1071 – Battle of Manzikert: Seljuq Turks led by sultan Alp Arslan beat and capture Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes,
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolf I of Germany defeat Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1303 – Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khilji captures Chittorgarh, capital of the Guhila Kingdom
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, south of Calais in northern France. Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army. Cannons are used for first time in battle.
1444 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.
1466 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà sculpture by French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères
1545 Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese as Duke of Parma
1629 Cambridge Agreement, Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate
1634 Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Spanish forces defeat a force of Swedish and German protestants
1641 West India Company conquers Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1648 People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
1652 Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacked a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. Dutch victory
1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley first observes the comet named after him
1691 Charles Perrault's poem "The Marquise of Salusses or the Patience of Griselidis" read aloud at the French Academy, later attached to his "Tales of Mother Goose" (1697)
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
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.
1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
1810 – The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata 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.
1821 – The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is officially opened.
1843 American inventor Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1873 – The first free kindergarten in the U.S. is started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, MO.
1874 16 blacks kidnapped from Gibson County Jail and lynched in Trenton, Tennessee
1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
1894 Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1895 Electric generator at Niagara Falls produces first power
1896 Armenian Revolutionary Federation assaults the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople to draw attention to the mass-pogroms and massacres of Armenians instigated by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul-Hamid II
1907: Magician Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.
1914 – In Brazil, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is founded.
1914 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20 day campaign.
1914 -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 – In Brazil, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is founded.
1914 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20 day campaign.
1914 -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 Battle of Tannenberg begins (WWI): 8th German army defeats Russian Second army
1914 – World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fought a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
1915 German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1914 – World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fought a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
1915 German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1918 Winchell Smith & Frank Bacon's comedic play "Lightnin'" premieres in NYC
1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving American women the right to vote, was certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
1939 – The first Major League baseball game broadcast on television was a double header played by the Brooklyn Dodgers vs. the Cincinnati Reds at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
1939 Belgium mobilizes
1939 Croatia gets autonomous status
1940 – Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 Japanese troops land on Milne Bay, New Guinea
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1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka driven onto rocks in storm at Kamchatka, 284 killed
1924 The Catastrophe of Smyrna: known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. (August 13 OS)
1937 General Franco's Nationalist troops conquer Santander during the Spanish Civil War
1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is finished
1938 British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
1939 – The first Major League baseball game broadcast on television was a double header played by the Brooklyn Dodgers vs. the Cincinnati Reds at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
1939 Belgium mobilizes
1939 Croatia gets autonomous status
1940 – Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 Japanese troops land on Milne Bay, New Guinea
1942 Soviet counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 – The 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 Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France. Transport #24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany.
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris, marching along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.
1966 – The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
1967 The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, and Donovan meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at a retreat in Bangor, Wales
1967 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1968 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles in US (Billboard Song of the Year 1968,
1942 – The 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 Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France. Transport #24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany.
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris, marching along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.
1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender
at the end of WWII
1951 Dutch professor Jacob Jongbloed demonstrates an artificial heart in Paris
1951 Film "An American In Paris" with music by George Gershwin,
directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron
premieres in London (Academy Awards Best Picture, 1952).
1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
1957 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1959 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor,
designed by Alec Issigonis, it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers
1964 Italian Communist Party selects Luigi Longo as chairman
1964 LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1966 – The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
1967 The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, and Donovan meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at a retreat in Bangor, Wales
1967 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1968 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles in US (Billboard Song of the Year 1968,
Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)
1970 – The then-new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nationwide
1970 – The then-new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nationwide
Women's Strike for Equality.
1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
1978 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
1970 Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government
(North Ireland parliament)
1971 Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1971 NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975
1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history
1973 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973 University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing
1974 Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
1974 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1977 Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
1978 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1980 Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of American rock band Cheap Trick
1980 John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1981 Voyager 2 takes photos of Saturn's moon Titan
1981 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
1982 NASA launches Telesat-F satellite
1983 Floods destroy most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1985 French government denies knowledge of bombing of the Greenpeace flagship
the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland New Zealand
1986 Robert Chambers, the "Preppie Killer" murders Jennifer Levin in
New York City's Central Park, afterwards claimed "rough sex" as motive
1988 Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1990 2 murdered college students found in Gainesville, Florida
1992 "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 46 performances
1992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Louisiana as Category 3 storm
after causing deaths and severe damage in Florida
1993 Ernest Shonekan is appointed interim president of Nigeria by General Ibrahim Babangida
1996: A major shift in U.S. welfare policy occurs when President Bill Clinton
signs welfare reform into law.
