August 26th 2014 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P.

1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 – Hundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1444 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.
1466 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
1810 – The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
1814 – Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
1821 – The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is officially opened.
1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
1914 – In Brazil, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is founded.
1914 – World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1940 – Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1966 – The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
1970 – The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality.
1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1978 – Papal conclave: Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, US.
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA

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Today's Canadian Headline....

1925 TED ROGERS SR. INVENTS AC TUBE
Toronto Ontario - Edward S. Rogers Sr. invents the alternating-current tube, allowing plug-in batteryless radios. The call letters of his new radio station, CFRB, stand for 'Rogers Batteryless'.

1968
Appledore England - Hudson's Bay Company launches replica ketch Nonsuch II to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the HBC.




In Other Events....

1992 Montreal Quebec - CN North America signs freight deal with Burlington Northern and Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico; single North American system; linked customs services and common equipment.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to extend full diplomatic recognition to the Baltic republics of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania; never recognized legitimacy of 1940 annexation by Stalin, but did not maintain diplomatic ties.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Fire guts the Canadian National Exhibition's 80 year old Music Building.
1982 Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA launches Canada's Anik-D1 communications satellite (mass 730 kg) aboard a Delta rocket.
1981 Vancouver BC - Vancouver transit workers end five-week strike.
1978 Ontario - First Canada Jam Festival opens; with the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason, Atlanta Rhythm Section.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government adopts Bill 101 (La Charte de la langue française); French becomes the official language of Quebec; children whose mother or father went to English school eligible for English schooling; less stringent than Bill One.
1972 Munich Germany - Canadian athletes join 121 other nations and a total of 7,156 competitors at the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Munich; to Sept. 10.
1970 Cowes England - Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell performs at Isle of Wight Pop Festival; she bursts into tears when a spectator jumps on the stage, grabs her microphone and shouts, 'This is just a hippie concentration camp.'
1966 Canada - Canada's 118,000 railway workers go on strike; close down telecommunications, air express; all but first-class mail and ferry service to PEI.
1962 Hanover, New Hampshire - Vihjalmur Stefansson dies at age 82; born in Arnes, Manitoba Nov 3, 1879 to Icelanders who moved to North Dakota in 1880. An arctic explorer, ethnologist, lecturer and writer, Stefansson was educated at the universities of Iowa, North Dakota and Harvard; made three trips to the Arctic from 1906 to 1918, and covered over 32,000 sq km of territory. From 1913-18 he led the Canadian Arctic Expedition, which discovered Lougheed, Borden, Meighen and Brock islands, while drifting on ice floes. His unauthorized Wrangel expedition, designed to claim an island north of Siberia for Canada, ended with the tragic death of four, including a young Canadian student, and caused an international incident.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Amateur Hockey Association approves Father David Bauer's proposal to build a Canadian Olympic Hockey team, instead of sending club teams off to represent Canada; in 1965 a permanent national team for Canada was established.
1961 Toronto Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens the International Hockey Hall of Fame at the CNE; announces $5 million annual grant for amateur sports in Canada.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau decides to run for Mayor of Montreal; a social worker.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) to regulate broadcasting in Canada, independent of the CBC; later becomes the CRTC, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
1957 Toronto Ontario - Joseph Burr Tyrrell dies; geologist, explorer, historian, born at Weston, Ontario August 26, 1957. Tyrrell worked for the Geological Survey of Canada from 1881 to 1898, collecting and consolidating information on the natural history and mineral resources of many remote regions. He crossed the barrens, exploring the Dubawnt and Thelon Rivers as far as Chesterfield Inlet, and in 1884 he discovered the rich dinosaur beds of the Badlands of southern Alberta, as well as coal beds at Drumheller, Alberta, and Fernie, BC. After retiring from the government, he worked as a mining consultant, and developed properties in the Klondike and northern Ontario. The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology near Drumheller, founded in 1985, is named in his memory.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian railways adopt the Uniform Code of Operating Rules for train operation purposes.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sends personal peace appeals to Hitler, Mussolini and President of Poland.
1938 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Maroons hockey team dropped from the NHL due to financial troubles.
1919 Toronto Ontario - American pilot Rudolph Schroeder wins the CNE's Great Toronto-New York-Toronto Air Race, sponsored by the Canadian National Exhibition.
1918 France - General Arthur Currie 1875-1933 leads Canadian Corps in successful attack on the Hindenburg Line; penetrates German defenses; until September 2.
1907 Toronto Ontario - Toronto financier Cawthra Mulock opens his Royal Alexandra Theatre on King Street West; with the musical Top of the World, written by Mark Swain; theatre bought and refurbished by retailer 'Honest Ed' Mirvish in 1963.
1891 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba and the Northwest Territories provided with their first published weather forecasts.
1887 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys the Montreal Herald newspaper building.
1884 Montreal Quebec - British Army start recruiting Canadian voyageurs and boatmen to serve in Wolseley's Nile Expedition to rescue Kitchener at Khartoum.
1881 Winnipeg Manitoba - First CPR train steams into Winnipeg over the Red River Bridge.
1876 Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan - Cree, Saulteaux and Chipewyan of present-day central Alberta and Saskatchewan sign Treaty #6; to get schooling, as well as farm implements, seeds, farm animals and instruction in agricultural techniques; famine relief when necessary and medicine when needed; also adherents to 1899 treaty; total 194,725 sq km set aside for reserves.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald wires J.J.C. Abbott 'I must have another ten thousand'; stolen telegram later provided the opposition with proof that Macdonald had accepted money in return for his support in Parliament of the Hugh Allan group bidding for the CPR contact.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Governor Lord Gosford dissolves the fourth session of fifteenth Assembly of Lower Canada; meeting since Aug. 18; had refused to pass budget subsidies.
1856 Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 establishes the Allan Line with four ships - Canadian, North American, Indian and Anglo Saxon; subsidized with mail contract.
1834 Kingston Ontario - John A. Macdonald starts practicing law in Kingston.
1833 Baffin Island, NWT - Captain James Ross and his shipwrecked crew of 19 are rescued off Baffin Island by his flagship, the whaler Isabella; Ross and crew survived four winters with the help of the Inuit before abandoning Victory to the ice, and setting off, in shipwrecked boats they had found and repaired, through a lane of water that opened up leading northward.
1784 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island separated from Nova Scotia; becomes its own colony, with Lieutenant-Governor and council.
1758 Kingston Ontario - John Bradstreet 1714-1774 sets up a battery within point blank range of the walls of Fort Frontenac and starts firing. Commandant Pierre de Noyan will capitulate a day later.
1748 Quebec Quebec - François Bigot arrives at Quebec to serve as the new Intendant.
1634 Quebec Quebec - Huron Indians supply wild plums to the Jesuits.
1613 St-Malo France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives in St-Malo from Tadoussac; will try and get further support for his voyages.
1576 Baffin Island NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 crew member finds what may be lump of gold; turns out to be fool's gold - iron pyrite.

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