Friday, August 26, 2022

History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com
Albert Sabin 1906
  • 1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta."
  • 1847 - Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.

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