26th of August

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The August 26 is the 238th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 239th in leap years ); thus there are 127 days until the end of the year.

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events

Politics and world events

1278: Battle of the Marchfeld
1346: Battle of Crécy
1839: La Amistad with the USS Washington off Long Island
1920: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution

business

science and technology

1665: Globular cluster M22
1905: The Urfttalsperre
  • 1905: The Urfttalsperre , at that time the largest dam in Europe, is inaugurated.
  • 1953: The Cinemascope process is presented for the first time in Germany by the US film company 20th Century Fox .
  • 1954: OBI Wester reaches the world speed record of 251.7 km / h with his Sikorsky XH-39 helicopter .
  • 1965: The first flight of a prototype of the Cessna 401/402 takes place.
  • 1978: The NVA officer Sigmund Jähn is the first German to go into space in Soyuz 31 .
1981: Saturn image from Voyager 2
  • 1981: The US space probe Voyager 2 flies past Saturn and provides many photos of the planet, its rings and moons.

Culture

religion

1492: Pope Alexander VI.

Disasters

  • 1787: A major fire destroys the city of Neuruppin .
Lithograph of the Krakatau volcanic eruption
  • 1883: eruption of the Krakatau volcano , which will collapse the following day. The disaster caused a series of gigantic tidal waves ( tsunamis ) on the coasts of Java and Sumatra . Thousands of people drown in the floods.
  • 1922: The Japanese light cruiser Niitaka sank in a storm off the west coast of Kamchatka . The entire crew (approx. 400 men) are killed.
  • 2004: A tank truck loaded with 32,000 liters of fuel falls from the Wiehl valley bridge. The bridge is severely damaged by the heat of the fire that is triggered and has to be temporarily closed completely. With a reported property damage of around 30 million euros, it was the most expensive traffic accident in Germany to date.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 17th century

  • Sibylle of Jülich-Kleve-Berg (* 1557)

  • Antonie of Lorraine (* 1568)

  • Enoch Savior (* 1582)

  • Friedrich V of the Palatinate (* 1596)

17th century

  • Christoph Philipp Richter (* 1602)

  • Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau (* 1666)

  • Robert Walpole (* 1676)

  • Johann Zacharias Richter (* 1696)

18th century

  • Johann Heinrich Lambert (* 1728)

  • Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (* 1743)

  • Caroline of Hessen-Homburg (* 1771)

  • Manuel Oribe (* 1790)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Ludwig Schwanthaler (* 1802)

  • Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (* 1819)

  • James Harlan (* 1820)

  • Marie Simon (* 1824)

  • Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria (* 1826)

  • Amalie Schönchen (* 1836)

  • Josef Bratfisch (* 1847)

  • Charles Richet (* 1850)

1851-1900

  • Lee de Forest (* 1873)

  • Zona Gale (* 1874)

  • Gottlob Honold (* 1876)

  • Erich Ziegel (* 1876)

  • Lina Stern (* 1878)

  • Ruth Roland (* 1892)

  • Earl Long (* 1895)

  • Peggy Guggenheim (* 1898)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Eleanor Dark (born 1901)

  • Maxwell D. Taylor (born 1901)

  • Albert Sabin (* 1906)

  • Mother Teresa (* 1910)

  • Boris Pahor (* 1913)

  • Julio Cortázar (* 1914)

  • Jan Clayton (born 1917)

  • Katherine Johnson (born 1918)

1926-1950

  • Dany Chamoun (born 1934)

  • Geraldine Ferraro (* 1935)

  • Karen Spärck Jones (* 1935)

  • Dagmar Koller (* 1939)

1951-1975

  • Gerd Bonk (* 1951)

  • Dr. Alban (* 1957)

  • Ludger Beerbaum (* 1963)

  • Shirley Manson (born 1966)

  • Sandra Pires (* 1969)

  • Mark Benecke (* 1970)

  • Melissa McCarthy (* 1970)

  • Thalía (* 1971)

1976-2000

  • Nicole Wesner (* 1977)

  • Amanda Schull (* 1978)

  • Macaulay Culkin (* 1980)

  • Cassie (* 1986)

  • Irina-Camelia Begu (* 1990)

  • Dylan O'Brien (born 1991)

  • Keke Palmer (* 1993)

  • Jeon So-yeon (* 1998)

21st century

Died

Before the 18th century

  • Anna of Bohemia († 1265)

  • Ottokar Přemysl († 1278)

  • John of Luxembourg († 1346)

  • Louis I of Flanders († 1346)

  • Ernst of Saxony († 1486)

  • Margareta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud († 1551)

  • Antonio of Crato († 1595)

  • Frans Hals († 1666)

18th century

  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek († 1723)

  • Anne Marie d'Orléans († 1728)

  • Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar († 1728)

  • Giuseppe Balsamos, called Cagliostro († 1795)

19th century

  • Santiago de Liniers († 1810)

  • Theodor Körner († 1813)

  • Johanna Elisabeth Bichier des Ages († 1838)

  • Louis-Philippe I († 1850)

  • Adolf Schlagintweit († 1857)

  • Johann Franz Encke († 1865)

  • Orazio Antinori († 1882)

  • Friedrich Miescher († 1895)

20th century

1901-1950

  • Matthias Erzberger († 1921)

  • Ludwig Thoma († 1921)

  • Adam von Trott zu Solz († 1944)

  • Franz Werfel († 1945)

1951-2000

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams († 1958)

  • Vilhjalmur Stefansson († 1962)

  • Kay Francis († 1968)

  • Charles Lindbergh († 1974)

  • Juliette Béliveau († 1975)

  • Lotte Lehmann († 1976)

  • Charles Boyer († 1978)

  • Rosa Albach-Retty († 1980)

21st century

  • Rainer Barzel († 2006)

  • Ulrich de Maizière († 2006)

  • Neil Simon († 2018)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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