On this day in History – Aug. 28
0475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place.
0489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
0888 – Today is the last day until February 2, 2000 that all of the digits in the date are even.
1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan was born (d. 1068)
1189 – The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal dies in Sintra (b. 1432)
1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 – Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1578 – Portugal: Sobe ao trono o Cardeal D. Henrique . Rei de Portugal (28 de Agosto de 1578 até à data da sua morte, em 31 de Janeiro de 1580).
1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham was born (d. 1628). English statesman.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn was born (d. 1653). Dutch scholar
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1645 – Grotius dies (b. 1583). Dutch philosopher and writer.
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna dies (b. 1583). Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
1676 – Juan Cererols dies. Spanish composer.
1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton dies (b. 1602). English soldier.
1714 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg was born (d. 1774)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt (d. 1832). German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, author of Fausto
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton was born (d. 1821). American-born Catholic saint.
1784 – Junípero Serra dies (b. 1713). Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary.
1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine dies executed (b. 1740). French general.
1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot was born (d. 1877). French mathematician.
1814 – Sheridan le Fanu was born (d. 1873). Irish writer.
1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable dies. Founder of Chicago.
1821 – O general José de San Martín funda a Biblioteca Nacional del Perú doando para a mesma a sua biblioteca particular.
1828 (O. S.) – Leo Tolstoy was born (d. 1910). Russian writer.
1828 – Uruguay es declarado estado independiente mediante la Convención Preliminar de Paz.
1830 – The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1837 – João Nepomuceno de Macedo dies (b. 15 Mai 1793). Portuguese noble: Barão de São Cosme.
1839 – William Smith dies (b. 1769). English geologist.
1845 – Scientific American magazine publishes first issue
1849 – After a siege of over one month, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1849 – Benjamin Godard was born (d. 1895). French composer.
1850 – Richard Wagner‘s opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany.
1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as further afield as Japan.
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
1867 – The United States occupies Midway Island.
1867 – Umberto Giordano was born (d. 1948). Italian compose.
1869 – Augusto Fragoso was born (d. 1945). 16th President of Brazil.
laureate
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1884 – First known photograph of a tornado is made.
1888 – Eduardo Santos Montejo was born. President of Colombia (1938-1942).
1888 – Hermes Fontes [Hermes Floro Bartolomeu Martins de Araújo Fontes] was born in Boquim, Sergipe (d. 25 Dez 1930). Brazilian poet and composer.
1896 – Antonio Rafael Pinto Bandeira dies. Brazilian painter
1897 – Charles Boyer was born (d. 26 Aug 1978). French actor (d. 1978)
1898 – Charlie Grimm was born (d. 1983). Baseball player.
1900 – Henry Sidgwick dies (b. 1838). English philosopher.
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted dies (b. 1822). American landscape architect
1903 – Harley-Davidson Motor Company was officially founded
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim was born (d. 1990). American psychologist
1904 – Secondo Campini was born (d. 1980). Italian jet engine pioneer.
1906 – John Betjeman was born (d. 1984). English poet
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson was born (d. 1996). American ornithologist and illustrator
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans was born (d. 1985). Dutch economist
1911 – Joseph Luns was born (d. 2002). Dutch politician.
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1913 – Robertson Davies was born (d. 1995). Canadian writer.
1913 – Richard Tucker was born (d. 1975). American tenor
1913 – Boris Pahor was born. Slovenian writer
1914 – The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
1916 – Italy declares war on Germany.
1916 – Jack Vance was born. American author
1916 – Hélène Baillargeon was born (d. 1997). Quebec singer, actor and folklorist.
1917 – Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1917 – Jack Kirby was born (d. 1994). American comic book artist
1918 – PFC Spartak Varna founded.
1920 – Frits Bernard was born (d. 2006). Pedophile activist.
1921 – Nancy Kulp was born (d. 1991). American actress.
1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez was born. Spanish plawright, actor and director.
1924 – Janet Frame was born (d. 2004). New Zealand author
1924 – Peggy Ryan was born (d. 2004). American actress.
1925 – Donald O’Connor was born (d. 2003). American singer, dancer, and actor.
1928 – F. William Free was born (d. 2003). American advertising executive.
1929 – Istvan Kertesz was born (d. 1973). Hungarian conductor
1930 – Ben Gazzara was born. American actor
1931 – John Shirley-Quirk was born. English bass-baritone
1931 – Walmor Chagas was born, Brazilian actor
1935 – Gilles Rocheleau was born (d. 1998). French Canadian politician.
1936 – Don Denkinger was born. American baseball umpire
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1938 – Maurizio Costanzo was born. Italian television journalist.
1940 – Roger Pingeon was born in Hauteville. French cyclist
1941 – Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps was born. Belgian aristocrat
1943 – In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1943 – David Soul was born. American actor
1943 – Lou Piniella was born. American baseball manager
1943 – In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria dies (b. 1894)
1944 – Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1944 – Melvin Dummar was born. American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1945 – Roberto J. Noble (1902-1969) funda em Buenos Aires o diário “Clarín”.
1947 – Liza Wang was born. Hong Kong actress.
1948 – Danny Seraphine was born. American musician (Chicago)
1949 – Hugh Cornwell was born. British musician (The Stranglers)
1950 – Nídia de Paula was born. Brazilian actress.
1951 – Wayne Osmond was born. American singer (The Osmonds)
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking was born. German businessman
1952 – Guy Nadon was born. Quebec actor
1952 – Jacques Chagnon was born. Quebec politician
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
1957 – Daniel Stern was born. American actor
1957 – Rick Rossovich was born. American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton was born. American figure skater.
1959 – Bohuslav Martinů dies (b. 1890). Romanian composer.
1960 – Emma Samms was born. English actress
1961 – Kim Appleby was born. British singer.
1962 – Eugene Robinson was born. American musician (Oxbow)
1963 – During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Matin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
1963 – Jennifer Coolidge was born. American actress
1964 – The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1965 – Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in New York for playing an electric guitar.
1965 – Amanda Tapping was born. Canadian actress
1965 – Shania Twain was born. Canadian singer.
1965 – Satoshi Tajiri was born. Pokémon creator.
1965 – Giulio Racah dies (b. 1909). Israeli physicist
1966 – René Higuita was born. Colombian footballer
1966 – Priya Dutt was born. Indian social worker and politician
1969 – Jason Priestley was born. Canadian actor
1969 – Jack Black was born. American actor
1969 – Mary McCartney was born. English photographer
1969 – Pierre Turgeon was born. French Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Sherrié Austin was born. Australian actress/singer
1970 – Rick Recht was born. Jewish singer
1971 – The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1971 – Janet Evans was born. American swimmer
1971 – Raul Marquez was born. Mexican-born American boxer
1971 – Shane Andrews was born. American baseball player
1972 – During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
1973 – Matthew John Armstrong was born. American actor
1974 – Johan Andersson was born. Swedish game programmer
1974 – Carsten Jancker was born. German footballer
1974 – Takahito Eguchi was born. Japanese composer
1975 – Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
1975 – DJ Assault was born. American musician
1975 – Fritz Wotruba dies (b. 1907). Austrian sculptor.
1976 – Anissa Jones dies (b. 1958). American actress.
1978 – Jess Margera was born. American drummer
1978 – Shaniqua was born. American wrestling valet
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
1979 – Robert Hoyzer was born. German football referee
1979 – Shaila Durcal was born. Spanish singer
1979 – David Graham was born. Australian reality show personality
1979 – Kristen Hughes was born. Australian netballer
1979 – Markus Pröll was born. German footballer
1979 – Ruth Riley was born. American basketball player
1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1981 – Martin Erat was born. Czech hockey player.
1981 – Vaggelis Moras was born. Greek footballer.
1981 – Raphael Matos was born. Brazilian racing driver.
1982 – Anderson Silva de França was born. Brazilian footballer.
1982 – LeAnn Rimes was born. American singer.
1982 – Thiago Motta was born. Brazilian footballer.
1983 – Lasith Malinga was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
1983 – Alfonso Herrera was born. Mexican actor and singer in the Latin Pop Group RBD
1985 – Cove Reber was born. American Lead singer for Saosin
1985 – Ralph Woolfolk IV was born. American actor
1986 – Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
1986 – US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1987 – John Huston dies (b. 1906). American film director
1988 – At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait it’s 19th province of Iraq.
1990 – Bojan Krkić was born. Serbian-Spanish footballer
1990 – Willy Vandersteen dies (b. 1913). Belgian cartoonist.
1991 – A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
1991 – Kyle Massey was born. American actor
1993 – A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
1993 – 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
1993 – Edward Palmer Thompson dies (b. 1924). British historian
1993 – Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore
1994 – First Japanese gay pride march.
1994 – Rui Filipe dies. Portuguese football player (FC do Porto)
1995 – A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The NATO action against Bosnian Serbs was a reaction to this incident.
1995 – Michael Ende dies (b. 1929). German writer.
1996 – Britain’s Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.
1998 – Pakistan’s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur’an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill was defeated in the Senate.
1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark was born.
2001 – Juan Muñoz dies (b. 1953). Spanish sculptor.
2002 – Fernando Azevedo dies. Portuguese artist who was President of Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.
2003 – Brian Douglas Wells dies (b. 1956). American criminal (failed)
2005 – George Szekeres dies (b. 1911). Hungarian mathematician.
2005 – Jacques Dufilho dies (b. 1914). French actor.
2006 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born American musician (Terrorizer, Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
Hong Kong: Liberation Day (1945)
Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Philippines: National Heroes Day
On this day in History – Aug. 28
0475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place.
0489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
0888 – Today is the last day until February 2, 2000 that all of the digits in the date are even.
1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan was born (d. 1068)
1189 – The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal dies in Sintra (b. 1432)
1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 – Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1578 – Portugal: Sobe ao trono o Cardeal D. Henrique . Rei de Portugal (28 de Agosto de 1578 até à data da sua morte, em 31 de Janeiro de 1580).
1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham was born (d. 1628). English statesman.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn was born (d. 1653). Dutch scholar
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1645 – Grotius dies (b. 1583). Dutch philosopher and writer.
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna dies (b. 1583). Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
1676 – Juan Cererols dies. Spanish composer.
1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton dies (b. 1602). English soldier.
1714 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg was born (d. 1774)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt (d. 1832). German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, author of Fausto
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton was born (d. 1821). American-born Catholic saint.
1784 – Junípero Serra dies (b. 1713). Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary.
1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine dies executed (b. 1740). French general.
1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot was born (d. 1877). French mathematician.
1814 – Sheridan le Fanu was born (d. 1873). Irish writer.
1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable dies. Founder of Chicago.
1821 – O general José de San Martín funda a Biblioteca Nacional del Perú doando para a mesma a sua biblioteca particular.
1828 (O. S.) – Leo Tolstoy was born (d. 1910). Russian writer.
1828 – Uruguay es declarado estado independiente mediante la Convención Preliminar de Paz.
1830 – The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1837 – João Nepomuceno de Macedo dies (b. 15 Mai 1793). Portuguese noble: Barão de São Cosme.
1839 – William Smith dies (b. 1769). English geologist.
1845 – Scientific American magazine publishes first issue
1849 – After a siege of over one month, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1849 – Benjamin Godard was born (d. 1895). French composer.
1850 – Richard Wagner‘s opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany.
1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as further afield as Japan.
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
1867 – The United States occupies Midway Island.
1867 – Umberto Giordano was born (d. 1948). Italian compose.
1869 – Augusto Fragoso was born (d. 1945). 16th President of Brazil.
laureate
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1884 – First known photograph of a tornado is made.
1888 – Eduardo Santos Montejo was born. President of Colombia (1938-1942).
1888 – Hermes Fontes [Hermes Floro Bartolomeu Martins de Araújo Fontes] was born in Boquim, Sergipe (d. 25 Dez 1930). Brazilian poet and composer.
1896 – Antonio Rafael Pinto Bandeira dies. Brazilian painter
1897 – Charles Boyer was born (d. 26 Aug 1978). French actor (d. 1978)
1898 – Charlie Grimm was born (d. 1983). Baseball player.
1900 – Henry Sidgwick dies (b. 1838). English philosopher.
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted dies (b. 1822). American landscape architect
1903 – Harley-Davidson Motor Company was officially founded
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim was born (d. 1990). American psychologist
1904 – Secondo Campini was born (d. 1980). Italian jet engine pioneer.
1906 – John Betjeman was born (d. 1984). English poet
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson was born (d. 1996). American ornithologist and illustrator
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans was born (d. 1985). Dutch economist
1911 – Joseph Luns was born (d. 2002). Dutch politician.
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1913 – Robertson Davies was born (d. 1995). Canadian writer.
1913 – Richard Tucker was born (d. 1975). American tenor
1913 – Boris Pahor was born. Slovenian writer
1914 – The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
1916 – Italy declares war on Germany.
1916 – Jack Vance was born. American author
1916 – Hélène Baillargeon was born (d. 1997). Quebec singer, actor and folklorist.
1917 – Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1917 – Jack Kirby was born (d. 1994). American comic book artist
1918 – PFC Spartak Varna founded.
1920 – Frits Bernard was born (d. 2006). Pedophile activist.
1921 – Nancy Kulp was born (d. 1991). American actress.
1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez was born. Spanish plawright, actor and director.
1924 – Janet Frame was born (d. 2004). New Zealand author
1924 – Peggy Ryan was born (d. 2004). American actress.
1925 – Donald O’Connor was born (d. 2003). American singer, dancer, and actor.