1997 – Beni Ali massacre in Algeria where 60 to 100 people were killed.
1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan
1997 – Beni Ali massacre in Algeria where 60 to 100 people were killed.
1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan
by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
2005 US Postal Service christens a Los Angeles facility as "The Ray Charles Station"
2006 David Gilmour performs with his band and the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra
2005 US Postal Service christens a Los Angeles facility as "The Ray Charles Station"
2006 David Gilmour performs with his band and the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra
before a crowd of 50,000 at Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland
2007 The Rolling Stones close their two-year, 147 concert "A Bigger Bang" tour at O2 Arena
in London, England; box office gross of tour exceeds $558M, a record at the time
2008 Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway
republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia
2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives
certification from the EASA and the FAA.
2013 – Nationwide protests are held across the Philippines over the Priority Development
2012 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
2012 36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an, China
2012 Legionella outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104
2013 – Nationwide protests are held across the Philippines over the Priority Development
Assistance Fund scam.
2014 Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion
2013 All 25,000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination
2014 Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry informs the WHO of an Ebola outbreak;
later confirmed as a different strain to that affecting west Africa
2014 Israel and Hamas accept another ceasefire
2014 Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion
2015 WDBJ TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward are fatally shot
live on TV by an ex-colleague in Moneta, Virginia
2016 San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national
anthem at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium while playing against the San Diego
Chargers, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US
2017 Hurricane Harvey downgraded to a tropical storm, National Hurricane Center
warns of “multiday rainfall disaster”
2017 Violent clashes after conviction of spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
kill 31 in Panchkula, 120 admitted to hospital
2017 Half a million people take part in a peace march in Barcelona, following terrorist attacks
2018 Pope Francis asks for forgiveness in speech on child abuse in Dublin, during
first official visit to Ireland since 1979
2018 Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as President of Zimbabwe
2018 Danny Boyle pulls out of directing the next James Bond film due to 'creative differences'
2018 Gamer at a Madden NFL 19 gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida,
loses then returns to shoot two dead and wound nine
2018 Moroccan pop singer Saad Lamjarred arrested in Saint-Tropez, France
on a rape allegation
2018 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop resigns after losing Liberal Party
leadership contest
2018 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former US Vatican Ambassador, claims Pope Francis
knew of and ignored sex abuse allegations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
2019 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay state of Oklahoma $572 million in 1st trial
against opioid manufacturer
2019 Meeting of the G7 agrees on $20 million aid package to fight fires in the Amazon in Biarritz
2019 Leo DiCaprio's environmental organization Earth Alliance donates $5m
to fighting fires in the Amazon
2020 Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (29) is the youngest to win the
International Booker prize for their debut novel "The Discomfort of Evening"
2020 At least 100 people killed in flash floods in the city of Charikar, Afghanistan,
with 500 houses destroyed
2021 Two bomb blasts at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan, kill at least 60 people, including
12 US soldiers, amid international efforts to evacuate citizens out of the country
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome, Martyr
Contemporary Western
Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (Greek Church)
Alexander of Bergamo
Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá
David Lewis
Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages
Mariam Baouardy (Melkite Greek Catholic Church)
Melchizedek
Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus
