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

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

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