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| August 26th |
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| About August 26th is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. August 26th is Women's Equality Day in the United States. Births 1873 - Lee De Forest, inventor (Audion tube) 1874 - Zona Gale, author, playwright (Miss Lulu Bett) 1906 - Albert Sabin, medical researcher (developed polio vaccine) 1909 - Jim Davis, actor (Dallas) 1910 - Mother Teresa, Catholic nun, humanitarian 1920 - Brant Parker, cartoonist, co-creator of The Wizard of Id 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Representative, Vice Presidential candidate 1945 - Tom Ridge, first U.S. Homeland Security 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, actor (Home Alone) 1980 - Chris Pine, actor (Star Trek) 1986 - Cassie, singer, model, dancer 1988 - Danielle Savre, actress, singer, dancer Deaths 1937 - Andrew Mellon, banker, philanthropist, Treasury Secretary 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator, author, inventor 1978 - Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight) Events 1791 - Rival inventors John Fitch and James Rumsey both receive patents for the steamboat. 1817 - The University of Michigan is founded. 1873 - The St. Louis board of education establishes the first public school kindergarten in the United States. 1939 - The first televised Major League Baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1968 - Large anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur on the streets of Chicago, Illinois where the Democratic National Convention is being held. |
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