1928 – F. William Free was born (d. 2003). American advertising executive.
1929 – Istvan Kertesz was born (d. 1973). Hungarian conductor
1930 – Ben Gazzara was born. American actor
1931 – John Shirley-Quirk was born. English bass-baritone
1931 – Walmor Chagas was born, Brazilian actor
1935 – Gilles Rocheleau was born (d. 1998). French Canadian politician.
1936 – Don Denkinger was born. American baseball umpire
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1938 – Maurizio Costanzo was born. Italian television journalist.
1940 – Roger Pingeon was born in Hauteville. French cyclist
1941 – Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps was born. Belgian aristocrat
1943 – In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1943 – David Soul was born. American actor
1943 – Lou Piniella was born. American baseball manager
1943 – In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria dies (b. 1894)
1944 – Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1944 – Melvin Dummar was born. American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1945 – Roberto J. Noble (1902-1969) funda em Buenos Aires o diário “Clarín”.
1947 – Liza Wang was born. Hong Kong actress.
1948 – Danny Seraphine was born. American musician (Chicago)
1949 – Hugh Cornwell was born. British musician (The Stranglers)
1950 – Nídia de Paula was born. Brazilian actress.
1951 – Wayne Osmond was born. American singer (The Osmonds)
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking was born. German businessman
1952 – Guy Nadon was born. Quebec actor
1952 – Jacques Chagnon was born. Quebec politician
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
1957 – Daniel Stern was born. American actor
1957 – Rick Rossovich was born. American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton was born. American figure skater.
1959 – Bohuslav Martinů dies (b. 1890). Romanian composer.
1960 – Emma Samms was born. English actress
1961 – Kim Appleby was born. British singer.
1962 – Eugene Robinson was born. American musician (Oxbow)
1963 – During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Matin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
1963 – Jennifer Coolidge was born. American actress
1964 – The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1965 – Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in New York for playing an electric guitar.
1965 – Amanda Tapping was born. Canadian actress
1965 – Shania Twain was born. Canadian singer.
1965 – Satoshi Tajiri was born. Pokémon creator.
1965 – Giulio Racah dies (b. 1909). Israeli physicist
1966 – René Higuita was born. Colombian footballer
1966 – Priya Dutt was born. Indian social worker and politician
1969 – Jason Priestley was born. Canadian actor
1969 – Jack Black was born. American actor
1969 – Mary McCartney was born. English photographer
1969 – Pierre Turgeon was born. French Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Sherrié Austin was born. Australian actress/singer
1970 – Rick Recht was born. Jewish singer
1971 – The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1971 – Janet Evans was born. American swimmer
1971 – Raul Marquez was born. Mexican-born American boxer
1971 – Shane Andrews was born. American baseball player
1972 – During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
1973 – Matthew John Armstrong was born. American actor
1974 – Johan Andersson was born. Swedish game programmer
1974 – Carsten Jancker was born. German footballer
1974 – Takahito Eguchi was born. Japanese composer
1975 – Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
1975 – DJ Assault was born. American musician
1975 – Fritz Wotruba dies (b. 1907). Austrian sculptor.
1976 – Anissa Jones dies (b. 1958). American actress.
1978 – Jess Margera was born. American drummer
1978 – Shaniqua was born. American wrestling valet
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
1979 – Robert Hoyzer was born. German football referee
1979 – Shaila Durcal was born. Spanish singer
1979 – David Graham was born. Australian reality show personality
1979 – Kristen Hughes was born. Australian netballer
1979 – Markus Pröll was born. German footballer
1979 – Ruth Riley was born. American basketball player
1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1981 – Martin Erat was born. Czech hockey player.
1981 – Vaggelis Moras was born. Greek footballer.
1981 – Raphael Matos was born. Brazilian racing driver.
1982 – Anderson Silva de França was born. Brazilian footballer.
1982 – LeAnn Rimes was born. American singer.
1982 – Thiago Motta was born. Brazilian footballer.
1983 – Lasith Malinga was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
1983 – Alfonso Herrera was born. Mexican actor and singer in the Latin Pop Group RBD
1985 – Cove Reber was born. American Lead singer for Saosin
1985 – Ralph Woolfolk IV was born. American actor
1986 – Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
1986 – US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1987 – John Huston dies (b. 1906). American film director
1988 – At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait it’s 19th province of Iraq.
1990 – Bojan Krkić was born. Serbian-Spanish footballer
1990 – Willy Vandersteen dies (b. 1913). Belgian cartoonist.
1991 – A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
1991 – Kyle Massey was born. American actor
1993 – A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
1993 – 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
1993 – Edward Palmer Thompson dies (b. 1924). British historian
1993 – Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore
1994 – First Japanese gay pride march.
1994 – Rui Filipe dies. Portuguese football player (FC do Porto)
1995 – A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The NATO action against Bosnian Serbs was a reaction to this incident.
1995 – Michael Ende dies (b. 1929). German writer.
1996 – Britain’s Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.
1998 – Pakistan’s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur’an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill was defeated in the Senate.
1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark was born.
2001 – Juan Muñoz dies (b. 1953). Spanish sculptor.
2002 – Fernando Azevedo dies. Portuguese artist who was President of Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.
2003 – Brian Douglas Wells dies (b. 1956). American criminal (failed)
2005 – George Szekeres dies (b. 1911). Hungarian mathematician.
2005 – Jacques Dufilho dies (b. 1914). French actor.
2006 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born American musician (Terrorizer, Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
Hong Kong: Liberation Day (1945)
Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Philippines: National Heroes Day
On this day in History – Aug. 28
- 0388 – Magnus Maximus dies. Roman usurper.
- 0430 – Augustine of Hippo dies (b. 0354). North African saint and theologian / Morte de Santo Agostinho.
- 0475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place.
- 0489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
- 0888 – Today is the last day until February 2, 2000 that all of the digits in the date are even.
- 1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan was born (d. 1068).
- 1189 – The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
- 1341 – King Leo V of Armenia dies (b. 1309).
- 1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal dies in Sintra (b. 1432).
- 1484 – Portugal: O duque de Bragança é degolado na praça de Évora.
- 1498 – Portugal: Morte de D. Beatriz. Esposa de D. Manuel I.
- 1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
- 1542 – Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
- 1551 – Um violento tremor de terra atinge Lisboa.
- 1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
- 1578 – Portugal: Sobe ao trono o Cardeal D. Henrique . Rei de Portugal (28 de Agosto de 1578 até à data da sua morte, em 31 de Janeiro de 1580).
- 1582 (O.S.) – Taichang Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China was born (d. 1620).
- 1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham was born (d. 1628). English statesman.
- 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- 1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn was born (d. 1653). Dutch scholar.
- 1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1640 – King Charles I‘s English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
- 1645 – Grotius dies (b. 1583). Dutch philosopher and writer.
- 1654 – Axel Oxenstierna dies (b. 1583). Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
- 1676 – Juan Cererols dies. Spanish composer.
- 1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton dies (b. 1602). English soldier.
- 1714 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg was born (d. 1774).
- 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt (d. 1832). German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, author of Fausto.
- 1757 – David Hartley dies (b. 1705). English philosopher.
- 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton was born (d. 1821). American-born Catholic saint.
- 1784 – Junípero Serra dies (b. 1713). Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary.
- 1785 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle dies (b. 1714). French sculptor.
- 1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine dies executed (b. 1740). French general.
- 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot was born (d. 1877). French mathematician.
- 1805 – Alexander Carlyle dies (b. 1722). Scottish church leader.
- 1807 – Manuel José Ribeiro was born in Quinta de Poldrães, em S. Miguel das Aves (d. 26 Mar 1893). Portuguese noble: Conde de S. Bento, and benemerit.
- 1810 – Portugal: Devido à explosão do paiol, a fortaleza de Almeida rende-se ao exército comandado pelo marechal Massena, no começo do que será a Terceira Invasão Francesa.
- 1814 – Sheridan le Fanu was born (d. 1873). Irish writer.
- 1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable dies. Founder of Chicago.
- 1820 – Andrew Ellicott dies (b. 1754). American surveyor.
- 1821 – O general José de San Martín funda a Biblioteca Nacional del Perú doando para a mesma a sua biblioteca particular.
- 1821 – Argentina : O Governador de Buenos Aires, general Martín Rodríguez (1771-1845) cria o Archivo General de la Nación.
- 1828 (O. S.) – Leo Tolstoy was born (d. 1910). Russian writer.
- 1828 – Uruguay es declarado estado independiente mediante la Convención Preliminar de Paz.
- 1830 – The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
- 1833 – Teixeira de Melo was born (d. 1907). Brazilian writer.
- 1837 – João Nepomuceno de Macedo dies (b. 15 Mai 1793). Portuguese noble: Barão de São Cosme.
- 1839 – William Smith dies (b. 1769). English geologist.
- 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim was born (d. 1900). Scottish merchant.
- 1845 – Scientific American magazine publishes first issue.
- 1849 – After a siege of over one month, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
- 1849 – Benjamin Godard was born (d. 1895). French composer.
- 1850 – Richard Wagner‘s opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany.
- 1853 – Vladimir Shukhov was born (d. 1939). Russian engineer and inventor.
- 1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as further afield as Japan.
- 1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
- 1867 – The United States occupies Midway Island.
- 1867 – Umberto Giordano was born (d. 1948). Italian compose.
- 1869 – Augusto Fragoso was born (d. 1945). 16th President of Brazil.
- 1878 – George Hoyt Whipple was born (d. 1 Feb 1976). American physician. 1934 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate
- 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
- 1884 – First known photograph of a tornado is made.
- 1888 – Eduardo Santos Montejo was born. President of Colombia (1938-1942).
- 1888 – Hermes Fontes [Hermes Floro Bartolomeu Martins de Araújo Fontes] was born in Boquim, Sergipe (d. 25 Dez 1930). Brazilian poet and composer.
- 1891 – Robert Caldwell dies (b. 1814). British Orientalist.
- 1894 – Karl Böhm was born (d. 1981). Austrian conductor.
- 1894 – Elisha Scott was born (d. 1959). Footballer.
- 1896 – Antonio Rafael Pinto Bandeira dies. Brazilian painter.
- 1897 – Charles Boyer was born (d. 26 Aug 1978). French actor.
- 1898 – Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink “Pepsi-Cola“.
- 1898 – Charlie Grimm was born (d. 1983). Baseball player.
- 1900 – Henry Sidgwick dies (b. 1838). English philosopher.
- 1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted dies (b. 1822). American landscape architect.
- 1903 – Harley-Davidson Motor Company was officially founded.
- 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim was born (d. 1990). American psychologist.
- 1904 – Secondo Campini was born (d. 1980). Italian jet engine pioneer.
- 1905 – Fidel Pintos was born. Argentinian comedian and actor.
- 1906 – John Betjeman was born (d. 1984). English poet.
- 1907 – UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
- 1908 – Roger Tory Peterson was born (d. 1996). American ornithologist and illustrator.
- 1910 – Tjalling Koopmans was born (d. 1985). Dutch economist.
- 1911 – Joseph Luns was born (d. 2002). Dutch politician.
- 1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
- 1913 – Robertson Davies was born (d. 1995). Canadian writer.
- 1913 – Richard Tucker was born (d. 1975). American tenor.
- 1913 – Terence Reese was born (d. 1996). British bridge player.
- 1913 – Boris Pahor was born. Slovenian writer.
- 1914 – The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
- 1915 – Max Robertson was born. British sports commentator.
- 1916 – Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1916 – Jack Vance was born. American author.
- 1916 – Hélène Baillargeon was born (d. 1997). Quebec singer, actor and folklorist.
- 1917 – Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
- 1917 – Jack Kirby was born (d. 1994). American comic book artist.
- 1918 – PFC Spartak Varna founded.
- 1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield was born (d. 2004). English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 1919 – Louis Botha dies (b. 1862). Boer leader.
- 1920 – Frits Bernard was born (d. 2006). Pedophile activist.
- 1921 – Nancy Kulp was born (d. 1991). American actress.
- 1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez was born. Spanish plawright, actor and director.
- 1924 – Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- 1924 – Janet Frame was born (d. 2004). New Zealand author.
- 1924 – Peggy Ryan was born (d. 2004). American actress.
- 1925 – Donald O’Connor was born (d. 2003). American singer, dancer, and actor.
- 1925 – Billy Grammer was born. American country music singer and guitarist.
- 1928 – F. William Free was born (d. 2003). American advertising executive.
- 1929 – Istvan Kertesz was born (d. 1973). Hungarian conductor.
- 1930 – Ben Gazzara was born. American actor.
- 1931 – John Shirley-Quirk was born. English bass-baritone.
- 1931 – Walmor Chagas was born, Brazilian actor.
- 1932 – Raul Cortez was born (d. 2006). Brazilian actor.
- 1932 – Andy Bathgate was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1933 – Helen Dunbar dies (b. 1863). American actress.
- 1935 – Gilles Rocheleau was born (d. 1998). French Canadian politician.
- 1936 – Don Denkinger was born. American baseball umpire.
- 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1938 – Maurizio Costanzo was born. Italian television journalist.
- 1938 – Paul Martin was born. Former Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1940 – Roger Pingeon was born in Hauteville. French cyclist.
- 1940 – Ken Jenkins was born. American actor.
- 1941 – Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps was born. Belgian aristocrat.
- 1942 – Sterling Morrison was born (d. 1995). American guitarist (The Velvet Underground).
