Victoria, was born at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Bavaria.
1843Aug 26Charles Thurber patented a typewriter.
1846Aug 26Felix Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” premiered
1850Aug 26Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913), was born.
1863Aug 26Battle of Rocky Gap, WV, (White Sulphur Springs).
1873Aug 26Lee De Forest (d.1961), inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, was born in Council bluffs, Iowa. He is considered the father of radio.
1884Aug 26Earl Biggers, author (“Charlie Chan” detective series), was born.
1898Aug 26Peggy Guggenheim, art patron and collector, was born.
1901Aug 26Maxwell Taylor, U.S. general and diplomat, born. As commanding general of the 8th Army in 1953, he directed U.N. forces during the latter stages of the Korean War.
1907Aug 26Harry Houdini escaped from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec.
1908Aug 26Tony Pastor (b.1837), singer and actor, died. He is considered to be the father of American vaudeville.
1914Aug 26The French government appointed Gen. Joseph Simon Gallieni (65) as military governor of Paris. He had been called out of retirement at the onset of war to serve in the Ministry of War in Pari
1921Aug 26Ben Bradlee, editor, journalist, executive (Washington Post), was born in Boston.
1929Aug 26The 1st US roller coaster was built.
1930Aug 26Lon Chaney (47), actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), died.
1935Aug 26Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female dem VP candidate (1984), was born.
1937Aug 26President Roosevelt signed the Judicial Procedure Reform Act, a compromise on his judicial reorganization plan.
1942Aug 267,000 Jews were rounded up in Vichy, France.
1943Aug 26The United States recognizes the French Committee of National Liberation.
1944Aug 26US 12th Army Corps crossed the river Seine East of Paris.
1945Aug 26Franz Werfel (54), Czech-German-US poet, writer (Mirror Man), died.
1958Aug 26Alaskans went to the polls to overwhelmingly vote in favor of statehood.
1961Aug 26The official International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto.
1964Aug 26President Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
1968Aug 26The Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago. Thousands of antiwar demonstrators took to Chicago’s streets to protest the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention.
1971Aug 26New Jersey Gov. William T. Cahill announced that the New York Giants football team had agreed to leave Yankee Stadium for a new sports complex to be built in East Rutherford.
1972Aug 26Sir Francis Chichester (b.1901), English adventurer, died. In 1966-67 he sailed around the world alone in his 53-foot yacht, Gypsy Moth IV.
1973Aug 26The Univ. of Texas at Arlington became the 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing.
1978Aug 26Sigmund Jahn became the first German in space when he blasted off aboard Russia’s Soyuz 31.
1981Aug 26Roger Nash Baldwin (b.1884), one of the founders of the ACLU, died.
1982Aug 26The Argentine government lifted a ban on political parties.
1985Aug 26Thirteen-year-old AIDS patient Ryan White began “attending” classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana, via a telephone hook-up at his home. School officials had barred Ryan from attending classes in person.
1987Aug 26The US stock market began a 2 month decline of 41%.
1990Aug 26Fifty-five Americans, who had been evacuated from the US Embassy in Kuwait, left Baghdad by car and headed for the Turkish border.
1991Aug 26In an address to the Supreme Soviet, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised national elections in a last-ditch effort to preserve his government, but leaders of Soviet republics told him the hour of central power had passed.
1992Aug 26A federal judge declared a mistrial in the Iran-Contra cover-up trial of former CIA spy chief Clair George. George was convicted of perjury in a retrial, but was then pardoned by President H.W. Bush.
1993Aug 26Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 14 co-defendants entered innocent pleas in federal court in New York, a day after their indictment on charges of conspiring to wage terrorism against the United States.
1994Aug 26US Congressional leaders and White House officials all but conceded that a health reform bill was dead.
1995Aug 26In his weekly radio address, President Clinton explained his decision to impose a two-year moratorium on mining claims on 4500 acres of federal land near the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, saying the land was “more priceless than gold.”
1996Aug 26Democrats opened their 42nd national convention in Chicago.
1997Aug 26It was announced that researchers at Johns Hopkins had found a gene that causes colon cancer in some people of Jewish ancestry.
1998Aug 26American U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, at the center of several standoffs with Iraq, resigned his U.N. post.
1999Aug 26Attorney General Janet Reno pledged that a new investigation of the 1993 Waco, Texas, siege would “get to the bottom” of how the FBI used potentially flammable tear gas grenades against her wishes and then took six years to admit it.
2000Aug 26The Houston Comets won their fourth straight WNBA championship by defeating the New York Liberty 79-73.
2001Aug 26The Tokyo Kitasuna beat Apopka, Fla., 2-1 to win the Little League championship in South Williamsport, Pa.
2002Aug 26US VP Cheney, speaking at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Tennessee, warned that there is “no doubt” that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is amassing weapons of mass destruction for use against America and its allies.
2003Aug 26In the face of criticism, President Bush defended his handling of the war and reconstruction of Iraq, telling an American Legion conference in St. Louis the fight was essential to the U.S. campaign against terrorism.
2004Aug 26The US supply of vaccine for the impending flu season took a big hit when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory, and would hold up shipment of about 50 million shots.
2005Apr 26Florida’s Gov. Bush signed legislation giving people the right to meet “force with force,” effective Oct 1. Utility crews in South Florida scrambled to restore power to more than 1 million customers blacked out by Hurricane Katrina, which continued to churn in the Gulf of Mexico.
2006Aug 26Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened over the Caribbean as it headed toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, threatening to become the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season.
2007Aug 26In northern California the 17th annual Cotati Accordion Festival ended with some 5,000 people and 30 bands attending the 2-day event. Day tickets rose to $17.50.
2008Aug 26The Pentagon said two men were cleared for release to Algeria from Guantanamo, Cuba, where about 260 detainees remained.
2009Aug 26In southern California the Station Fire began in Los Angeles County and soon grew to become the largest wildfire in county history. It did not get contained until Sep 1.
2010Aug 26Bolivia’s government said it has confiscated 280,000 more acres of allegedly fallow or ill-gotten land. The seizure included 51,000 acres from the ranching company of prominent opposition figure Osvaldo Monasterio.
2011Aug 26Former Delaware pediatrician Earl Bradley (58) was sentenced 14 life sentences without parole for committing horrific acts of sexual abuse against scores of young patients over more than a decade.
2012Aug 26Britain’s Scotland Yard arrested 96 people during the annual Children’s Day of the Notting Hill Carnival, mainly for drug and public order offences as well as robbery and assault.
2013Aug 26In California the Rim Fire expanded to 150,000 acres on the western edge of Yosemite Nat’l. Park. The fire began on Aug 17 and now covered over 250 square miles. Officials said it was 20% contained.
2014Aug 26Officials said the US has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK.
  

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