About August 26
August 26, 2024 is the 239th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 156 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 26
- 1071 –Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
- 1278 –Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
- 1429 –Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.
- 1466 –A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
- 1789 –The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
- 1810 –The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
- 1813 –War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
- 1818 –Illinois becomes the 21st state in the union of the United States.
- 1821 –The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is oficially opened.
- 1883 –The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
- 1920 –The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
- 1940 –Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor.
- 1942 –Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
- 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, ITAR-TASS.
- 1966 –The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
- 1970 –The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women’s Strike for Equality.
- 1980 –John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, US.
- 1997 –Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
- 1999 –Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
- 2011 –The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
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