Page 3: Historical Events In August - 26

1860  Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1863  On August - 26 battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)   

1863  John Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies on August - 26.   

1865  On this day in history johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73   

1869  On this day in history henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54   

1870  Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7] on this day in history.   

1873  On August - 26 the first US public kindergarten is authorized in St. Louis, MO.   

1873  1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri on August - 26.   

1873  Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube) on this day in history.   

1873  Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57 on August - 26.   

1874  On August - 26 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee   

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 August - 26.   

1882  On August - 26 james Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)   

1883  On August - 26 krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000   

1883  On August - 26 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.   

1883  On August - 26 -27] Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000   

1884  On this day in history earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)   

1885  Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will) on August - 26.   

1887  On August - 26 luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer   

1890  On this day in history tommy Andrews, cricketer (NSW & Aussie player of the 1920's)   

1891  On August - 26 emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author   

1894  On August - 26 social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms   

1894  PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok on August - 26.   

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 August - 26 richard Hammond, composer   

1898  On this day in history peggy Guggenheim, art patron & collector   

1899  Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter on August - 26.   

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 August - 26 jimmy Rushing, US blues singer   

1904  Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin) on August - 26.   

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1469  Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496) was born on August - 26.   

1540  On this day in history birth of king Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)   

1596  On August - 26 birth of frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)   

1627  On August - 26 birth of thomas Bullis, composer   

1676  On August - 26 birth of robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42) [NS=Sept 5]   

1687  Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph) was born on August - 26.   

1694  On August - 26 birth of elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)   

1726  Karl Kohaut, composer was born on this day in history.   

1278  Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle on this day in history.   

1346  Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1349  Death of Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.   

1368  On August - 26 engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies   

1486  Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1518  On this day in history death of giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara   

1551  Death of Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516) on August - 26.   

1572  Death of Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515) on August - 26.