About August 26
August 26, 2021 is the 238th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 159 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 26
- 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.
- 1303 –Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
- 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 Crécy.
- 1429 –Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.
- 1498 –Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
- 1748 –The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1778 –The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
- 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).
- 1814 –Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
- 1818 –Illinois becomes the 21st state in the union of the United States.
- 1821 –The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is oficially opened.
- 1914 –World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
- 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.
- 1978 –Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
- 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.
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