August 26

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August 26 is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

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Events

1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia.

1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolf I of Germany defeat Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.

1303 – Alauddin Khilji captures Chittorgarh.

1346 – 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 Crécy.

1444 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.

1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.

1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.

1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.

1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.

1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.

1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.

1810 – The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.

1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).

1814 – Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.

1821 – The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is officially opened.

1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.

1914 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.

1914 – In Brazil, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is founded.

1914 – World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fought a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.

1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.

1922 – Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the "Great Offensive" (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.

1940 – Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.

1942 – At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.

1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.

1966 – The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.

1970 – A new feminist movement leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.

1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec

1978 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.

1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, United States, FBI inadvertently detonated the bomb during disarming

1997 – Beni Ali massacre in Algeria where 60 to 100 people were killed.

1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.

2009 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years.

2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.

2015 – Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.

Births

1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)

1676 – Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)

1694 – Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician (d. 1755)

1695 – Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter (d. 1791)

1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777)

1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1790)

1740 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810)

1743 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (d. 1794)

1751 – Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop (d. 1825)

1775 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (d. 1851)

1792 – Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay (d. 1857)

1819 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)

1854 – Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932)

1856 – Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress (d. 1939)

1862 – Herbert Booth, Canadian songwriter and bandleader (d. 1926)

1865 – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946)

1873 – Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961)

1874 – Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1938)

1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)

1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1918)

1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)

1882 – Sam Hardy, English footballer (d. 1966)

1885 – Jules Romains, French author and poet (d. 1972)

1891 – Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright (d. 1960)

1894 – Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer (d. 1989)

1896 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian soldier and politician (d. 1990)

1897 – Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea (d. 1990)

1898 – Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1979)

1900 – Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980)

1901 – Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet (d. 1985)

1901 – Hans Kammler, German SS officer and engineer (d. 1945)

1901 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer and bandleader (d. 1972)

1901 – Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (d. 1987)

1901 – Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 1972)

1903 – Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (d. 1992)

1904 – Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (d. 1986)

1904 – Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991)

1906 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993)

1908 – Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)

1908 – Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)

1909 – Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator (d. 1976)

1909 – Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)

1909 – Gene Moore, American baseball player (d. 1978)

1910 – Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

1911 – Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter (d. 1974)

1914 – Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (d. 1984)

1914 – Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (d. 2008)

1915 – Humphrey Searle, English composer and conductor (d. 1982)

1918 – Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician

1919 – Gerard Campbell, American priest and academic (d. 2012)

1920 – Brant Parker, American illustrator (d. 2007)

1920 – Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand

1921 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)

1921 – Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (d. 2014)

1922 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (d. 2009)

1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (d. 2013)

1924 – Alex Kellner, American baseball player (d. 1996)

1925 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (d. 2005)

1925 – Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, Minister of Justice for France (d. 1999)

1925 – Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2013)

1926 – Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist and educator (d. 1999)

1926 – Robert Vickrey, American painter and author (d. 2011)

1928 – Om Prakash Munjal, Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (d. 2015)

1929 – Reuben Kamanga, Zambian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (d. 1996)

1930 – Joe Solomon, Guyanese cricketer and coach

1931 – Kálmán Markovits, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2009)

1932 – Luis Salvadores Salvi, Chilean basketball player (d. 2014)

1934 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster

1934 – Kevin Ryan, Australian rugby player, coach, lawyer and politician

1935 – Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)

1935 – Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (d. 2007)

1936 – Benedict Anderson, American political scientist and academic (d. 2015)

1937 – Don Bowman, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)

1939 – Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli businessman and politician (d. 2007)

1939 – Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazilian banker and financier

1940 – Michael Cockerell, English journalist

1940 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1941 – Jane Merrow, English actress, producer, and screenwriter

1941 – Barbet Schroeder, French-Swiss director and producer

1942 – Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston, English lawyer and politician

1943 – Dori Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1944 – Alan Parker, English guitarist and songwriter

1944 – Judith Rees, English geographer and academic

1944 – Maureen Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer

1945 – Tom Ridge, American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security

1946 – Zhou Ji, Chinese engineer and politician, 14th Chinese Minister of Education

1946 – Valerie Simpson, American singer-songwriter

1946 – Alison Steadman, English actress

1947 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager (d. 2007)

1949 – Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Azerbaijani cleric

1949 – Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1951 – Gerd Bonk, German weightlifter (d. 2014)

1951 – Edward Witten, American physicist and academic

1952 – Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player

1952 – Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)

1952 – Will Shortz, American journalist and puzzle creator

1953 – Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer

1954 – Howard Clark, English golfer and sportscaster

1954 – Tracy Krohn, American race car driver and businessman

1954 – Hugh Pelham, British academic and educator

1955 – Ian Dejardin, English historian and curator

1955 – Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist and educator

1956 – Sally Beamish, English viola player and composer

1956 – Mark Mangino, American football player and coach

1957 – Nikky Finney, American poet and academic

1958 – Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist

1959 – Oliver Colvile, English lawyer and politician

1959 – Stan Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach

1960 – Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader

1961 – Daniel Lévi, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and pianist

