Notable Historical Events on August 26th
August 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1071 |
Battle of Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey). Fought between Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks. |
1278 |
Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf of Habsburg defeats Ottokar II |
1303 |
Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh. |
1346 |
Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle |
1466 |
A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered. |
1498 |
Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà. |
1541 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda and annexes Hungary |
1545 |
Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese as Duke of Parma |
1549 |
Battle of Dussingdale, near Norwich: John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, defeats rebels and ends "John Kett's Rebellion" |
1629 |
Cambridge Agreement, Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate |
1634 |
Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants |
1641 |
West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola |
1648 |
People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin |
1652 |
Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacked a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. Dutch victory |
1745 |
Britan, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty |
1748 |
The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1778 |
The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia. |
1791 |
John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat |
1794 |
French troops occupy Lock |
1843 |
Charles Thurber patents a typewriter |
1846 |
Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah" premieres |
1846 |
W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF) |
1858 |
First news dispatch by telegraph. |
1863 |
Battle of Rocky Gap, WV (White Sulphur Springs) |
1873 |
First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri |
1874 |
16 blacks lynched in Tennessee |
1894 |
Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms |
1895 |
Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam |
1896 |
Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople |
1903 |
Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game |
1907 |
Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec |
1909 |
Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs |
1909 |
Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day |
1912 |
32nd US Men's Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (3-6 2-6 6-2 6-4 6-2) |
1912 |
Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends |
1913 |
33rd US Men's Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (6-4 5-7 6-3 6-1) |
1914 |
-9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia |
1914 |
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army |
1915 |
German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia |
1916 |
Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0 |
1916 |
Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6 |
1918 |
W Smith & F Bacon's "Lightnin'" premieres in NYC |
1920 |
Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins |
1922 |
Japanese cruiser Niitaka driven onto rocks in storm at Kamchatka, 284 killed |
1924 |
(August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. |
1929 |
First US roller coaster built |
1930 |
Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record |
1933 |
Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km) |
1935 |
CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks |
1937 |
Franco's troops conquer Santander |
1937 |
Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished |
1938 |
British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine |
1938 |
Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL |
1939 |
1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY) |
1939 |
Belgium mobilizes |
1939 |
Croatia gets autonomous status |
1940 |
RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk |
1940 |
Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor. |
1942 |
7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France |
1942 |
Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay |
1942 |
Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow |
1942 |
Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944 |
Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed |
1944 |
De Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees |
1944 |
US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris |
1945 |
Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II |
1947 |
1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat) |
1950 |
39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1) |
1951 |
Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart |
1952 |
Fluoridation of SF water begins |
1955 |
1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup) |
1956 |
KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open |
1956 |
Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC |
1957 |
USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile |
1959 |
British Motor Corporation introduced the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers |
1961 |
Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open |
1962 |
Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0 |
1963 |
W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy |
1964 |
Italian Communist Party selects Luigi Longo as chairman |
1964 |
LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ |
1966 |
Balt Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
1966 |
KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
1967 |
Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland |
1967 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam |
1970 |
Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government (North Ireland parliament) |
1971 |
Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia |
1971 |
NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975 |
1971 |
Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game |
1971 |
Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history |
1972 |
20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR |
1972 |
Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros |
1972 |
NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973 |
David Eisenhower writes his last sports column |
1973 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1973 |
University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing |
1973 |
10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners |
1974 |
Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal |
1974 |
Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 |
1977 |
Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77 |
1978 |
Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I |
1978 |
Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6 |
1979 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
1980 |
Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick |
1980 |
John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. |
1981 |
Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission |
1981 |
Voyager 2 takes photos of Saturn's moon Titan |
1982 |
NASA launches Telesat-F |
1983 |
Floods destroy most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain. |
1984 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
1984 |
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad |
1984 |
Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record) |
1985 |
Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels |
1985 |
French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior |
1986 |
Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38) |
1987 |
Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games |
1988 |
Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. |
1989 |
Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS |
1990 |
2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida |
1990 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic |
1990 |
Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs |
1991 |
Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0 |
1992 |
"Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances |
1995 |
Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs v Glamorgan |
1995 |
Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval |
1996 |
President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy |
1996 |
"7th Heaven", starring Jessica Biel, debuts on The WB |
1997 |
Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed. |
1999 |
Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds. |
2002 |
Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
2003 |
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. |
2008 |
Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
2011 |
The 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA |
2012 |
15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969 |
2012 |
36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an, China |
2012 |
17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization |
2012 |
A Legionella outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104 |
2013 |
25,000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination |
2016 |
Pujols Reaches 100 RBIs for 13th Time, Angels Beat Jays 6-3 |
2016 |
Brazilian Police Recommend Charges Against Ryan Lochte |
2016 |
Judge orders search of new Clinton emails for release by September 13 |
2016 |
Italy's Renzi promises to rebuild earthquake ravaged communities |
2017 |
Trump pardons ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio |
2017 |
China bans new business with North Korea in line with sanctions |
2017 |
Harvey roars toward Texas as Category 4 hurricane |
2017 |
North Korea launches 3 short-range ballistic missiles |
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