History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com
Lee Deforest 1873, Albert Sabin 1906, Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910


Jim Davis 1915, Ben Bradlee 1921 - Editor at Washington Post, 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.


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


1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.


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