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What happened in history on this day: August 26?
On August 26 in ...
- 1791 - John Fitch is granted US patent for his working steamboat.
- 1874 - Sixteen blacks are lynched in Tennessee.
- 1920 - US Constitution 19th Amendment passes - women's suffrage granted.
- 1964 - Lyndon Johnson nominated for President at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- 1990 - Two slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida.
- 2018 - An Esports tournament is held in Jacksonville, Florida, a qualifying round for EA's Madden 19 Classic. A competitor is eliminated, then pulls out a handgun and starts shooting, killing three, including himself.
- 2020 - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos becomes the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding US$200 billion, according to Forbes.
- 2021 - At least 182 people are killed, including 13 U.S. service members, in a suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
Births on August 26
- 1873 - Birth of Lee De Forest in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA; inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube).
- 1909 - Birth of Frank Gasparro in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; US Mint Chief Engraver (1965-81).
- 1915 - Birth of Jim Davis in Edgerton, Missouri, USA; actor (Jack Ewing - Dallas).
- 1917 - Birth of Jan Clayton in Tularosa, New Mexico, USA; actress (Ellen Miller - Lassie).
- 1917 - Birth of William French Smith in Wilton, New Hampshire, USA; US Attorney General (1981-85).
- 1919 - Birth of Ronny Graham in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico and the Man).
- 1932 - Birth of Joe H Engle in Abilene, Kansas, USA; Brigadier General US Air Force/astronaut (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I).
- 1938 - Birth of Francine York in Aurora, Minnesota, USA; actress (Slattery's People).
- 1942 - Birth of John E Blaha in San Antonio, Texas, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (STS 29, 33, STS 43).
- 1942 - Birth of Vic Dana in Buffalo, New York, USA; singer/dancer (Talent Scouts).
- 1947 - Birth of Candy Moore in Maplewood, New Jersey, USA; actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy and Champ).
- 1948 - Birth of Valerie Simpson in the Bronx, New York, USA; singer, Ashford's partner ("Like a Rock").
- 1980 - Birth of Macaulay Culkin; American actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Kings, Wish Kid).
Deaths on August 26
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh dies at age 72 in his Hawaiian home.
- 1976 - Death of Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara, California (born in Perleberg, Germany); German/Austrian/American opera singer.
- 1979 - Death of Alvin Karpis, last of America's depression-era criminals (born 1907).
- 1980 - Death of Tex Avery, American cartoonist and creator of Looney Toons (born 1908).
- 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, dies.
- 1986 - Jennifer Levin strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park, New York.
- 1998 - Death of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918).
- 2023 - Death of Bob Barker at age 99 at home in Los Angeles, California; radio announcer, TV show host (Truth of Consequences, The Price is Right (1972-2007, over 6500 episodes, 18 Daytime Emmy awards)).
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