- 1943 – In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1943 – David Soul was born. American actor.
- 1943 – Lou Piniella was born. American baseball manager.
- 1943 – In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria dies (b. 1894).
- 1944 – Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- 1944 – Marianne Heemskerk was born. Dutch swimmer.
- 1944 – Melvin Dummar was born. American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate.
- 1945 – Roberto J. Noble (1902-1969) funda em Buenos Aires o diário “Clarín”.
- 1947 – Liza Wang was born. Hong Kong actress.
- 1947 – Shoto Tanemura was born. Japanese martial artist.
- 1947 – Manolete dies (b. 1917). Spanish bullfighter.
- 1948 – Danny Seraphine was born. American musician (Chicago).
- 1949 – Hugh Cornwell was born. British musician (The Stranglers).
- 1950 – Nídia de Paula was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1950 – Nicolas de Tavernost was born. Television and comunication personality (M6).
- 1951 – Keiichi Suzuki was born. Japanese composer.
- 1951 – Wayne Osmond was born. American singer (The Osmonds).
- 1952 – Rita Dove was born. American poet.
- 1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking was born. German businessman.
- 1952 – Guy Nadon was born. Quebec actor.
- 1952 – Jacques Chagnon was born. Quebec politician.
- 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
- 1955 – Emmett Till dies (b. 1941). American civil rights movement icon.
- 1957 – Daniel Stern was born. American actor.
- 1957 – Rick Rossovich was born. American actor.
- 1958 – Scott Hamilton was born. American figure skater.
- 1959 – Bohuslav Martinů dies (b. 1890). Romanian composer.
- 1960 – Emma Samms was born. English actress.
- 1961 – Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, “Please Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes.
- 1961 – Kim Appleby was born. British singer.
- 1962 – Eugene Robinson was born. American musician (Oxbow).
- 1963 – During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Matin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
- 1963 – Jennifer Coolidge was born. American actress.
- 1964 – The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time.
- 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- 1965 – Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in New York for playing an electric guitar.
- 1965 – Amanda Tapping was born. Canadian actress
- 1965 – Shania Twain was born. Canadian singer.
- 1965 – Satoshi Tajiri was born. Pokémon creator.
- 1965 – Giulio Racah dies (b. 1909). Israeli physicist.
- 1966 – René Higuita was born. Colombian footballer.
- 1966 – Priya Dutt was born. Indian social worker and politician.
- 1967 – Frederick Kesner was born. Philippine-born Australian poet.
- 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1968 – Billy Boyd was born. Scottish actor.
- 1969 – Jason Priestley was born. Canadian actor.
- 1969 – Jack Black was born. American actor.
- 1969 – Mary McCartney was born. English photographer.
- 1969 – Pierre Turgeon was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1970 – Sherrié Austin was born. Australian actress/singer.
- 1970 – Rick Recht was born. Jewish singer.
- 1971 – The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
- 1971 – Todd Eldredge was born. American figure skater.
- 1971 – Janet Evans was born. American swimmer.
- 1971 – Raul Marquez was born. Mexican-born American boxer.
- 1971 – Shane Andrews was born. American baseball player.
- 1972 – During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
- 1972 – Jay Witasick was born. American baseball player.
- 1973 – Matthew John Armstrong was born. American actor.
- 1974 – Johan Andersson was born. Swedish game programmer.
- 1974 – Carsten Jancker was born. German footballer.
- 1974 – Takahito Eguchi was born. Japanese composer.
- 1974 – Geir Hallgrímsson became Prime Minister of Iceland.
- 1975 – Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
- 1975 – Gareth Farrelly was born. Irish footballer.
- 1975 – DJ Assault was born. American musician.
- 1975 – Fritz Wotruba dies (b. 1907). Austrian sculptor.
- 1976 – Anissa Jones dies (b. 1958). American actress.
- 1978 – Jess Margera was born. American drummer.
- 1978 – Shaniqua was born. American wrestling valet.
- 1978 – Robert Shaw dies (b. 1927). English actor and writer.
- 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
- 1979 – Robert Hoyzer was born. German football referee.
- 1979 – Shaila Durcal was born. Spanish singer.
- 1979 – David Graham was born. Australian reality show personality.
- 1979 – Kristen Hughes was born. Australian netballer.
- 1979 – Markus Pröll was born. German footballer.
- 1979 – Ruth Riley was born. American basketball player.
- 1980 – Eric Schomburg was born. American author.
- 1980 – T.J. Beam was born. Czech hockey player.
- 1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
- 1981 – Martin Erat was born. Czech hockey player.
- 1981 – Vaggelis Moras was born. Greek footballer.
- 1981 – Raphael Matos was born. Brazilian racing driver.
- 1981 – Béla Guttman dies (b. 1900). Hungarian footballer.
- 1982 – Anderson Silva de França was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1982 – Carlos Eduardo de Souza Floresta (Kahê) was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1982 – LeAnn Rimes was born. American singer.
- 1982 – Thiago Motta was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1983 – Lasith Malinga was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
- 1983 – Alfonso Herrera was born. Mexican actor and singer in the Latin Pop Group RBD.
- 1985 – Cove Reber was born. American Lead singer for Saosin.
- 1985 – Ralph Woolfolk IV was born. American actor.
- 1985 – Ruth Gordon dies (b. 1896). American actress.
- 1986 – Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
- 1986 – US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
- 1986 – Gilad Shalit was born. Israeli military officer.
- 1987 – John Huston dies (b. 1906). American film director.
- 1988 – At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
- 1988 – Jean Marchand dies (b. 1918). French Canadian union leader and politician.
- 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait it’s 19th province of Iraq.
- 1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hit in Plainfield, Illinois and Joliet, Illinois killing 28 people.
- 1990 – Bojan Krkić was born. Serbian-Spanish footballer.
- 1990 – Willy Vandersteen dies (b. 1913). Belgian cartoonist.
- 1990 – Victorio Spinetto dies. Argentinian football coach and national team manager.
- 1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
- 1990 – Willy Vandersteen dies (b. 1913). Belgian cartoonist.
- 1991 – A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
- 1991 – Kyle Massey was born. American actor.
- 1993 – A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
- 1993 – 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
- 1993 – Edward Palmer Thompson dies (b. 1924). British historian.
- 1993 – Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore.
- 1993 – William Stafford dies (b. 1914). American writer.
- 1994 – First Japanese gay pride march.
- 1994 – Rui Filipe dies. Portuguese football player (FC do Porto).
- 1994 – Em San Sebastian de los Reyes, o toureiro Pedrito de Portugal é colhido gravemente por um touro.
- 1995 – A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The NATO action against Bosnian Serbs was a reaction to this incident.
- 1995 – Michael Ende dies (b. 1929). German writer.
- 1995 – Earl W. Bascom dies (b. 19 Jun 1906). American cowboy.
- 1996 – Britain’s Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.
- 1998 – Pakistan’s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur’an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill was defeated in the Senate.
- 1998 – George Hermann Büchi dies (b. 1 Aug 1921). Swiss chemist.
- 1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark was born.
- 2001 – Dutch prime minister Wim Kok announces that he will not be available for another term as Party leader or prime minister after the 2002 elections.
- 2001 – Juan Muñoz dies (b. 1953). Spanish sculptor.
- 2002 – Fernando Azevedo dies. Portuguese artist who was President of Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.
- 2003 – Brian Douglas Wells dies (b. 1956). American criminal (failed).
- 2005 – Esther Szekeres dies (b. 1910). Hungarian mathematician.
- 2005 – George Szekeres dies (b. 1911). Hungarian mathematician.
- 2005 – Jacques Dufilho dies (b. 1914). French actor.
- 2006 – Benoît Sauvageau dies (b. 1963). French Canadian politician.
- 2006 – Jesse Pintado dies (b. 1969). Mexican-born American musician (Terrorizer, Napalm Death).
- 2006 – Melvin Schwartz dies (b. 1932). American physicist, Nobel laureate.
- Hong Kong: Liberation Day (1945).
- Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
- Yugoslavia – Uspenije Presvete Bogorodice – Velika Gospojina (Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (Mother of God).
- Philippines: National Heroes Day.
On this day in History – Aug. 27 Agosto 26, 2007
551 BC Confucius was born (d. 479 BC). Philosopher
479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended.
55 BC – Julius Caesar lands in Britain for the first time.
0410 – Visigoth sack of Rome ends after three days.
0542 – Saint Caesarius of Arles dies.
0827 – Papa Eugénio II dies
1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hojo Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1312 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany dies (b. 1262)
1394 – Chokei dies (b. 1343). Emperor of Japan.
1407 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu was born (d. 1425). Japanese shogun.
1450 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr dies (b. 1395). English politician.
1471 – George, Duke of Saxony was born (d. 1539)
1521 – Josquin Des Prez dies. Flemish composer.
1545 – Piotr Gamrat dies (b. 1487). Polish Catholic archbishop.
1572 – Claude Goudimel dies. French composer.
1574 – Bartolomeo Eustachi dies. Italian anatomist.
1577 – Titian dies. Italian artist
1590 – Pope Sixtus V dies (b. 1521)
1635 – Félix Lope de Vega dies (b. 1562). Spanish poet and playwright.
1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore was born (d. 1715). Governor of the Province of Maryland
1664 – Francisco Zurbarán dies (b. 1598). Spanish painter.
1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was born (d. 1751). English politician.
1677 – Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun was born (d. 1748). Austrian field marshal.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1724 – John Joachim Zubly was born (d. 1781). Swiss-born Continental Congressman.
1730 – Johann Georg Hamann was born (d. 1788). German philosopher.
1758 – Morre Maria Bárbara de Bragança (n. 1711). Infanta de Portugal, rainha consorte de Espanha.
1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born (d. 1831). German philosopher .
1776 – Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington
1798 – United Irishmen and French forces clash with the British army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
1809 – Hannibal Hamlin was born (d. 1891). 15 th Vice President of the United States of America (1861-1865)
1813 – Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden
1827 – Morre em Santiago de Chile, Bernardo de Vera y Pintado. Herói da Independencia e autor do Hino Nacional do Chile
1828 – The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
1859 – Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World’s first successful oil well.
1861 – Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
1865 – James Henry Breasted was born (d. 1935). American Egyptologist
1865 – Charles G. Dawes was born (d. 1951). 30th Vice President of the United States (1925-29). Nobel Prize laureate in 1925.
1870 – Amado Nervo was born (d. 1919). Mexican poet and diplomat.
1871 – Theodore Dreiser was born (d. 1945). American author.
1874 – Carl Bosch was born (d. 1940). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1931.
1875 – Katharine McCormick was born (d. 1967). American women’s rights activist.
1875 – William Chapman Ralston dies (b. 1826). American banker.
1877 – Charles Rolls was born (d. 1910). Co-founder of Rolls-Royce
1880 – Aurora Fúlgida was born in Bucarest. Actress.
1882 – Samuel Goldwy was born. American film magnate (MGM)
1884 – Vincent Auriol was born (d. 1966). French President.
1886 – Rebecca Helferich Clarke was born (d. 1979). English composer and violist.
1886 – Eric Coates was born (d. 1957). English composer.
1890 – Man Ray was born (d. 1976). Photographer and artist.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (9:02 to 9:40) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1899 – C.S. Forester was born (d. 1966). British author.
1900 – British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal
1904 – Norah Lofts was born (d. 1983). British author.
1904 – John Hay Whitney was born (d. 1982). American financier.
1906 – Ed Gein was born (d. 1984). American serial killer.
1907 – Hy Zaret was born (d. 2007). American lyricist and composer.
1908 – Kurt Wegner was born (d. 1985). German artist.
1908 – Don Bradman was born (d. 2001). Australian cricketer.
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson was born (d. 1973). 36th President of the United States
1909 – Lester Young was born (d. 1959). American musician.
1909 – Emil Christian Hansen dies (b. 1842). Danish fermentation physiologist.
1911 – Kay Walsh was born (d. 2005). British actress.
1911 – Frederico Ressano Garcia was born. Portuguese politician and engineer.
1914 – Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk dies (b. 1851). Austrian economist.
1915 – Norman F. Ramsey was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1916 – Martha Raye was born (d. 1994). American actress.
1919 – Louis Botha dies. South African soldier and statesman
1920 – Radio Argentina begins regularly scheduled transmissions from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, considered the world’s first public broadcast station.
1921 – Leo Penn was born (d. 1998). American film director.
1925 – Darry Cowl was born (d. 2006). French actor.
1926 – Kristen Nygaard was born (d. 2002). Norwegian mathematician, computer scientist, and politician
1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
1928 – Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations.
1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi was born. South African politician.
1929 – Ira Levin was born. American author.
1929 – Herman Potočnik Noordung dies (b. 1892). Slovenian rocket scientist.
1930 – Luis M. Sánchez Cerro becomes President of Peru.
1931 – Joe Cunningham was born. American baseball player
1931 – Frank Harris dies (b. 1856). Irish author and editor.
1931 – Francis Marion Smith dies (b. 1846). American borax magnate.
1932 – Carlos Freile Larrea becomes President of Ecuador.
1932 – Antonia Fraser was born. British author
1934 – Sylvia Telles was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 17 Dec 1966). Brazilian singer and composer, (Bossa-Nova)
1935 – Frank Yablans was born. American film producer
1936 – Joel Kovel was born. American politician
1936 – Philippe Labro was born. Journalist
1937 – The automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works is spun off into the Toyota Motor Corporation.
1937 – Alice Coltrane was born (d. 2007). American jazz musician.
