Saturday, August 26, 2017

History for August 26

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History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com
Lee Deforest 1873, Albert Sabin 1906, Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910
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 Ben Bradlee 1921 - Editor at Washington Post, Geraldine Ferraro 1935, Macaulay Culkin 1980 - Actor ("Home Alone")
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 55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.
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 1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta."
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 1847 - Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic.
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 1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.
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 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.
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 1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.
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 1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.
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 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.
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