1961 – Jeff Parrett, American baseball player

1963 – David Byas, English cricketer and umpire

1963 – Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist and author

1963 – Patrice Oppliger, American author, critic, and academic

1964 – Allegra Huston, English-American author and screenwriter

1964 – Bobby Jurasin, American-Canadian football player and coach

1964 – Chad Kreuter, American baseball player and manager

1964 – Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer and manager

1964 – Torsten Schmitz, German boxer

1964 – Carsten Wolf, German cyclist

1965 – Marcus du Sautoy, English mathematician and academic

1966 – Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player and coach

1966 – Shirley Manson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress

1967 – Michael Gove, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Education

1968 – Chris Boardman, English cyclist

1970 – Jason Little, Australian rugby player

1970 – Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

1970 – Brett Schultz, South African cricketer

1971 – Thalía, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress

1973 – Richard Evatt, English boxer (d. 2012)

1974 – Kelvin Cato, American basketball player and coach

1975 – Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player and coach

1976 – Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter

1977 – Therese Alshammar, Swedish swimmer

1977 – Liam Botham, English rugby player and cricketer

1977 – Saeko Chiba, Japanese voice actress and singer

1977 – Simone Motta, Italian footballer

1979 – Jamal Lewis, American football player

1979 – Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer

1979 – Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer

1980 – Macaulay Culkin, American actor

1980 – Brendan Harris, American baseball player

1980 – Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player

1980 – Chris Pine, American actor

1981 – Tino Best, Barbadian cricketer

1981 – Sebastian Bönig, German footballer

1981 – Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player

1981 – Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer

1981 – Petey Williams, Canadian wrestler

1982 – Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer

1982 – Jayson Nix, American baseball player

1982 – Noah Welch, American ice hockey player

1983 – Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer

1983 – Félix Porteiro, Spanish race car driver

1985 – Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete

1985 – Brandon McDonald, American football player

1985 – David Price, American baseball player

1986 – Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer

1987 – Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (d. 2014)

1988 – Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player

1988 – Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player

1988 – Lars Stindl, German football player

1989 – James Harden, American basketball player

1993 – Keke Palmer, American singer-songwriter, presenter and television personality

Deaths

787 – Arechis II, duke of Benevento

887 – Kōkō, emperor of Japan (b. 830)

1214 – Michael IV of Constantinople

1278 – Ottokar II of Bohemia (b. 1233)

1346 – Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)

1346 – Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)

1346 – Louis II, Count of Blois

1346 – Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)

1346 – John of Bohemia (b. 1296)

1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)

1462 – Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea

1486 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony (b. 1441)

1572 – Petrus Ramus, French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)

1595 – António, Prior of Crato (b. 1531)

1666 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)

1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)

1714 – Edward Fowler, English bishop and author (b. 1632)

1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)

1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)

1810 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)

1813 – Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)

1850 – Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)

1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)

1878 – Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)

1910 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)

1921 – Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)

1930 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)

1943 – Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)

1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)

1945 – Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)

1946 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)

1956 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)

1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)

1966 – W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)

1968 – Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)

1972 – Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)

1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)

1975 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)

1976 – Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)

1977 – H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)

1978 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)

1978 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916)

1979 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)

1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)

1980 – Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)

1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)

1981 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)

1986 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)

1987 – John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)

1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)

1989 – Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)

1992 – Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)

1993 – Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)

1995 – John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934)

1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

2000 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)

2001 – Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)

2001 – Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)

2003 – Jim Wacker, American football player and coach (b. 1937)

2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1952)

2005 – Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1960)

2005 – Robert Denning, American art collector and interior designer (b. 1927)

2005 – Moondog King, Canadian wrestler and politician (b. 1949)

2006 – Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1924)

2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1926)

2007 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)

2009 – Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (b. 1925)

2010 – Raimon Panikkar, Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918)

2011 – George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929)

2011 – Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)

2011 – John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949)

2012 – Russ Alben, American composer and businessman (b. 1929)

2012 – Reginald Bartholomew, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1936)

2012 – Jacques Bensimon, Canadian director and producer (b. 1943)

2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940)

2013 – Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (b. 1922)

2013 – John J. Gilligan, American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)

2013 – Bill Schmitz, American football player and coach (b. 1954)

2013 – Jack Sinagra, American lawyer and politician (b. 1950)

2013 – Clyde A. Wheeler, American soldier and politician (b. 1921)

2014 – Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (b. 1954)

2014 – Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1950)

2014 – Caroline Kellett, English journalist (b. 1960)

2014 – Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)

2015 – Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (b. 1911)

2015 – Donald Eric Capps, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1939)

2015 – P. J. Kavanagh, English poet and author (b. 1931)

2015 – Stefanos Manikas, Greek politician (b. 1952)

2015 – Francisco San Diego, Filipino bishop (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (Greek Church)

Alexander of Bergamo (Roman Catholic Church)

Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá

David Lewis

Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages

Mariam Baouardy (Melkite Greek Catholic Church)

Melchizedek

Our Lady of Częstochowa

Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus

Zephyrinus

August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

The Sunday nearest to this date is Go Topless Day (International observance)

Herero Day (Namibia)

Heroes' Day (Namibia)

Repentance Day (Papua New Guinea)

Women's Equality Day (United States)

References

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