1937 – Tommy Sands was born. American actor and singer
1940 – Sonny Sharrock was born (d. 1994). American jazz guitarist
1941 – Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi.
1942 – Brian Peckford was born. Canadian politician.
1943 – Tuesday Weld was born. American actress.
1944 – Georg von Boeselager dies (b. 1915). German nobleman.
1945 – G.W. Bailey was born. American actor.
1947 – Barbara Bach was born. American actress.
1947 – Harry Reems was born. American actor.
1948 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos was born (d. 1990). Greek musician.
1948 – Lorenzo Fernandez dies (b. 4 Nov 1897). Brazilian musician, composer and conductor.
1949 – Leaders of Second East Turkestan Republic die in a plane crash.
1950 – Cesare Pavese dies (b. 09 Sep 1908). Italian writer.
1950 – Charles Fleischer was born. American actor
1951 – Mack Brown was born. University of Texas Head Football Coach
1951 – Buddy Bell was born. American baseball player-manager
1952 – Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
1952 – Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens was born. American actor
1953 – Alex Lifeson was born. Canadian guitarist (Rush)
1953 – Peter Stormare was born. Swedish-born actor
1954 – John Lloyd was born. British former tennis player
1954 – Derek Warwick was born. British race car driver
1955 – Diana Scarwid was born. American actress
1955 – Robert Richardson was born. American cinematographer
1955 – Laura Fygi was born. Dutch singer
1953 – Peter Stormare was born. Swedish-born actor
1955 – Sandra de Sá was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian popular singer and sambista.
1957 – Bernhard Langer was born. German golfer.
1958 – A URSS lança o Sputnik 3, levando a bordo dois cães.
1958 – Tom Lanoye was born. Belgian author
1959 – Gerhard Berger was born in Wörgl. Austrian F-1 race car driver.
1961 – Tom Ford was born. American fashion designer
1961 – Yolanda Adams was born. American gospel singer
1962 – Mariner 2 launched to Venus.
1962 – Vic Mignogna was born. American voice actor
1963 – Downtown Julie Brown was born. Welsh TV personality and former MTV VJ
1963 – Garrett Morgan dies (b. 1877). American inventor.
1963 – W.E.B. DuBois dies (b. 1868). American civil rights activist and scholar.
1964 – Gracie Allen dies. American actress and comedienne.
1965 – Paulo Silas was born. Brazilian football player.
1965 – Le Corbusier dies (b. 1887). Swiss architect.
1967 – Brian Epstein dies (b. 1934). English manager of The Beatles
1968 – Princess Marina dies (b. 1906). Duchess of Kent.
1969 – The first installment of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo (It’s Tough Being a Man) movies is released in Japan. Director and screenplay writer Yoji Yamada went on to make 48 installments of the series, which is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running movie series.
1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress
1969 – Ivy Compton-Burnett dies (b. 1884). English novelist.
1969 – Erika Mann dies (b. 1905). German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann.
1970 – Peter Ebdon was born. English snooker player
1970 – Jim Thome was born. American baseball player
1970 – Jeff Kenna was born. Irish footballer
1971 – Nicarágua flag is adopted
1971 – Marlon Ayoví was born. Ecuadorian footballer
1971 – Julian Cheung was born. Hong Kong actor and singer
1971 – Bennett Cerf dies (b. 1898). American publisher and television personality.
1971 – Margaret Bourke-White dies (b. 1906). American photo-journalist.
1972 – Dalip Singh was born. Indian professional wrestler
1973 – Dietmar Hamann was born. German footballer
1973 – Carlene Begnaud was born. American professional wrestler
1973 – Danny Coyne was born. Welsh footballer
1974 – Jose Vidro was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 – Lupicínio Rodrigues dies (b. 1914). Brazilian popular composer.
1975 – Jonny Moseley was born. American skier.
1975 – Haile Selassie I dies (b. 1892). Emperor of Ethiopia.
1976 – Sarah Chalke was born. Canadian actress
1976 – Steve Taylor was born. British writer
1976 – Milano Collection Akihito Terui was born. Japanese professional wrestler
1976 – Mark Webber was born. Australian race car driver
1976 – Carlos Moya was born. Spanish tennis player .
1976 – Mark Webber was born. Australian race car driver.
1977 – Deco (Anderson Luiz de Sousa) was born. Brazilian-born Portuguese footballer
1979 – An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
1979 – Tian Liang was born. Chinese diver
1979 – Sarah Neufeld was born. Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1980 – Douglas Kenney dies (b. 1947). American humorist.
1981 – Valery Kharlamov dies (b. 1948). Soviet Union ice hockey player.
1983 – Haiti adopts constitution
1983 – Wilson Chen was born. Taiwanese actor
1983 – Keith Bailey was born. American footballer
1984 – David Bentley was born. English footballer
1984 – Sulley Muntari was born. Ghanaian footballer
1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.
1985 – Alexandra Nechita was born. Artist
1986 – Mario was born. American R&B singer
1988 – Alexa Vega was born. American actress.
1988 – William Sargant dies (b. 1907). British psychiatrist.
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash (b. 3 Oct 1954). American guitarist ( Blues and Jazz).
1990 – Afonso Arinos (Afonso Arino de Melo Franco) dies (b. 27 Nov 1905). Brazilian politician, essayst and historian.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1993 – The Florida DOT decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
1994 – Roberto “Polaco” Goyeneche dies. Argentinian singer (tango).
1996 – Dulcina de Morais dies (b. 3 Feb 1908). Brazilian actress.
1996 – Greg Morris dies (b. 1933). American actor.
1997 – Brandon Tartikoff dies (b. 1949). American television producer.
1999 – Michael Johnson bate o record mais antigo do atletismo masculino ao vencer os 400 metros dos Mundiais de Atletismo em Sevilla, com a marca de 43:18 segundos
1999 – Paraguai ratifies Protocol of Kyoto.
1999 – Hélder Câmara dies (b. 1909). Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop.
2000 – Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa dies assassinated (b. 1938). Leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
2001 – Michael Dertouzos dies (b. 1936). Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science.
2002 – Richard Ricci dies (b. 1953). American handyman wrongly suspected of being a kidnapper in the Elizabeth Smart case.
2003 – Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.ar racer.
2003 – Pierre Poujade dies (b. 1920). French politician.
2004 – Willie Crawford dies (b. 1946). Baseball player.
2006 – In Moscow, Brazil won for the 6th time, beating France, The World League in Volleyball.
2006 – Maria Capovilla dies (b. 1889). Oldest woman alive from 2004-2006.
2006 – Jesse Pintado dies (b. 1969). Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death).
RC Saints – Saint Joseph Calasanctius (Pre-1970 Roman Catholic calendar), Saint Monica of Hippo, Rufus and Carpophorus.
Moldova – Independence Day (from the USSR, 1991).
Belgium – Wedding of the Giants.
On this day in History – Aug. 27
551 BC Confucius was born (d. 479 BC). Philosopher
479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended.
55 BC – Julius Caesar lands in Britain for the first time.
0410 – Visigoth sack of Rome ends after three days.
0542 – Saint Caesarius of Arles dies.
0827 – Papa Eugénio II dies
1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hojo Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1312 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany dies (b. 1262)
1394 – Chokei dies (b. 1343). Emperor of Japan.
1407 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu was born (d. 1425). Japanese shogun.
1450 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr dies (b. 1395). English politician.
1471 – George, Duke of Saxony was born (d. 1539)
1521 – Josquin Des Prez dies. Flemish composer.
1545 – Piotr Gamrat dies (b. 1487). Polish Catholic archbishop.
1572 – Claude Goudimel dies. French composer.
1574 – Bartolomeo Eustachi dies. Italian anatomist.
1577 – Titian dies. Italian artist
1590 – Pope Sixtus V dies (b. 1521)
1635 – Félix Lope de Vega dies (b. 1562). Spanish poet and playwright.
1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore was born (d. 1715). Governor of the Province of Maryland
1664 – Francisco Zurbarán dies (b. 1598). Spanish painter.
1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was born (d. 1751). English politician.
1677 – Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun was born (d. 1748). Austrian field marshal.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1724 – John Joachim Zubly was born (d. 1781). Swiss-born Continental Congressman.
1730 – Johann Georg Hamann was born (d. 1788). German philosopher.
1758 – Morre Maria Bárbara de Bragança (n. 1711). Infanta de Portugal, rainha consorte de Espanha.
1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born (d. 1831). German philosopher .
1776 – Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington
1798 – United Irishmen and French forces clash with the British army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
1809 – Hannibal Hamlin was born (d. 1891). 15 th Vice President of the United States of America (1861-1865)
1813 – Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden
1827 – Morre em Santiago de Chile, Bernardo de Vera y Pintado. Herói da Independencia e autor do Hino Nacional do Chile
1828 – The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
1859 – Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World’s first successful oil well.
1861 – Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
1865 – James Henry Breasted was born (d. 1935). American Egyptologist
1865 – Charles G. Dawes was born (d. 1951). 30th Vice President of the United States (1925-29). Nobel Prize laureate in 1925.
1870 – Amado Nervo was born (d. 1919). Mexican poet and diplomat.
1871 – Theodore Dreiser was born (d. 1945). American author.
1874 – Carl Bosch was born (d. 1940). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1931.
1875 – Katharine McCormick was born (d. 1967). American women’s rights activist.
1875 – William Chapman Ralston dies (b. 1826). American banker.
1877 – Charles Rolls was born (d. 1910). Co-founder of Rolls-Royce
1880 – Aurora Fúlgida was born in Bucarest. Actress.
1882 – Samuel Goldwy was born. American film magnate (MGM)
1884 – Vincent Auriol was born (d. 1966). French President.
1886 – Rebecca Helferich Clarke was born (d. 1979). English composer and violist.
1886 – Eric Coates was born (d. 1957). English composer.
1890 – Man Ray was born (d. 1976). Photographer and artist.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (9:02 to 9:40) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1899 – C.S. Forester was born (d. 1966). British author.
1900 – British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal
1904 – Norah Lofts was born (d. 1983). British author.
1904 – John Hay Whitney was born (d. 1982). American financier.
1906 – Ed Gein was born (d. 1984). American serial killer.
1907 – Hy Zaret was born (d. 2007). American lyricist and composer.
1908 – Kurt Wegner was born (d. 1985). German artist.
1908 – Don Bradman was born (d. 2001). Australian cricketer.
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson was born (d. 1973). 36th President of the United States
1909 – Lester Young was born (d. 1959). American musician.
1909 – Emil Christian Hansen dies (b. 1842). Danish fermentation physiologist.
1911 – Kay Walsh was born (d. 2005). British actress.
1911 – Frederico Ressano Garcia was born. Portuguese politician and engineer.
1914 – Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk dies (b. 1851). Austrian economist.
1915 – Norman F. Ramsey was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1916 – Martha Raye was born (d. 1994). American actress.
1919 – Louis Botha dies. South African soldier and statesman
1920 – Radio Argentina begins regularly scheduled transmissions from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, considered the world’s first public broadcast station.
1921 – Leo Penn was born (d. 1998). American film director.
1925 – Darry Cowl was born (d. 2006). French actor.
1926 – Kristen Nygaard was born (d. 2002). Norwegian mathematician, computer scientist, and politician
1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
1928 – Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations.
1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi was born. South African politician.
1929 – Ira Levin was born. American author.
1929 – Herman Potočnik Noordung dies (b. 1892). Slovenian rocket scientist.
1930 – Luis M. Sánchez Cerro becomes President of Peru.
1931 – Joe Cunningham was born. American baseball player
1931 – Frank Harris dies (b. 1856). Irish author and editor.
1931 – Francis Marion Smith dies (b. 1846). American borax magnate.
1932 – Carlos Freile Larrea becomes President of Ecuador.
1932 – Antonia Fraser was born. British author
1934 – Sylvia Telles was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 17 Dec 1966). Brazilian singer and composer, (Bossa-Nova)
1935 – Frank Yablans was born. American film producer
1936 – Joel Kovel was born. American politician
1936 – Philippe Labro was born. Journalist
1937 – The automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works is spun off into the Toyota Motor Corporation.
1937 – Alice Coltrane was born (d. 2007). American jazz musician.
1937 – Tommy Sands was born. American actor and singer
1940 – Sonny Sharrock was born (d. 1994). American jazz guitarist
1941 – Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi.
1942 – Brian Peckford was born. Canadian politician.
1943 – Tuesday Weld was born. American actress.
1944 – Georg von Boeselager dies (b. 1915). German nobleman.
1945 – G.W. Bailey was born. American actor.
1947 – Barbara Bach was born. American actress.
1947 – Harry Reems was born. American actor.
1948 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos was born (d. 1990). Greek musician.
1948 – Lorenzo Fernandez dies (b. 4 Nov 1897). Brazilian musician, composer and conductor.
1949 – Leaders of Second East Turkestan Republic die in a plane crash.
1950 – Cesare Pavese dies (b. 09 Sep 1908). Italian writer.
1950 – Charles Fleischer was born. American actor
1951 – Mack Brown was born. University of Texas Head Football Coach
1951 – Buddy Bell was born. American baseball player-manager
1952 – Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
1952 – Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens was born. American actor
1953 – Alex Lifeson was born. Canadian guitarist (Rush)
1953 – Peter Stormare was born. Swedish-born actor
1954 – John Lloyd was born. British former tennis player
1954 – Derek Warwick was born. British race car driver
1955 – Diana Scarwid was born. American actress
1955 – Robert Richardson was born. American cinematographer
1955 – Laura Fygi was born. Dutch singer
1953 – Peter Stormare was born. Swedish-born actor
1955 – Sandra de Sá was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian popular singer and sambista.