Zephyrinus
Alexander of Bergamo
Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá
David Lewis
Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages
Mariam Baouardy (Melkite Greek Catholic Church)
Melchizedek
Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus
Zephyrinus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Martyrs Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia,[1] and 23 companions (306)
Martyrs Atticus and Sissinius, by the sword
Martyr Adrian, son of Roman Emperor Probus, at Nicomedia (320)
Saint Gelasius
Saint Maximus, Archbishop of Jerusalem (347)
Venerable Tithoes of the Thebaid (4th century),
disciple of St. Pachomius the Great
Monk Ioasaph, Prince of India (4th century)
Venerable Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic (c. 450)
Saint Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome from 199 to 217, who defended
Orthodox Christology against heresies (217)[13]
Martyrs Irenaeus and Abundius (258)
Saint Secundus, a soldier of the Theban Legion martyred
near Ventimiglia in Italy (3rd century)
Saint Alexander of Bergamo (c. 303)
Saint Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts (432)
Saint Rufinus, Bishop of Capua (5th century)
Saint Elias of Syracuse, a monk who became Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily (660)
Saint Felix of Pistoia, a holy hermit in Pistoia in Tuscany in Italy (9th century)
Saint Pandwyna (Pandionia), a holy virgin born in Ireland (c. 904)
Saint Victor (Vitores), a priest in Spain martyred by the Moors in the ninth or tenth century
Saint Zer-Jacob, missionary of Ethiopia
Saint Adrian of Uglich (after 1504), disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich
Saint Adrian of Ondrusov, founder of Ondrusov Monastery, Karelia (1549)
Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (16th century)
Saint Maria (Fedina) of Diveyevo, Fool-for-Christ (1931)
New Hieromartyr Peter Levlev, Priest (1918)
George Kossov of Orlov (1928)
New Hieromartyr Nectarius (Trezvinsky), Bishop of Yaransk (1937)
New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Victor Ellansky, Priest (1937)
New Martyrs Demetrius Morozov and Peter Bordan (1937)
Commemoration of the Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1395)
Icon of the Mother of God "Virgin of Tenderness" of the Pskov Caves (1524)
Finding of the relics (1748) of St. Bassian, Schemamonk of Alatyr Monastery (c. 1698)
Miraculous Self-Renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
in the hands of Righteous Abbess Rufina, in Harbin, Manchuria (1925)
Martyrs Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia,[1] and 23 companions (306)
Martyrs Atticus and Sissinius, by the sword
Martyr Adrian, son of Roman Emperor Probus, at Nicomedia (320)
Saint Gelasius
Saint Maximus, Archbishop of Jerusalem (347)
Venerable Tithoes of the Thebaid (4th century),
disciple of St. Pachomius the Great
Monk Ioasaph, Prince of India (4th century)
Venerable Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic (c. 450)
Saint Zephyrinus, Pope of Rome from 199 to 217, who defended
Orthodox Christology against heresies (217)[13]
Martyrs Irenaeus and Abundius (258)
Saint Secundus, a soldier of the Theban Legion martyred
near Ventimiglia in Italy (3rd century)
Saint Alexander of Bergamo (c. 303)
Saint Ninian, Apostle to the Southern Picts (432)
Saint Rufinus, Bishop of Capua (5th century)
Saint Elias of Syracuse, a monk who became Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily (660)
Saint Felix of Pistoia, a holy hermit in Pistoia in Tuscany in Italy (9th century)
Saint Pandwyna (Pandionia), a holy virgin born in Ireland (c. 904)
Saint Victor (Vitores), a priest in Spain martyred by the Moors in the ninth or tenth century
Saint Zer-Jacob, missionary of Ethiopia
Saint Adrian of Uglich (after 1504), disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich
Saint Adrian of Ondrusov, founder of Ondrusov Monastery, Karelia (1549)
Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (16th century)
Saint Maria (Fedina) of Diveyevo, Fool-for-Christ (1931)
New Hieromartyr Peter Levlev, Priest (1918)
George Kossov of Orlov (1928)
New Hieromartyr Nectarius (Trezvinsky), Bishop of Yaransk (1937)
New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Victor Ellansky, Priest (1937)
New Martyrs Demetrius Morozov and Peter Bordan (1937)
Commemoration of the Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1395)
Icon of the Mother of God "Virgin of Tenderness" of the Pskov Caves (1524)
Finding of the relics (1748) of St. Bassian, Schemamonk of Alatyr Monastery (c. 1698)
Miraculous Self-Renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
in the hands of Righteous Abbess Rufina, in Harbin, Manchuria (1925)
Coptic Orthodox
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