History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com:
Albert Sabin 1906, Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910, Tom Ridge 1945 - First Director of the Office of Homeland Security 


Bob Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1949, Branford Marsalis 1960 - Jazz saxophonist, Macaulay Culkin 1980 - Actor ("Home Alone") 


55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar. 


1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta." 


1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten. 


1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth. 


1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany. 


1937 - All Chinese shipping was blockaded by Japan. 


1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II. 


1947 - Don Bankhead became the first black pitcher in major league baseball. 


1957 - It was announced that an intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested by the Soviet Union. 


1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.