1957 – Bernhard Langer was born. German golfer.
1958 – A URSS lança o Sputnik 3, levando a bordo dois cães.
1958 – Tom Lanoye was born. Belgian author
1959 – Gerhard Berger was born in Wörgl. Austrian F-1 race car driver.
1961 – Tom Ford was born. American fashion designer
1961 – Yolanda Adams was born. American gospel singer
1962 – Mariner 2 launched to Venus.
1962 – Vic Mignogna was born. American voice actor
1963 – Downtown Julie Brown was born. Welsh TV personality and former MTV VJ
1963 – Garrett Morgan dies (b. 1877). American inventor.
1963 – W.E.B. DuBois dies (b. 1868). American civil rights activist and scholar.
1964 – Gracie Allen dies. American actress and comedienne.
1965 – Paulo Silas was born. Brazilian football player.
1965 – Le Corbusier dies (b. 1887). Swiss architect.
1967 – Brian Epstein dies (b. 1934). English manager of The Beatles
1968 – Princess Marina dies (b. 1906). Duchess of Kent.
1969 – The first installment of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo (It’s Tough Being a Man) movies is released in Japan. Director and screenplay writer Yoji Yamada went on to make 48 installments of the series, which is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running movie series.
1969 – Chandra Wilson was born. American actress.
1969 – Ivy Compton-Burnett dies (b. 1884). English novelist.
1969 – Erika Mann dies (b. 1905). German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann.
1969 – Gilberto Amado dies (b. 7 May 1887). Brazilian journalist, politician and poet.
1970 – Peter Ebdon was born. English snooker player.
1970 – Jim Thome was born. American baseball player
1970 – Jeff Kenna was born. Irish footballer
1971 – Nicarágua flag is adopted
1971 – Marlon Ayoví was born. Ecuadorian footballer
1971 – Julian Cheung was born. Hong Kong actor and singer
1971 – Bennett Cerf dies (b. 1898). American publisher and television personality.
1971 – Margaret Bourke-White dies (b. 1906). American photo-journalist.
1972 – Dalip Singh was born. Indian professional wrestler
1973 – Dietmar Hamann was born. German footballer
1973 – Carlene Begnaud was born. American professional wrestler
1973 – Danny Coyne was born. Welsh footballer
1974 – Jose Vidro was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 – Lupicínio Rodrigues dies (b. 1914). Brazilian popular composer.
1975 – Jonny Moseley was born. American skier.
1975 – Haile Selassie I dies (b. 1892). Emperor of Ethiopia.
1976 – Sarah Chalke was born. Canadian actress
1976 – Steve Taylor was born. British writer
1976 – Milano Collection Akihito Terui was born. Japanese professional wrestler
1976 – Mark Webber was born. Australian race car driver
1976 – Carlos Moya was born. Spanish tennis player .
1976 – Mark Webber was born. Australian race car driver.
1977 – Deco (Anderson Luiz de Sousa) was born. Brazilian-born Portuguese footballer
1979 – An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
1979 – Tian Liang was born. Chinese diver
1979 – Sarah Neufeld was born. Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1980 – Douglas Kenney dies (b. 1947). American humorist.
1981 – Valery Kharlamov dies (b. 1948). Soviet Union ice hockey player.
1983 – Haiti adopts constitution
1983 – Wilson Chen was born. Taiwanese actor
1983 – Keith Bailey was born. American footballer
1984 – David Bentley was born. English footballer
1984 – Sulley Muntari was born. Ghanaian footballer
1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.
1985 – Alexandra Nechita was born. Artist
1986 – Mario was born. American R&B singer
1988 – Alexa Vega was born. American actress.
1988 – William Sargant dies (b. 1907). British psychiatrist.
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash (b. 3 Oct 1954). American guitarist ( Blues and Jazz).
1990 – Afonso Arinos (Afonso Arino de Melo Franco) dies (b. 27 Nov 1905). Brazilian politician, essayst and historian.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1993 – The Florida DOT decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
1994 – Roberto “Polaco” Goyeneche dies. Argentinian singer (tango).
1996 – Dulcina de Morais dies (b. 3 Feb 1908). Brazilian actress.
1996 – Greg Morris dies (b. 1933). American actor.
1997 – Brandon Tartikoff dies (b. 1949). American television producer.
1999 – Michael Johnson bate o record mais antigo do atletismo masculino ao vencer os 400 metros dos Mundiais de Atletismo em Sevilla, com a marca de 43:18 segundos
1999 – Paraguai ratifies Protocol of Kyoto.
1999 – Hélder Câmara dies (b. 1909). Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop.
2000 – Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa dies assassinated (b. 1938). Leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
2001 – Michael Dertouzos dies (b. 1936). Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science.
2002 – Richard Ricci dies (b. 1953). American handyman wrongly suspected of being a kidnapper in the Elizabeth Smart case.
2003 – Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.ar racer.
2003 – Pierre Poujade dies (b. 1920). French politician.
2004 – Willie Crawford dies (b. 1946). Baseball player.
2006 – In Moscow, Brazil won for the 6th time, beating France, The World League in Volleyball.
2006 – Maria Capovilla dies (b. 1889). Oldest woman alive from 2004-2006.
2006 – Jesse Pintado dies (b. 1969). Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death).
RC Saints – Saint Joseph Calasanctius (Pre-1970 Roman Catholic calendar), Saint Monica of Hippo, Rufus and Carpophorus.
Moldova – Independence Day (from the USSR, 1991).
Belgium – Wedding of the Giants.
On this day in History – Aug 26
0055 BC- Julius Caesar invades Britain
1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohmia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
1278 – Premysl Ottokar II dies. King of Bohemia
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor.
1346 – Hundred Years’ War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the Frenc combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy: Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297), Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304), John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296), Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320).
1349 – Thomas Bradwardine dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1429 – Joan of Arc enters Paris.
1466 – A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples was born (d. 1496).
1492 – Alexander VI is crowned Pope in Basilica of St. Peter. 215th Pope.
1498 – Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1540 – King Magnus of Livonia was born (d. 1583).
1550 – Fundação do Convento de Santo Domingo (Colômbia)
1551 – Margareta Leijonhufvud dies (b. 1516). Queen of Sweden.
1572 – Petrus Ramus dies (b. 1515). French philosopher.
1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato dies (b. 1531). Claimant to the throne of Portugal / Morre, em França, D. António, O Prior do Crato (n. 1531). Rei de Portugal (19 Jun 1580 – 25 Ago 1581 data da derrota de Alcântara).
1666 – Frans Hals dies. Dutch painter
1676 – Robert Walpole was born (d. 1745). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1694 – Elisha Williams was born (d. 1755). American rector of Yale College.
1714 – Edward Fowler dies (b. 1632). English Bishop of Gloucester.
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek dies (b. 1632). Dutch scientist
1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert was born (d. 1777). German scientist.
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle was born (d. 1790). French chemist.
1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
1743 – Antoine Lavoisier was born (d. 1794). French chemist.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1775 – William Joseph Behr was born (d. 1851). German writer.
1778 – The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia.
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville dies (b. 1716). British soldier and politician.
1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
1789 – Abbas Mirza was born (d. 1833). Prince of Persia.
1792 – Manuel Oribe was born (d. 1857). Uruguayan political figure
1818 – The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia.
1839 – The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1845 – Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols was born (d. 1888). Widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper
1847 – Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1850 – Charles Robert Richet was born (d. 1935). French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1850 – Louis-Philippe of France dies (b. 1773)
1858 – First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1862 – Herbert Booth was born (d. 1926). The third son of William and Catherine Booth
1865 – Johann Franz Encke dies (b. 1791). German astronomer.
1870 – Manuel Jesús Ortiz was born. Chilean educator and writer.
1873 – Lee DeForest was born (d. 1961). American inventor.
1874 – Zona Gale was borm (d. 1938). American novelist.
1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born (d. 1940). Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada
1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire was born (d. 1918). French poet and art critic.
1882 – James Franck was born in Hamburg (d. 1964). German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1925.
1883 – Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
1885 – Jules Romain (Louis Farigoule) was born in Saint Julien Chapteuil, Cevenas (d. 14 Aug 1972). French novelist, dramatist and poet.
1894 – Sparky Adams was born (d. 1989). Baseball player.
1896 – “Cry of Balntawak” (” Grito de Balintawak”): Rebenta a insurreição armada nas Filipinas contra o domínio espanhol.
1896 – Ivan Mihailov was born (d. 1990). Bulgarian revolutionary
1897 – Yoon Boseon was born (d. 1990). President of South Korea.
1898 – Peggy Guggenheim was born (d. 1979). American art collector.
1899 – Rufino Tamayo was born (d. 1991). Mexican painter.
1900 – Hellmuth Walter was born (d. 1980). German engineer and inventor.
1901 – Maxwell Taylor was born (d. 1987). American general.
1901 – Chen Yi was born (d. 1972). Chinese communist military commander and politician.
1904 – Christopher Isherwood was born (d. 1986). Anglo-American writer.
1906 – Albert Sabin was born in Byalistok, Polonia (d. 3 Mar 1993). American microbiologist; developed oral polio vaccine.
1908 – Aubrey Schenck was born (d. 1999). Film producer.
1908 – Simão Mathias was born. Brazilian chemist.
1908 – Tony Pastor dies (b. 1837). American vaudeville performer.
1909 – Jim Davis was born (d. 1981). American actor.
1909 – Gene Moore was born (d. 1978). Baseball player.
1910 – Mother Teresa was born (d. 1997). Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.
1910 – William James dies (b. 1842). American psychologist and philosopher.
1914 – Julio Cortázar was born (d. 1984). Argentine writer (“Rayuela”) .
1914 – Societá Sportiva Palestra Itália, later Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, is founded in São Paulo, Brazil.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
1914 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1915 – John Bunny dies (b. 1863). American comedian
1920 – 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920 – Brant Parker was born (d. 2007). American cartoonist.
1921 – Benjamin Bradlee was born. American journalist
1922 – Irving R. Levine was born. American journalist
1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch was born. German conductor and pianist
1924 – Alex Kellner was born (d. 1996). Baseball player.
1925 – Jack Hirshleifer was born (d. 2005). American economist.
1925 – Alain Peyrefitte was born (d. 1999). French politician and writer.
1928 – May Donoghue drinks a bottle of ginger beer at a cafe in Paisley, Scotland and finds the remains of a snail in the bottle. She launches a civil action against the drink manufacturer which becomes one of the famous cases in English Common Law; that of Donoghue v. Stevenson.
1928 – Peter Appleyard was born. Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 – Naïm Kattan was born. Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 – Lon Chaney, Sr. dies (b. 1883). American actor.
1931 – Portugal: “Reviralhismo” .Tentativa de golpe de estado contra a ditadura : Um grupo de oficiais procura sublevar o Quartel de Metralhadoras 1 em Lisboa, sem sucesso.
1934 – Tom Heinsohn was born. American basketball player and commentator
1935 – Geraldine Ferraro was born. U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – First world TV transmission, produced by The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
1936 – Yvette Vickers was born. American actress
1939 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 – Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor.
1940 – Don LaFontaine was born. American voice actor
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi was born. Japanese actress
1941 – Chris Curtis was born (d. 2005). English singer and drummer (The searchers)
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot.
1942 – Dennis Turner was born. British politician.
1942 – Vic Dana was born. American singer
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1944 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester was born.
1944 – Maureen Tucker was born. American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz dies executed. German anti-Nazi diplomat.
1945 – Tom Ridge was born. First United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1945 – Franz Werfel dies (b. 1890). Austrian writer.
1946 – Mark Snow was born. American composer
1946 – Zhou Ji was born. Education Minister of the People’s Republic of China
1946 – Chantal Renaud was born. Quebec singer and actress
1946 – Valerie Simpson was born. American singer.
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson dies (b. 1887). American actress and screenwriter.
1950 – Jerome “Pop” Pentsky was born. Co-founder and president of Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
1952 – Bryon Baltimore was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1952 – Will Shortz was born. New York Times crossword editor
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1953 – Pat Sharkey was born. Irish footballer
1954 – Efren Reyes was born. World Pool Player
1957 – The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a “super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket … a few days ago,” according to the Soviet news agency, TASS.
1957 – É proclamada a independencia da Namíbia
1957 – Dr. Alban was born. Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 – Rick Hansen was born. Canadian paraplegic athlete
1957 – Cláudia Telles was born. Brazilian singer.
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams dies (b. 1872). English composer
1960 – Branford Marsalis was born. American saxophonist and bandleader
1960 – Nancy Martinez was born. Canadian-born singer
1961 – Jeff Parrett was born. American baseball player
1962 – Bob Mionske was born. American cyclist and attorney
1965 – Chris Burke was born. American actor
1965 – Bobby Duncum, Jr. was born (d. 2000). Wrestler.
1966 – Jacques Brinkman was born. Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Shirley Manson was born. Scottish singer
1967 – Kelly Madison was born. Porn star
1968 – The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1968 – The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” is released (in a shortened version) as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label, to spend nine weeks as number one, a record for any Beatles single.
1968 – Christopher Boardman was born. English cyclist.
1968 – Kay Francis dies (b. 1899). American actress.
1969 – Canada decrimilized sodomy by the Prime Minister, by saying and quoting: “the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation”
1970 – The third annual Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last UK performance from Jimi Hendrix, opens in Great Britain.
