Historical Events In August - 26
Saturday, 06 March 2021
1860 Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1863 Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs) on August - 26.
1863 John Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies on this day in history.
1865 On August - 26 johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73
1869 Henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54 on August - 26.
1870 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7] on August - 26.
1873 On this day in history the first US public kindergarten is authorized in St. Louis, MO.
1873 On August - 26 1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
1873 On August - 26 lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
1873 On this day in history carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57
1874 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee on August - 26.
1875 On this day in history the birth of John Buchan, Scottish author
1875 John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme) on August - 26.
1880 Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola) on this day in history.
1882 On August - 26 james Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)
1883 On August - 26 krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1883 The Indonesian island of Krakatoa explodes, spewing volcanic ash and debris 50 miles into the air and killing 36,000 people many from tidal waves over 100 feet high on August - 26.
1883 On August - 26 -27] Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1884 Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series) on this day in history.
1885 Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will) on this day in history.
1887 Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer on this day in history.
1890 On August - 26 tommy Andrews, cricketer (NSW & Aussie player of the 1920's)
1891 Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author on August - 26.
1894 Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms on August - 26.
1894 On this day in history pPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
1895 Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam on August - 26.
1896 On this day in history armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
1896 On this day in history richard Hammond, composer
1898 On this day in history peggy Guggenheim, art patron & collector
1899 On this day in history rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
1901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff on August - 26.
1903 On August - 26 phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
1903 On this day in history jimmy Rushing, US blues singer
1904 Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin) on this day in history.
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