26. Wēodmōnðes

**26 Wēodmōnaþ** is se 238oða dæg þæs gēares in þǣre Gregoriscan gerīmbēc (239oða in hlēapgēarum). Þǣr sind 127 belīfendra daga.

## Belimpas

*55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain
*AD 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
*1278 - Ladislaus IV Ungerlandes and Rudolph I Þēodisclandes defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
*1346 - Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crēcy.
*1429 - Joan of Arc enters Paris.
*1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
*1778 - The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia.
*1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
*1839 - Þæt scip *[[Amistad]]* hæftode man be Langum Īeglande.
*1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
*1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run begins in the American Civil War.
*1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
*1914 - Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg. 
*1914 - The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
*1914 - The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
*1920 - 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
*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 Fēlix Ēbouē, France's first black colonial governor.
*1944 - Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
*1957 - The USSR tests an ICBM.
*1968 - Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois
*1968 - The Beatles' Hey Jude is released as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label.
*1972 - Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
*1976 - Raymond Barre wierþ Fyrmestscealc Franclandes.
*1978 - Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy.
*1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
*1986 - Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
*1987 - President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
*1988 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
* 1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
*2002 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ēric Gagnē converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
*2002 - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
*2003 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

## Byrda
*1676 - Robert Walpole, Fyrmestscealc þæs Geānlǣhtan Cynerīces (d. 1745)
*1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
*1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
*1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
*1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
*1873 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)
*1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
*1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
*1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
*1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
*1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
*1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
*1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
*1901 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
*1904 - Christopher Isherwood, Anglo-American writer (d. 1986)
*1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
*1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
*1914 - Julio Cortāzar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
*1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist
*1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
*1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
*1934 - Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
*1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
*1941 - Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
*1942 - Dennis Turner, British politician
*1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
*1946 - Valerie Simpson, American singer
*1952 - Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
*1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian singer
*1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
*1971 - Thalīa, Mexican actress
*1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
*1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American actor

## Dēaðas
*1278 - Premysl Ottokar II
*1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Arcebisceop on Cantwarbyrg
*1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, Cwēn Swēolandes (b. 1516)
*1666 - Frans Hals, Niðerlendisc mētere
*1714 - Edward Fowler, Englisc Bisceop Glēawceastre (b. 1632)
*1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
*1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
*1915 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
*1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
*1945 - Franz Werfel, Ēastrīcisc wrītere (b. 1890)
*1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
*1968 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
*1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
*1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
*1978 - Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
*1979 - Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
*1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
*1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, American founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
*1986 - Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
*1989 - Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
*1990 - Minoru Honda, Iapanisc astronomer (b. 1913)
*1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
*2003 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
*2004 - Laura Branigan, American sangestre (b. 1957)

## Holidays and observances

*Namibia Day or Heroes' Day (Namibia)
*Sultan's Birthday (Zanzibar)
*St Zephyrinus Day

## Ūtanwearde bendas
* BBC: On This Day

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