1970 – Melissa McCarthy was born. Actress (”Gilmore Girls”)
1970 – Olimpiada Ivanova was born. Russian athlete
1971 – Thalía was born. Mexican singer
1972 – Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
1974 – Charles Lindbergh dies (b. 1902). American aviator, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic.
1976 – Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
1976 – Zemfira was born. Russian singer
1976 – Lotte Lehmann dies (b. 1888). German soprano.
1977 – Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1977 – Saeko Chiba was born. Japanese seiyuu
1977 – Morris Peterson was born. American basketball player
1978 – Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pontiff took the name Pope John Paul I.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1978 – Charles Boyer dies: suicide (b. 28 Aug 1899). French actor.
1978 – José Manuel Moreno dies (b. 1916). Argentine footballer.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player
1979 – Cristian Mora was born. Ecuadorian footballer
1979 – Rubén Pazos was born. Spanish footballer
1979 – Mika Waltari dies (b. 1908). Finnish author.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1980 – Macaulay Culkin was born. American actor (Home Alone, My Girl)
1980 – Chris Pine was born. American actor
1980 – Brendan Harris was born. American baseball player
1980 – Tex Avery dies (b. 1908). American cartoonist.
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty dies (b. 1874). German actress.
1981 – Jesse Martin was born. Australian yachtsman
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin dies (b. 1884). American founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
1981 – Lee Elhardt Hays dies (b. 1914). American folksinger.
1982 – Petey Williams was born. Canadian professional wrestler
1983 – Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1983 – Félix Porteiro was born. Spanish racing driver
1986 – Cassie Ventura was born. American singer
1986 – Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
1986 – Em Estugarda, a atleta portuguesa Rosa Mota ganha a medalha de ouro na maratona dos Campeonatos Europeus de Atletismo.
1986 – Ted Knight dies (b. 1923). American actor.
1987 – President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1987 – Georg Wittig dies (b. 1897). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1988 – Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1988 – Danielle Savre was born. American actress
1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este was born.
1988 – Carlos Paião dies (b. 1957). Portuguese singer.
1989 – Irving Stone dies (b. 1903). American author
1990 – Mário Pinto de Andrade dies. Angolan writer.
1990 – Minoru Honda dies (b. 1913). Japanese astronomer.
1992 – Arthur Leigh Allen dies (b. 1933). Suspected Zodiac serial killer.1992 – Bob de Moor dies (b. 1925). Belgian comics artist.
1993 – Keke Palmer was born. American actress
1994 – Portugal: No Casino do Estoril, Jackpot nas slot machines dá 155 700 contos a um jogador de 91 anos.
1994 – Jesus Otero Oreña dies (b. 1908). Spanish sculptor.
1995 – The International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of Rugby Union, thus bringing the game’s amateur age to an end.
1995 – Ronald White dies (b. 1939). American singer and songwriter (The Miracles).
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1998 – Frederick Reines dies (b. 1918). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1999 – Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2000 – Akbar Adibi dies (b. 1939). Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran.
2001 – Louis Muhlstock dies (b. 1904). Canadian painter.
2002 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2002 – Chile ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 – A Venezuela anuncia adesão ao Mercosul
2003 – Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2003 – Jim Wacker dies (b. 1937). American football coach
2004 – Os jogadores do FC Porto arrebatam a maioria dos prémios da Uefa para a época 2003/2004. Vítor Baía é considerado o melhor guarda-redes, Ricardo Carvalho o melhor defesa e Deco o jogador mais valioso (MVP): José Mourinho é eleito o melhor treinador.
2004 – Laura Branigan dies (b. 1957). American singer.
2005 – Denis D’Amour dies (b. 1960). Canadian guitarist (Voivod)
2005 – Robert Denning dies (b. 1927). American interior designer.
2006 – Rainer Barzel dies (b. 1924). President of the German Bundestag.
2006 – Clyde Walcott dies (b. 1926). Barbadian West Indies cricketer.
2007 – Alberto de Lacerda(b. 20 Sep 1928). Portuguese poet.
St Zephyrinus Day
Namibia – Namibia Day or Heroes’ Day.
Philippines – National Heroes’ Day.
Zanzibar – Sultan’s Birthday.
United States – Women’s Equality Day
On this day in History – Aug 26
0055 BC- Julius Caesar invades Britain
1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohmia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
1278 – Premysl Ottokar II dies. King of Bohemia
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor.
1346 – Hundred Years’ War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the Frenc combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy: Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297), Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304), John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296), Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320).
1349 – Thomas Bradwardine dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1429 – Joan of Arc enters Paris.
1466 – A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples was born (d. 1496).
1492 – Alexander VI is crowned Pope in Basilica of St. Peter. 215th Pope.
1498 – Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1540 – King Magnus of Livonia was born (d. 1583).
1550 – Fundação do Convento de Santo Domingo (Colômbia)
1551 – Margareta Leijonhufvud dies (b. 1516). Queen of Sweden.
1572 – Petrus Ramus dies (b. 1515). French philosopher.
1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato dies (b. 1531). Claimant to the throne of Portugal / Morre, em França, D. António, O Prior do Crato (n. 1531). Rei de Portugal (19 Jun 1580 – 25 Ago 1581 data da derrota de Alcântara).
1666 – Frans Hals dies. Dutch painter
1676 – Robert Walpole was born (d. 1745). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1694 – Elisha Williams was born (d. 1755). American rector of Yale College.
1714 – Edward Fowler dies (b. 1632). English Bishop of Gloucester.
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek dies (b. 1632). Dutch scientist
1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert was born (d. 1777). German scientist.
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle was born (d. 1790). French chemist.
1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
1743 – Antoine Lavoisier was born (d. 1794). French chemist.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1775 – William Joseph Behr was born (d. 1851). German writer.
1778 – The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia.
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville dies (b. 1716). British soldier and politician.
1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
1789 – Abbas Mirza was born (d. 1833). Prince of Persia.
1792 – Manuel Oribe was born (d. 1857). Uruguayan political figure
1818 – The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia.
1839 – The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1845 – Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols was born (d. 1888). Widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper
1847 – Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1850 – Charles Robert Richet was born (d. 1935). French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1850 – Louis-Philippe of France dies (b. 1773)
1858 – First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1862 – Herbert Booth was born (d. 1926). The third son of William and Catherine Booth
1865 – Johann Franz Encke dies (b. 1791). German astronomer.
1870 – Manuel Jesús Ortiz was born. Chilean educator and writer.
1873 – Lee DeForest was born (d. 1961). American inventor.
1874 – Zona Gale was borm (d. 1938). American novelist.
1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born (d. 1940). Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada
1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire was born (d. 1918). French poet and art critic.
1882 – James Franck was born in Hamburg (d. 1964). German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1925.
1883 – Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
1885 – Jules Romain (Louis Farigoule) was born in Saint Julien Chapteuil, Cevenas (d. 14 Aug 1972). French novelist, dramatist and poet.
1894 – Sparky Adams was born (d. 1989). Baseball player.
1896 – “Cry of Balntawak” (” Grito de Balintawak”): Rebenta a insurreição armada nas Filipinas contra o domínio espanhol.
1896 – Ivan Mihailov was born (d. 1990). Bulgarian revolutionary
1897 – Yoon Boseon was born (d. 1990). President of South Korea.
1898 – Peggy Guggenheim was born (d. 1979). American art collector.
1899 – Rufino Tamayo was born (d. 1991). Mexican painter.
1900 – Hellmuth Walter was born (d. 1980). German engineer and inventor.
1901 – Maxwell Taylor was born (d. 1987). American general.
1901 – Chen Yi was born (d. 1972). Chinese communist military commander and politician.
1904 – Christopher Isherwood was born (d. 1986). Anglo-American writer.
1906 – Albert Sabin was born in Byalistok, Polonia (d. 3 Mar 1993). American microbiologist; developed oral polio vaccine.
1908 – Aubrey Schenck was born (d. 1999). Film producer.
1908 – Simão Mathias was born. Brazilian chemist.
1908 – Tony Pastor dies (b. 1837). American vaudeville performer.
1909 – Jim Davis was born (d. 1981). American actor.
1909 – Gene Moore was born (d. 1978). Baseball player.
1910 – Mother Teresa was born (d. 1997). Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.
1910 – William James dies (b. 1842). American psychologist and philosopher.
1914 – Julio Cortázar was born (d. 1984). Argentine writer (“Rayuela”) .
1914 – Societá Sportiva Palestra Itália, later Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, is founded in São Paulo, Brazil.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
1914 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1915 – John Bunny dies (b. 1863). American comedian
1920 – 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920 – Brant Parker was born (d. 2007). American cartoonist.
1921 – Benjamin Bradlee was born. American journalist
1922 – Irving R. Levine was born. American journalist
1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch was born. German conductor and pianist
1924 – Alex Kellner was born (d. 1996). Baseball player.
1925 – Jack Hirshleifer was born (d. 2005). American economist.
1925 – Alain Peyrefitte was born (d. 1999). French politician and writer.
1928 – May Donoghue drinks a bottle of ginger beer at a cafe in Paisley, Scotland and finds the remains of a snail in the bottle. She launches a civil action against the drink manufacturer which becomes one of the famous cases in English Common Law; that of Donoghue v. Stevenson.
1928 – Peter Appleyard was born. Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 – Naïm Kattan was born. Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 – Lon Chaney, Sr. dies (b. 1883). American actor.
1931 – Portugal: “Reviralhismo” .Tentativa de golpe de estado contra a ditadura : Um grupo de oficiais procura sublevar o Quartel de Metralhadoras 1 em Lisboa, sem sucesso.
1934 – Tom Heinsohn was born. American basketball player and commentator
1935 – Geraldine Ferraro was born. U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – First world TV transmission, produced by The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
1936 – Yvette Vickers was born. American actress
1939 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 – Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor.
1940 – Don LaFontaine was born. American voice actor
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi was born. Japanese actress
1941 – Chris Curtis was born (d. 2005). English singer and drummer (The searchers)
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot.
1942 – Dennis Turner was born. British politician.
1942 – Vic Dana was born. American singer
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1944 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester was born.
1944 – Maureen Tucker was born. American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz dies executed. German anti-Nazi diplomat.
1945 – Tom Ridge was born. First United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1945 – Franz Werfel dies (b. 1890). Austrian writer.
1946 – Mark Snow was born. American composer
1946 – Zhou Ji was born. Education Minister of the People’s Republic of China
1946 – Chantal Renaud was born. Quebec singer and actress
1946 – Valerie Simpson was born. American singer.
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson dies (b. 1887). American actress and screenwriter.
1950 – Jerome “Pop” Pentsky was born. Co-founder and president of Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
1952 – Bryon Baltimore was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1952 – Will Shortz was born. New York Times crossword editor
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1953 – Pat Sharkey was born. Irish footballer
1954 – Efren Reyes was born. World Pool Player
1957 – The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a “super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket … a few days ago,” according to the Soviet news agency, TASS.
1957 – É proclamada a independencia da Namíbia
1957 – Dr. Alban was born. Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 – Rick Hansen was born. Canadian paraplegic athlete
1957 – Cláudia Telles was born. Brazilian singer.
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams dies (b. 1872). English composer
1960 – Branford Marsalis was born. American saxophonist and bandleader
1960 – Nancy Martinez was born. Canadian-born singer
1961 – Jeff Parrett was born. American baseball player
1962 – Bob Mionske was born. American cyclist and attorney
1965 – Chris Burke was born. American actor
1965 – Bobby Duncum, Jr. was born (d. 2000). Wrestler.
1966 – Jacques Brinkman was born. Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Shirley Manson was born. Scottish singer
1967 – Kelly Madison was born. Porn star
1968 – The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1968 – The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” is released (in a shortened version) as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label, to spend nine weeks as number one, a record for any Beatles single.
1968 – Christopher Boardman was born. English cyclist.
1968 – Kay Francis dies (b. 1899). American actress.
1969 – Canada decrimilized sodomy by the Prime Minister, by saying and quoting: “the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation”
1970 – The third annual Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last UK performance from Jimi Hendrix, opens in Great Britain.
1970 – Melissa McCarthy was born. Actress (”Gilmore Girls”)
1970 – Olimpiada Ivanova was born. Russian athlete
1971 – Thalía was born. Mexican singer
1972 – Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
1974 – Charles Lindbergh dies (b. 1902). American aviator, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic.
1976 – Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
1976 – Zemfira was born. Russian singer
1976 – Lotte Lehmann dies (b. 1888). German soprano.
1977 – Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1977 – Saeko Chiba was born. Japanese seiyuu
1977 – Morris Peterson was born. American basketball player
1978 – Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pontiff took the name Pope John Paul I.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1978 – Charles Boyer dies: suicide (b. 28 Aug 1899). French actor.
1978 – José Manuel Moreno dies (b. 1916). Argentine footballer.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player
1979 – Cristian Mora was born. Ecuadorian footballer
1979 – Rubén Pazos was born. Spanish footballer
1979 – Mika Waltari dies (b. 1908). Finnish author.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1980 – Macaulay Culkin was born. American actor (Home Alone, My Girl)
1980 – Chris Pine was born. American actor
1980 – Brendan Harris was born. American baseball player
1980 – Tex Avery dies (b. 1908). American cartoonist.
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty dies (b. 1874). German actress.
1981 – Jesse Martin was born. Australian yachtsman
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin dies (b. 1884). American founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
1981 – Lee Elhardt Hays dies (b. 1914). American folksinger.
