August 26 in History
On August 26,- 1789: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the Constituent Assembly at Versailles.
- 1838: American author Ralph Waldo Emerson met British writer Thomas Carlyle, beginning a friendship that would last for thirty-eight years.
- 1858: The first news dispatch by telegraph was sent.
- 1862: The Second Bull Run campaign began when the Confederate cavalry captured the rail center at Manassas Junction.
- 1920: The 19th Amendment was formally adopted into the Constitution by then Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
- 1944: French General Charles de Gaulle entered a free Paris, which had been liberated the previous day.
- 1957: The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that could be fired into any part of the world. Thirty years of fear and loathing would follow.
- 1964: Lyndon Johnson received the Democratic nomination for President.
- 1970: Musician Jimi Hendrix opened the Electric Lady recording studio in New York.
- 1980: A one thousand pound bomb was discovered in a Nevada casino. After violating the conditions of the ransom demand, the FBI attempted unsuccessfully to disarm the explosive. The casino was destroyed in the explosion.
Sources: The History Channel, Wikipedia
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