August 26

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[edit] Events

• 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain.
• 1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
• 1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
• 1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
• 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.
• 1944 - World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
• 1968 - The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1972 - Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
• 1978 - Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy.

[edit] Births

• 1915 - Emory Burke, White activist and co-founded of The Columbians (d. 2002)
• 1945 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security

[edit] Deaths

• 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
• 1976 - Douglas Reed, British journalist and author (b. 1895)