1982 – Petey Williams was born. Canadian professional wrestler
1983 – Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1983 – Félix Porteiro was born. Spanish racing driver
1986 – Cassie Ventura was born. American singer
1986 – Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
1986 – Em Estugarda, a atleta portuguesa Rosa Mota ganha a medalha de ouro na maratona dos Campeonatos Europeus de Atletismo.
1986 – Ted Knight dies (b. 1923). American actor.
1987 – President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1987 – Georg Wittig dies (b. 1897). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1988 – Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1988 – Danielle Savre was born. American actress
1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este was born.
1988 – Carlos Paião dies (b. 1957). Portuguese singer.
1989 – Irving Stone dies (b. 1903). American author
1990 – Mário Pinto de Andrade dies. Angolan writer.
1990 – Minoru Honda dies (b. 1913). Japanese astronomer.
1992 – Arthur Leigh Allen dies (b. 1933). Suspected Zodiac serial killer.1992 – Bob de Moor dies (b. 1925). Belgian comics artist.
1993 – Keke Palmer was born. American actress
1994 – Portugal: No Casino do Estoril, Jackpot nas slot machines dá 155 700 contos a um jogador de 91 anos.
1994 – Jesus Otero Oreña dies (b. 1908). Spanish sculptor.
1995 – The International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of Rugby Union, thus bringing the game’s amateur age to an end.
1995 – Ronald White dies (b. 1939). American singer and songwriter (The Miracles).
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1998 – Frederick Reines dies (b. 1918). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1999 – Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2000 – Akbar Adibi dies (b. 1939). Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran.
2001 – Louis Muhlstock dies (b. 1904). Canadian painter.
2002 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2002 – Chile ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 – A Venezuela anuncia adesão ao Mercosul
2003 – Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2003 – Jim Wacker dies (b. 1937). American football coach
2004 – Os jogadores do FC Porto arrebatam a maioria dos prémios da Uefa para a época 2003/2004. Vítor Baía é considerado o melhor guarda-redes, Ricardo Carvalho o melhor defesa e Deco o jogador mais valioso (MVP): José Mourinho é eleito o melhor treinador.
2004 – Laura Branigan dies (b. 1957). American singer.
2005 – Denis D’Amour dies (b. 1960). Canadian guitarist (Voivod)
2005 – Robert Denning dies (b. 1927). American interior designer.
2006 – Rainer Barzel dies (b. 1924). President of the German Bundestag.
2006 – Clyde Walcott dies (b. 1926). Barbadian West Indies cricketer.
2007 – Alberto de Lacerda (b. 20 Sep 1928). Portuguese poet.
St Zephyrinus Day
Namibia – Namibia Day or Heroes’ Day.
Philippines – National Heroes’ Day.
Zanzibar – Sultan’s Birthday.
United States – Women’s Equality Day
On this day in History – Aug 26
0055 BC- Julius Caesar invades Britain
1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohmia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
1278 – Premysl Ottokar II dies. King of Bohemia
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor.
1346 – Hundred Years’ War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the Frenc combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy: Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297), Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304), John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296), Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320).
1349 – Thomas Bradwardine dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1429 – Joan of Arc enters Paris.
1466 – A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples was born (d. 1496).
1492 – Alexander VI is crowned Pope in Basilica of St. Peter. 215th Pope.
1498 – Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1540 – King Magnus of Livonia was born (d. 1583).
1550 – Fundação do Convento de Santo Domingo (Colômbia)
1551 – Margareta Leijonhufvud dies (b. 1516). Queen of Sweden.
1572 – Petrus Ramus dies (b. 1515). French philosopher.
1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato dies (b. 1531). Claimant to the throne of Portugal / Morre, em França, D. António, O Prior do Crato (n. 1531). Rei de Portugal (19 Jun 1580 – 25 Ago 1581 data da derrota de Alcântara).
1666 – Frans Hals dies. Dutch painter
1676 – Robert Walpole was born (d. 1745). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1694 – Elisha Williams was born (d. 1755). American rector of Yale College.
1714 – Edward Fowler dies (b. 1632). English Bishop of Gloucester.
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek dies (b. 1632). Dutch scientist
1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert was born (d. 1777). German scientist.
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle was born (d. 1790). French chemist.
1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
1743 – Antoine Lavoisier was born (d. 1794). French chemist.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1775 – William Joseph Behr was born (d. 1851). German writer.
1778 – The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia.
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville dies (b. 1716). British soldier and politician.
1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
1789 – Abbas Mirza was born (d. 1833). Prince of Persia.
1792 – Manuel Oribe was born (d. 1857). Uruguayan political figure
1818 – The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia.
1839 – The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1845 – Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols was born (d. 1888). Widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper
1847 – Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1850 – Charles Robert Richet was born (d. 1935). French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1850 – Louis-Philippe of France dies (b. 1773)
1858 – First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1862 – Herbert Booth was born (d. 1926). The third son of William and Catherine Booth
1865 – Johann Franz Encke dies (b. 1791). German astronomer.
1870 – Manuel Jesús Ortiz was born. Chilean educator and writer.
1873 – Lee DeForest was born (d. 1961). American inventor.
1874 – Zona Gale was borm (d. 1938). American novelist.
1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born (d. 1940). Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada
1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire was born (d. 1918). French poet and art critic.
1882 – James Franck was born in Hamburg (d. 1964). German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1925.
1883 – Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
1885 – Jules Romain (Louis Farigoule) was born in Saint Julien Chapteuil, Cevenas (d. 14 Aug 1972). French novelist, dramatist and poet.
1894 – Sparky Adams was born (d. 1989). Baseball player.
1896 – “Cry of Balntawak” (” Grito de Balintawak”): Rebenta a insurreição armada nas Filipinas contra o domínio espanhol.
1896 – Ivan Mihailov was born (d. 1990). Bulgarian revolutionary
1897 – Yoon Boseon was born (d. 1990). President of South Korea.
1898 – Peggy Guggenheim was born (d. 1979). American art collector.
1899 – Rufino Tamayo was born (d. 1991). Mexican painter.
1900 – Hellmuth Walter was born (d. 1980). German engineer and inventor.
1901 – Maxwell Taylor was born (d. 1987). American general.
1901 – Chen Yi was born (d. 1972). Chinese communist military commander and politician.
1904 – Christopher Isherwood was born (d. 1986). Anglo-American writer.
1906 – Albert Sabin was born in Byalistok, Polonia (d. 3 Mar 1993). American microbiologist; developed oral polio vaccine.
1908 – Aubrey Schenck was born (d. 1999). Film producer.
1908 – Simão Mathias was born. Brazilian chemist.
1908 – Tony Pastor dies (b. 1837). American vaudeville performer.
1909 – Jim Davis was born (d. 1981). American actor.
1909 – Gene Moore was born (d. 1978). Baseball player.
1910 – Mother Teresa was born (d. 1997). Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.
1910 – William James dies (b. 1842). American psychologist and philosopher.
1914 – Julio Cortázar was born (d. 1984). Argentine writer (“Rayuela”) .
1914 – Societá Sportiva Palestra Itália, later Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, is founded in São Paulo, Brazil.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
1914 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1915 – John Bunny dies (b. 1863). American comedian
1920 – 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920 – Brant Parker was born (d. 2007). American cartoonist.
1921 – Benjamin Bradlee was born. American journalist
1922 – Irving R. Levine was born. American journalist
1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch was born. German conductor and pianist
1924 – Alex Kellner was born (d. 1996). Baseball player.
1925 – Jack Hirshleifer was born (d. 2005). American economist.
1925 – Alain Peyrefitte was born (d. 1999). French politician and writer.
1928 – May Donoghue drinks a bottle of ginger beer at a cafe in Paisley, Scotland and finds the remains of a snail in the bottle. She launches a civil action against the drink manufacturer which becomes one of the famous cases in English Common Law; that of Donoghue v. Stevenson.
1928 – Peter Appleyard was born. Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 – Naïm Kattan was born. Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 – Lon Chaney, Sr. dies (b. 1883). American actor.
1931 – Portugal: “Reviralhismo” .Tentativa de golpe de estado contra a ditadura : Um grupo de oficiais procura sublevar o Quartel de Metralhadoras 1 em Lisboa, sem sucesso.
1934 – Tom Heinsohn was born. American basketball player and commentator
1935 – Geraldine Ferraro was born. U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – First world TV transmission, produced by The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
1936 – Yvette Vickers was born. American actress
1939 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 – Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor.
1940 – Don LaFontaine was born. American voice actor
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi was born. Japanese actress
1941 – Chris Curtis was born (d. 2005). English singer and drummer (The searchers)
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot.
1942 – Dennis Turner was born. British politician.
1942 – Vic Dana was born. American singer
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1944 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester was born.
1944 – Maureen Tucker was born. American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz dies executed. German anti-Nazi diplomat.
1945 – Tom Ridge was born. First United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1945 – Franz Werfel dies (b. 1890). Austrian writer.
1946 – Mark Snow was born. American composer
1946 – Zhou Ji was born. Education Minister of the People’s Republic of China
1946 – Chantal Renaud was born. Quebec singer and actress
1946 – Valerie Simpson was born. American singer.
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson dies (b. 1887). American actress and screenwriter.
1950 – Jerome “Pop” Pentsky was born. Co-founder and president of Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
1952 – Bryon Baltimore was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1952 – Will Shortz was born. New York Times crossword editor
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1953 – Pat Sharkey was born. Irish footballer
1954 – Efren Reyes was born. World Pool Player
1957 – The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a “super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket … a few days ago,” according to the Soviet news agency, TASS.
1957 – É proclamada a independencia da Namíbia
1957 – Dr. Alban was born. Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 – Rick Hansen was born. Canadian paraplegic athlete
1957 – Cláudia Telles was born. Brazilian singer.
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams dies (b. 1872). English composer
1960 – Branford Marsalis was born. American saxophonist and bandleader
1960 – Nancy Martinez was born. Canadian-born singer
1961 – Jeff Parrett was born. American baseball player
1962 – Bob Mionske was born. American cyclist and attorney
1965 – Chris Burke was born. American actor
1965 – Bobby Duncum, Jr. was born (d. 2000). Wrestler.
1966 – Jacques Brinkman was born. Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Shirley Manson was born. Scottish singer
1967 – Kelly Madison was born. Porn star
1968 – The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1968 – The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” is released (in a shortened version) as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label, to spend nine weeks as number one, a record for any Beatles single.
1968 – Christopher Boardman was born. English cyclist.
1968 – Kay Francis dies (b. 1899). American actress.
1969 – Canada decrimilized sodomy by the Prime Minister, by saying and quoting: “the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation”
1970 – The third annual Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last UK performance from Jimi Hendrix, opens in Great Britain.
1970 – Melissa McCarthy was born. Actress (”Gilmore Girls”)
1970 – Olimpiada Ivanova was born. Russian athlete
1971 – Thalía was born. Mexican singer
1972 – Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
1974 – Charles Lindbergh dies (b. 1902). American aviator, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic.
1976 – Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
1976 – Zemfira was born. Russian singer
1976 – Lotte Lehmann dies (b. 1888). German soprano.
1977 – Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1977 – Saeko Chiba was born. Japanese seiyuu
1977 – Morris Peterson was born. American basketball player
1978 – Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pontiff took the name Pope John Paul I.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1978 – Charles Boyer dies: suicide (b. 28 Aug 1899). French actor.
1978 – José Manuel Moreno dies (b. 1916). Argentine footballer.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player
1979 – Cristian Mora was born. Ecuadorian footballer
1979 – Rubén Pazos was born. Spanish footballer
1979 – Mika Waltari dies (b. 1908). Finnish author.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1980 – Macaulay Culkin was born. American actor (Home Alone, My Girl)
1980 – Chris Pine was born. American actor
1980 – Brendan Harris was born. American baseball player
1980 – Tex Avery dies (b. 1908). American cartoonist.
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty dies (b. 1874). German actress.
1981 – Jesse Martin was born. Australian yachtsman
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin dies (b. 1884). American founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
1981 – Lee Elhardt Hays dies (b. 1914). American folksinger.
1982 – Petey Williams was born. Canadian professional wrestler
1983 – Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1983 – Félix Porteiro was born. Spanish racing driver
1986 – Cassie Ventura was born. American singer
1986 – Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
1986 – Em Estugarda, a atleta portuguesa Rosa Mota ganha a medalha de ouro na maratona dos Campeonatos Europeus de Atletismo.
1986 – Ted Knight dies (b. 1923). American actor.
1987 – President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1987 – Georg Wittig dies (b. 1897). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1988 – Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1988 – Danielle Savre was born. American actress
1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este was born.
1988 – Carlos Paião dies (b. 1957). Portuguese singer.
1989 – Irving Stone dies (b. 1903). American author
1990 – Mário Pinto de Andrade dies. Angolan writer.
1990 – Minoru Honda dies (b. 1913). Japanese astronomer.
1992 – Arthur Leigh Allen dies (b. 1933). Suspected Zodiac serial killer.1992 – Bob de Moor dies (b. 1925). Belgian comics artist.
1993 – Keke Palmer was born. American actress
1994 – Portugal: No Casino do Estoril, Jackpot nas slot machines dá 155 700 contos a um jogador de 91 anos.
1994 – Jesus Otero Oreña dies (b. 1908). Spanish sculptor.
1995 – The International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of Rugby Union, thus bringing the game’s amateur age to an end.
1995 – Ronald White dies (b. 1939). American singer and songwriter (The Miracles).
