page_title: August 1901
section_title: August 26, 1901 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: August 1901 / August 26, 1901 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the title page of the w:American Standard Version of the Bible, published in 1901 (the copyright was renewed in 1929). The copyright on the text has expired.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in August 1901:
context_section_description: The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, a revision of the King James Version, was published by Thomas Nelson and Sons after translators had worked for decades "in hope of a revision that would more adequately represent the American scholars' insights and style of English language."  
  The village of Hamtramck, Michigan (pronounced Ham-TRAM-ik) was incorporated.  It would be incorporated as a city in 1922, by which time it had become a center for Polish-Americans.  Hamtramck and a smaller city that borders it, Highland Park, are entirely surrounded by the city of Detroit.
  Born:
  General Maxwell D. Taylor, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later United States Ambassador to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War; in Keytesville, Missouri (d. 1987)
  Marshal Chen Yi, Chinese general and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1958 to 1972, near Chengdu (d. 1972)
  Jimmy Rushing, American blues musician, in Oklahoma City (d. 1972)
  Eleanor Dark, Australian novelist, in Sydney (d. 1965)
  Adhemar Gonzaga, Brazilian film producer, in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1978)
  Jan de Quay, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1959 to 1963, in 's-Hertogenbosch (d. 1985)
caption: American version
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