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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.

Events

55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain
1071 - The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire 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
1976 - Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France
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

1676 - Robert Walpole, British prime minister in 1721-1742 († 1745)
1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon († 1810)
1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, chemist († 1794)
1873 - Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube († 1961)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, art critic († 1918)
1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector († 1979)
1900 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor († 1980)
1901 - General Maxwell Taylor, soldier († 1987)
1904 - Christopher Isherwood, writer († 1986)
1906 - Albert Sabin, polio researcher († 1993)
1909 - Jim Davis, actor († 1981)
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 († 2003)
1960 - Branford Marsalis, saxophonist, bandleader
1980 - Macaulay Culkin, actor

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