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Events, deaths, births, of AUG 26 [For Aug 26 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1583~1699: Sep 05 1700s: Sep 06 1800s: Sep 07 1900~2099: Sep 08] |
On an 26 August:
2002 Gateway (GTW) introduces its new all-in-one Profile 4 computer, resembling the floating, flat-screen IMac of Apple (AAPL), with either a 15- or 17-inch flat-screen monitor connected to the computer's keyboard. Like the IMac, the Profile 4 offers various disk-drive options including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, and combination a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. Unlike the IMac, the Profile 4 runs on either Pentium 4 or Celeron high-speed processors, both produced by Intel (INTC). It also includes graphics delivered via chips made by Nvidia (NVDA). An entry-level Profile 4 will cost $999 compared to the $1299 starting point for the IMac.
1991 In an address to the Supreme Soviet, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised national elections in a last-ditch effort to preserve his government, but leaders of Soviet republics told him the hour of central power had passed. |
1985 The Yugo car, manufactured in Yugoslavia, is introduced to the
US market as a lower-cost alternative, it would quickly became infamous
for its poor quality of construction and be the butt of many jokes.
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1942 7000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France 1940 The LaSalle car, manufactured by Cadillac, is discontinued after fourteen years of production. Intended to boost profits during a lag in luxury car sales, the LaSalle was a moderately priced alternative to the opulence of the Cadillac. The company chose to market the car under a new name so as not to lessen the value of the Cadillac name.
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1863 Engagement at White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia 1863 Siege of Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina continues
1847 Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic.
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1498 In Rome, Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, 23 [06 March 1475 18 February 1564], is commissioned by Pope Alexander VI to carve the Pietà (or another photo, with details) Mary lamenting over the dead body of Jesus, whom she holds across her lap). The work was completed in 1501. 1429 Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris. 1017 Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manikert, Eastern Turkey. 55 B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain. |
Deaths which
occurred on an 26 August:
1981 Roger Nash Baldwin founder of the ACLU 1977 HA Rey, 78, author of popular constellation book 1977 Robert Schatten, mathematician |
1929 Bromwich, mathematician
1894 Celia (Laighton) Thaxter, author. THAXTER ONLINE: Idyls and Pastorals Poems for Children
1826 William Clark Tyler, author under the pseudonym Royall Tyler. TYLER ONLINE: The Contrast, The Contrast 1816 Robert Fagan, Irish artist, suicide. MORE ON FAGAN AT ART 4 AUGUST Anna Maria Ferri, the Artist's First Wife Portrait of a Lady 1789 Pierre-François Delaunay, French artist born on 21 December 1759. 1752 Jacques-François Courtin, French artist born in 1672. 1572 Peter Ramus, mathematician 1349 Bradwardine, mathematician
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Births which occurred on
a 26 August:
1935 Geraldine Ferraro (Rep-D-NY) 1st female major-party VP candidate in the US. 1933 Ben J. Wattenberg, author.
1906 Christopher Isherwood, English novelist and playwright, author of Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration for the play I am a Camera and the musical and film Cabaret. 1904 Christopher Isherwood England, novelist/playwright (I Am a Camera) 1901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff 1899 Krull, mathematician 1901 The New Testament of the American Standard Version Bible is first published. This US edition of the 1881 English Revised Version (ERV) comprised the first major American Bible translation since the King James Version of 1611. 1885 Louis Henri Jean FARIGOULE ps: Jules Romains France, novelist/dramatist/poet (Men of Good Will) 1884 Earl Derr Biggers author ("Charlie Chan" detective series) BIGGERS ONLINE: The Agony Column) 1882 Édouard-Léon Cortès, French artist who died in 1969. Notre~Dame 1880 Guillaume Apollinaire de Kostrowitsky, poet who in his 38-year life took part in all the avant-garde movements that flourished in French literary and artistic circles at the beginning of the 20th century and who helped to direct poetry into unexplored channels. 1875 Vitali, mathematician 1875 John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, Scotland, [photo >] writer and governor general of Canada, famous for The Thirty-Nine Steps,.which the perfect combination of fine writing and suspense-filled plot makes an engaging novel of intrigue, which was adapted to the screen by Hitchcock in 1935. Written in 1915, we follow protagonist Richard Hannay through England and the lowlands of Scotland as he eludes the police (after him for a murder he did not commit) and spies, and keeps Europe from war. Buchan died on 11 February 1940 BUCHAN ONLINE: Greenmantle Greenmantle — The Moon Endureth — The Moon Endureth Mr. Standfast Mr. Standfast — The Path of the King — The Power-House — Prester John — Prester John — The Thirty-Nine Steps The Thirty-Nine Steps The Thirty~Nine Steps
1867 Robert Russa Moton. MOTON ONLINE: Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography 1859 John William Mackail, editor of Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology 1850 Charles Richet French physiologist (anaphylaxisNobel 1913) 1848 Édouard Joseph Dantan, French artist who died on 7 July 1897. 1838 John Wilkes Booth (actor, assassin: shot and killed US President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC) 1824 Martha Darley Mutrie, British artist who died on 30 December 1885. 1791, Steamboat patented. John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat. Four years earlier, on August 22, 1787, Fitch demonstrated the first successful steamboat, launching a forty-five-foot craft on the Delaware River in the presence of delegates from the Constitutional Convention. He went on to build a larger steamboat which carried passengers and freight between Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey. Fitch was granted his patent after a battle with James Rumsey over claims to the invention. 1779 Henri Voordecker, Belgian artist who died in December 1861. 1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier Paris, the father of modern chemistry who defined the role of oxygen and named it. He would be guillotined on 19 floréal an II (08 May 1794) for being a fermier général who had (like all others) allegedly put into tobacco water and other substances harmful to the health of users. The tribunal commented La République n'a pas besoin de savants. Portrait of Lavoisier by David. 1740 Joseph Montgolfier France, aeronaut (ballooning) 1728 Johann H. Lambert, Switzerland, mathematician, the first to provide a rigorous proof that is irrational 1676 Sir Robert Walpole (Whig) British PM (1721-42) |