Anniversaries in History
August 26

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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 26

  • 150th: 1874 - Sixteen blacks are lynched in Tennessee.
  • 80th: 1944 - Romania declares war on Germany.
  • 70th: 1954 - Birth of Steve Wright; Britain's wacky DJ.
  • 60th: 1964 - Lyndon Johnson nominated for President at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  • 50th: 1974 - Charles Lindbergh dies at age 72 in his Hawaiian home.
  • 50th: 1974 - Soyuz 15 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.
  • 40th: 1984 - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad.
  • 40th: 1984 - Zdena Silvaha (Czechoslovakia) throws discus 74.55m (women's world record).
  • 25th: 1999 - Michael Johnson captures the 400m world record.

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