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1998 – Frederick Reines dies (b. 1918). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1999 – Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2000 – Akbar Adibi dies (b. 1939). Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran.
2001 – Louis Muhlstock dies (b. 1904). Canadian painter.
2002 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2002 – Chile ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 – A Venezuela anuncia adesão ao Mercosul
2003 – Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2003 – Jim Wacker dies (b. 1937). American football coach
2004 – Os jogadores do FC Porto arrebatam a maioria dos prémios da Uefa para a época 2003/2004. Vítor Baía é considerado o melhor guarda-redes, Ricardo Carvalho o melhor defesa e Deco o jogador mais valioso (MVP): José Mourinho é eleito o melhor treinador.
2004 – Laura Branigan dies (b. 1957). American singer.
2005 – Denis D’Amour dies (b. 1960). Canadian guitarist (Voivod)
2005 – Robert Denning dies (b. 1927). American interior designer.
2006 – Rainer Barzel dies (b. 1924). President of the German Bundestag.
2006 – Clyde Walcott dies (b. 1926). Barbadian West Indies cricketer.
St Zephyrinus Day
Namibia – Namibia Day or Heroes’ Day.
Philippines – National Heroes’ Day.
Zanzibar – Sultan’s Birthday.
United States – Women’s Equality Day
On this day in History – Aug 26
0055 BC- Julius Caesar invades Britain
1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohmia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
1278 – Premysl Ottokar II dies. King of Bohemia
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor.
1346 – Hundred Years’ War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the Frenc combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy: Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297), Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304), John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296), Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320).
1349 – Thomas Bradwardine dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1429 – Joan of Arc enters Paris.
1466 – A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples was born (d. 1496).
1492 – Alexander VI is crowned Pope in Basilica of St. Peter. 215th Pope.
1498 – Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1540 – King Magnus of Livonia was born (d. 1583).
1550 – Fundação do Convento de Santo Domingo (Colômbia)
1551 – Margareta Leijonhufvud dies (b. 1516). Queen of Sweden.
1572 – Petrus Ramus dies (b. 1515). French philosopher.
1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato dies (b. 1531). Claimant to the throne of Portugal / Morre, em França, D. António, O Prior do Crato (n. 1531). Rei de Portugal (19 Jun 1580 – 25 Ago 1581 data da derrota de Alcântara).
1666 – Frans Hals dies. Dutch painter
1676 – Robert Walpole was born (d. 1745). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1694 – Elisha Williams was born (d. 1755). American rector of Yale College.
1714 – Edward Fowler dies (b. 1632). English Bishop of Gloucester.
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek dies (b. 1632). Dutch scientist
1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert was born (d. 1777). German scientist.
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle was born (d. 1790). French chemist.
1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
1743 – Antoine Lavoisier was born (d. 1794). French chemist.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1775 – William Joseph Behr was born (d. 1851). German writer.
1778 – The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia.
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville dies (b. 1716). British soldier and politician.
1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
1789 – Abbas Mirza was born (d. 1833). Prince of Persia.
1792 – Manuel Oribe was born (d. 1857). Uruguayan political figure
1818 – The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia.
1839 – The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1845 – Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols was born (d. 1888). Widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper
1847 – Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1850 – Charles Robert Richet was born (d. 1935). French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1850 – Louis-Philippe of France dies (b. 1773)
1858 – First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1862 – Herbert Booth was born (d. 1926). The third son of William and Catherine Booth
1865 – Johann Franz Encke dies (b. 1791). German astronomer.
1870 – Manuel Jesús Ortiz was born. Chilean educator and writer.
1873 – Lee DeForest was born (d. 1961). American inventor.
1874 – Zona Gale was borm (d. 1938). American novelist.
1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born (d. 1940). Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada
1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire was born (d. 1918). French poet and art critic.
1882 – James Franck was born in Hamburg (d. 1964). German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1925.
1883 – Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
1885 – Jules Romain (Louis Farigoule) was born in Saint Julien Chapteuil, Cevenas (d. 14 Aug 1972). French novelist, dramatist and poet.
1894 – Sparky Adams was born (d. 1989). Baseball player.
1896 – “Cry of Balntawak” (” Grito de Balintawak”): Rebenta a insurreição armada nas Filipinas contra o domínio espanhol.
1896 – Ivan Mihailov was born (d. 1990). Bulgarian revolutionary
1897 – Yoon Boseon was born (d. 1990). President of South Korea.
1898 – Peggy Guggenheim was born (d. 1979). American art collector.
1899 – Rufino Tamayo was born (d. 1991). Mexican painter.
1900 – Hellmuth Walter was born (d. 1980). German engineer and inventor.
1901 – Maxwell Taylor was born (d. 1987). American general.
1901 – Chen Yi was born (d. 1972). Chinese communist military commander and politician.
1904 – Christopher Isherwood was born (d. 1986). Anglo-American writer.
1906 – Albert Sabin was born in Byalistok, Polonia (d. 3 Mar 1993). American microbiologist; developed oral polio vaccine.
1908 – Aubrey Schenck was born (d. 1999). Film producer.
1908 – Simão Mathias was born. Brazilian chemist.
1908 – Tony Pastor dies (b. 1837). American vaudeville performer.
1909 – Jim Davis was born (d. 1981). American actor.
1909 – Gene Moore was born (d. 1978). Baseball player.
1910 – Mother Teresa was born (d. 1997). Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.
1910 – William James dies (b. 1842). American psychologist and philosopher.
1914 – Julio Cortázar was born (d. 1984). Argentine writer (“Rayuela”) .
1914 – Societá Sportiva Palestra Itália, later Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, is founded in São Paulo, Brazil.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
1914 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1915 – John Bunny dies (b. 1863). American comedian
1920 – 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920 – Brant Parker was born (d. 2007). American cartoonist.
1921 – Benjamin Bradlee was born. American journalist
1922 – Irving R. Levine was born. American journalist
1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch was born. German conductor and pianist
1924 – Alex Kellner was born (d. 1996). Baseball player.
1925 – Jack Hirshleifer was born (d. 2005). American economist.
1925 – Alain Peyrefitte was born (d. 1999). French politician and writer.
1928 – May Donoghue drinks a bottle of ginger beer at a cafe in Paisley, Scotland and finds the remains of a snail in the bottle. She launches a civil action against the drink manufacturer which becomes one of the famous cases in English Common Law; that of Donoghue v. Stevenson.
1928 – Peter Appleyard was born. Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 – Naïm Kattan was born. Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 – Lon Chaney, Sr. dies (b. 1883). American actor.
1931 – Portugal: “Reviralhismo” .Tentativa de golpe de estado contra a ditadura : Um grupo de oficiais procura sublevar o Quartel de Metralhadoras 1 em Lisboa, sem sucesso.
1934 – Tom Heinsohn was born. American basketball player and commentator
1935 – Geraldine Ferraro was born. U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – First world TV transmission, produced by The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
1936 – Yvette Vickers was born. American actress
1939 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 – Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor.
1940 – Don LaFontaine was born. American voice actor
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi was born. Japanese actress
1941 – Chris Curtis was born (d. 2005). English singer and drummer (The searchers)
1941 – Barbet Schroeder was born. Swiss film director
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot.
1942 – Dennis Turner was born. British politician.
1942 – Vic Dana was born. American singer
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1944 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester was born.
1944 – Maureen Tucker was born. American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz dies executed. German anti-Nazi diplomat.
1945 – Tom Ridge was born. First United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1945 – Franz Werfel dies (b. 1890). Austrian writer.
1946 – Mark Snow was born. American composer
1946 – Zhou Ji was born. Education Minister of the People’s Republic of China
1946 – Chantal Renaud was born. Quebec singer and actress
1946 – Valerie Simpson was born. American singer.
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson dies (b. 1887). American actress and screenwriter.
1950 – Jerome “Pop” Pentsky was born. Co-founder and president of Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
1952 – Bryon Baltimore was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1952 – Will Shortz was born. New York Times crossword editor
1952 – Michael Jeter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
1953 – Pat Sharkey was born. Irish footballer
1954 – Efren Reyes was born. World Pool Player
1957 – The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a “super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket … a few days ago,” according to the Soviet news agency, TASS.
1957 – É proclamada a independencia da Namíbia
1957 – Dr. Alban was born. Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 – Rick Hansen was born. Canadian paraplegic athlete
1957 – Cláudia Telles was born. Brazilian singer.
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams dies (b. 1872). English composer
1960 – Branford Marsalis was born. American saxophonist and bandleader
1960 – Nancy Martinez was born. Canadian-born singer
1961 – Jeff Parrett was born. American baseball player
1962 – Bob Mionske was born. American cyclist and attorney
1965 – Chris Burke was born. American actor
1965 – Bobby Duncum, Jr. was born (d. 2000). Wrestler.
1966 – Jacques Brinkman was born. Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Shirley Manson was born. Scottish singer
1967 – Kelly Madison was born. Porn star
1968 – The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1968 – The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” is released (in a shortened version) as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label, to spend nine weeks as number one, a record for any Beatles single.
1968 – Christopher Boardman was born. English cyclist.
1968 – Kay Francis dies (b. 1899). American actress.
1969 – Canada decrimilized sodomy by the Prime Minister, by saying and quoting: “the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation”
1970 – The third annual Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last UK performance from Jimi Hendrix, opens in Great Britain.
1970 – Melissa McCarthy was born. Actress (”Gilmore Girls”)
1970 – Olimpiada Ivanova was born. Russian athlete
1971 – Thalía was born. Mexican singer
1972 – Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
1974 – Charles Lindbergh dies (b. 1902). American aviator, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic.
1976 – Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
1976 – Zemfira was born. Russian singer
1976 – Lotte Lehmann dies (b. 1888). German soprano.
1977 – Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1977 – Saeko Chiba was born. Japanese seiyuu
1977 – Morris Peterson was born. American basketball player
1978 – Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pontiff took the name Pope John Paul I.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1978 – Charles Boyer dies: suicide (b. 28 Aug 1899). French actor.
1978 – José Manuel Moreno dies (b. 1916). Argentine footballer.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player
1979 – Cristian Mora was born. Ecuadorian footballer
1979 – Rubén Pazos was born. Spanish footballer
1979 – Mika Waltari dies (b. 1908). Finnish author.
1979 – Jamal Lewis was born. American football player.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1980 – Macaulay Culkin was born. American actor (Home Alone, My Girl)
1980 – Chris Pine was born. American actor
1980 – Brendan Harris was born. American baseball player
1980 – Tex Avery dies (b. 1908). American cartoonist.
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty dies (b. 1874). German actress.
1981 – Jesse Martin was born. Australian yachtsman
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin dies (b. 1884). American founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
1981 – Lee Elhardt Hays dies (b. 1914). American folksinger.
1982 – Petey Williams was born. Canadian professional wrestler
1983 – Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1983 – Félix Porteiro was born. Spanish racing driver
1986 – Cassie Ventura was born. American singer
1986 – Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
1986 – Em Estugarda, a atleta portuguesa Rosa Mota ganha a medalha de ouro na maratona dos Campeonatos Europeus de Atletismo.
1986 – Ted Knight dies (b. 1923). American actor.
1987 – President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1987 – Georg Wittig dies (b. 1897). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1988 – Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1988 – Danielle Savre was born. American actress
1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este was born.
1988 – Carlos Paião dies (b. 1957). Portuguese singer.
1989 – Irving Stone dies (b. 1903). American author
1990 – Mário Pinto de Andrade dies. Angolan writer.
1990 – Minoru Honda dies (b. 1913). Japanese astronomer.
1992 – Arthur Leigh Allen dies (b. 1933). Suspected Zodiac serial killer.1992 – Bob de Moor dies (b. 1925). Belgian comics artist.
1993 – Keke Palmer was born. American actress
1994 – Portugal: No Casino do Estoril, Jackpot nas slot machines dá 155 700 contos a um jogador de 91 anos.
1994 – Jesus Otero Oreña dies (b. 1908). Spanish sculptor.
1995 – The International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of Rugby Union, thus bringing the game’s amateur age to an end.
1995 – Ronald White dies (b. 1939). American singer and songwriter (The Miracles).
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1998 – Frederick Reines dies (b. 1918). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1999 – Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2000 – Akbar Adibi dies (b. 1939). Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran.
2001 – Louis Muhlstock dies (b. 1904). Canadian painter.
2002 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2002 – Chile ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 – A Venezuela anuncia adesão ao Mercosul
2003 – Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2003 – Jim Wacker dies (b. 1937). American football coach
2004 – Os jogadores do FC Porto arrebatam a maioria dos prémios da Uefa para a época 2003/2004. Vítor Baía é considerado o melhor guarda-redes, Ricardo Carvalho o melhor defesa e Deco o jogador mais valioso (MVP): José Mourinho é eleito o melhor treinador.
2004 – Laura Branigan dies (b. 1957). American singer.
2005 – Denis D’Amour dies (b. 1960). Canadian guitarist (Voivod)
2005 – Robert Denning dies (b. 1927). American interior designer.
2006 – Rainer Barzel dies (b. 1924). President of the German Bundestag.
2006 – Clyde Walcott dies (b. 1926). Barbadian West Indies cricketer.
2007 – Alberto de Lacerda(b. 20 Sep 1928). Portuguese poet.
St Zephyrinus Day
Namibia – Namibia Day or Heroes’ Day.
Philippines – National Heroes’ Day.
Zanzibar – Sultan’s Birthday.
United States – Women’s Equality Day
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