Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 26

Chinese invents toilet paper
Roman forces under Julius C‘sar invade Britain
1278: Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
1346: 1st time in battle
1346: Battle at Cr‚cy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for
1541: Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
1545: Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma
1549: Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1629: Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
1634: Battle at N”rdlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat
1634: Sweden & German protestants
1641: West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1648: People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
1652: Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter
1745: England, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty
1791: John Fitch grants 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)
1863: Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
1873: 1st kindergarten public school opens in St Louis
1874: 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
1883: -27] Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1894: 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: Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1909: Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day
1911: F Kaiser discovers asteroid #717 Wisibada
1912: Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
1913: F Kaiser discovers asteroid #759 Vinifera
1914: -9/10] Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914: Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1915: German troops over run 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 Bacons Lightnin, premieres in NYC
1920: 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
1920: Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
1922: Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
1929: 1st US roller coaster built
1930: Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
1933: E Delporte discovers asteroid #1288 Santa
1933: Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1935: CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
1936: A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #2226 Cunitza
1936: Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1398 Donnera
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: E Delporte discovers asteroid #1493 Sigrid
1939: Belgium mobilizes
1939: Kroatia gets autonomous status
1940: P Djurkovic discovers asteroid #1700 Zvezdara
1940: RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
1941: Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1542 Schalen & #1699 Honkasalo
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 to Champs-Elys‚es
1944: US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
1945: Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's
1945: surrender at the end of WW II
1946: George Orwell published Animal Farm
1951: Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1952: Fluoridation of SF water begins
1956: KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1957: USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1962: Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
1964: Italians CP 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 & Marienne Faithful 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
1971: Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1972: Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1972: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973: 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race
1973: David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973: in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
1973: U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1974: Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
1974: Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1976: #2668 Tataria, #3311 & #3762, #3856 Lutskij, #5933 Kemurdzhian,
1976: #5989, #6356, #6574 & #6811
1976: N S Chernykh discovers asteroids #2506 Pirogov, #2520 Novorossijsk,
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
1980: Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
1981: H Debehogne discovers asteroid #5459 Saraburger
1981: Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
1981: Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
1982: NASA launches Telesat-F
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 Calif Angels
1985: French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
1986: H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4697, #5322, #7397, #7744 & #8263
1986: Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
1987: M Kizawa & W Kakei discover asteroid #4094 Aoshima
1987: Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
1989: R H McNaught discovers asteroid #4713 Steel & #5475
1989: Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
1990: 2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
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
1992: S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5358 & #5853
1995: Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs v Glamorgan

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