26 August

The 26t o August is the 238t day o the year (239t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 127 days bidin.

 Events 
 55 BC - Julius Caesar lands in the Sooth-East o Ingland.
 1346 - Battle o Crécy: Edward III o Ingland defeats Philip VI o Fraunce. 
 1429 - Joan o Arc enters Paris.
 1542 - Spaingie conquistador Francisco de Orellana an his expedeetion reach the mouth o the Amazon River.
 1789 - The "Declaration o the Richts o Man an o the Ceetizen" is acceptit bi the French Naitional Assembly at the Palace o Versailles.
 1821 - The Varsity o Buenos Aires is foondit.
 1878 - Uyedineniya Island (forby kent as Lonely Island), ane o Roushie's remotest isles, in the Arctic Ocean, is discoverit bi Norse sailor Edvard Holm Johannesen. 
 1883 - Stairt o the final massive eruption o Krakatoa.
 1920 - Weemen in the Unitit States get the right tae vote.
 1922 - Japanese cruiser Niitaka sinks in a storm aff the wast coast o Eastren Roushie's Kamchatka peninsula, killin aw 400 on baird.
 1944 - Warld War II: Bulgarie declares neutrality.
 1944 - Warld War II: Leeberation o Paris - Charles de Gaulle enters the ceety, as crowds celebrate the leeberation.
 1966 - The Namibie War o Unthirldom stairts.
 1972 - The 1972 Simmer Olympics in Munich, then-Wast Germany, begin.
 1978 - Pape John Paul I is electit.
 1991 - Iceland is the first kintra tae recognise the unthirldom o the Baltic States, Estonie, Latvie an Lithuanie.
 2008 - Roushie unilaterally recognises Abkhazie an Sooth Ossetie.
 2011 - Naoto Kan propales his demission as Prime meenister o Japan.
 2014 - A ceasefire ends seven weeks o conflict atween Israel an the Gaza Strip.

 Births 
 1676 – Robert Walpole, Breetish Prime Meenister (d. 1745)
 1743 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
 1819 – Albert, German-born Prince Consort o Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
 1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scots novelist an poleetician (d. 1940)
 1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, playwricht an novelist (d. 1918)
 1882 – James Franck, German pheesicist (d. 1964)
 1897 – Yun Posun, Preses o Sooth Korea (d. 1990)
 1904 – Christopher Isherwood, Inglis writer (d. 1986)
 1910 – Mither Teresa, Albanian nun (d. 1997)
 1946 – Don Masson, Scots fitbawer
 1954 – David Martin, Scots poleetician
 1966 – Shirley Manson, Scots sangster-sangwriter, memmer o Garbage
 1967 – Michael Gove, Scots poleetician
 1970 – Melissa McCarthy, American actress
 1971 – Thalía, Mexican sangster and actress
 1980 – Macaulay Culkin, American actor
 1980 – Chris Pine, American actor
 1983 – Nicol David, Malaysie squash player
 1993 – Keke Palmer, American actress
 1998 – Kyle Magennis, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
 1850 – Louis Philippe I o Fraunce (b. 1773)
 1869 – James Begbie, Scots medicinar (b. 1798)
 1945 – Franz Werfel, Austrick writer (b. 1890)
 1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, Inglis componer (b. 1872)
 1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
 1991 – Willie Thornton, Scots fitbawer (b. 1920)
 1998 – Frederick Reines, American pheesicist (b. 1918)

 Halidays 
 Heroes Day (Namibie)
 Weemen's Equality Day (Unitit States)

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Category:Days o the year