August, 26th

See also: Category: Holidays August 26

National

•   Republic of Abkhazia - Independence Day of the Republic of Abkhazia ^[2] .
•   Argentina - Day of Solidarity (in honor of the birthday of Mother Teresa ).
•   Malaysia - Independence Day.
•   Namibia - Heroes Day
•   Papua New Guinea - .
•   USA - Women's Equality Day
•   South Ossetia - Independence Day.

Professional

•   Argentina - Day of Argentinean actors ^[3] .
•   Iran - Workers' Day .
•   Turkey - Day of the Armed Forces of Turkey ^[4] .

  Religious

  Catholic Church

• Alexander Bergamsky , Holy Martyr

  Orthodoxy ^{[5] [6]}

• The celebration of the Transfiguration of the Lord ;
• the death (662), the transfer of the relics of the Monk Maximus the Confessor ;
• gaining the relics of Blessed Maxim , Christ for the sake of the holy fool, the Moscow miracle worker (c. 1547);
• the death (1783), the second acquisition of the relics (1991) of St. Tikhon , Bishop of Voronezh, Zadonsk miracle worker;
• memory of the martyrs Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Avundius and the martyrs of Concordia, in Rome (258);
• memory of the holy martyrs John Shishev, Joasaph Panov and Konstantin Popov, elders (1918);
• memory of the holy martyrs Seraphim (Zvezdinsky) , Bishop of Dmitrov, Nikolai Orlov, Jacob Arkhipov, presbyters and Alexy Vvedensky, deacon (1937);
• memory of the martyr Vasily Alexandrin (1942);
• Cathedral of the Valaam Saints (rolling celebration in 2018);
• Cathedral of the Kemerovo Saints (rolling celebration in 2018);
• Celebrations in honor of the icons of the Mother of God:
  • Minsk (1500);
  • Passionate (1641);
  • "Softening Evil Hearts" (Seven-shot) (1830).

Name Day ^[7]

Mens

• Avundiy - the martyr Avundiy of Rome;
• Alexy - Hieromartyr Alexy (Vvedensky) ;
• Basil - the martyr Basil (Alexandria) ;
• Jacob - Hieromartyr Jacob (Arkhipov) ;
• John - Hieromartyr John (Shishev) ;
• Joasaph - Hieromartyr Joasaph (Panov) ;
• Hippolytus - the martyr Hippolytus of Rome;
• Irenaeus - the martyr Irenaeus of Rome;
• Konstantin - Hieromartyr Konstantin (Popov) ;
• Maxim :
  • Rev. Maxim the Confessor (repose, transfer of relics);
  • Blessed Maxim of Moscow ;
• Nikolay - Hieromartyr Nikolay (Orlov, Nikolay Petrovich) ;
• Paramon - Rev. Paramon;
• Seraphim - Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinsky) , Bishop of Dmitrov;
• Serides - Rev. Serides;
• Tikhon - St. Tikhon of Zadonsky (Transfiguration, second gaining relics );

Women

• Evdokia - Evdokia of Constantinople ;
• Concordia - Roman Martyr Concordia;
• Xenia - Rev. Xenia .

See also: Category: August 26 events

Until the 18th century

• 55 BC e. - The first invasion of Julius Caesar in Britain .
• 1071 - Battle of Manzikert : victory of the Seljuk Turks over Byzantium .
• 1346 - Battle of Crescia : the English troops of King Edward III defeated the French army of King Philip VI . At the same time, the army of Edward III for the first time in Europe uses cannons tossing round cores .
• 1382 - Tokhtamysh captured Moscow .
• 1498 - 23-year-old Michelangelo received an order to create a sculptural group for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. "Drinking," or "Mourning for Christ."
• 1542 - Under the Nuremberg Treaty, Lorraine gained independence from Germany .
• 1545 - Pietro Farnese , son of Pope Paul III, founded the Duchy of Parma .
• 1641 - The West Indian company captured Luanda ( Angola ).

18th century

• 1723 - a complex of fountains was launched in Peterhof .
• 1728 - navigator Vitus Bering discovered the strait between Asia and America, called the Bering Strait .
• 1735 - the Russian army for the first time in history went to the Rhine .
• 1743 - the first rules in the world ^[8] of boxing competitions developed by British boxer Jack Broughton ^{[9] were} published in England.
• 1768 - the beginning of the first circumnavigation of the English navigator James Cook .
• 1770 - the first scientific article on potato, Notes on the Potato, appeared in Proceedings of the Free Economic Society . For the first time, the name “ potato ” was introduced into Russian by the agronomist AT Bolotov , who was the first in Russia to start growing crops in the garden (rather than flower beds), thereby initiating the mass distribution of the “second bread” in Russia. In 1840 , the Government took measures to introduce a culture of growing potatoes, which met strong resistance from the peasants (" potato riots " in 1842 ).
• 1778 - the first ascent of Mount Triglav , the highest mountain of Slovenia .
• 1789 - France adopted the Declaration of Human and Citizen Rights , a document laying the foundations of bourgeois law in Europe.
• 1791 - American John Fitch ( John Fitch ) patented the ship (20 years before Robert Fulton ), demonstrated four more years earlier.

XIX century

• 1801 - Philippe Lebon patented a two-stroke internal combustion engine .
• 1810 - the battle of Russian and Turkish troops in the area of ​​the village of Batin in Bulgaria, near the mouth of the Yantra River.
• 1813 - Battle of Katzbach .
• 1833 - Members of the John Ross expedition discovered on Baffin Island (Arctic Canada ) after three years living among local tribes.
• 1858 - The first news was sent by telegraph .
• 1866 - Shamil took the oath of allegiance to Russia .
• 1877 - victory at Shipka was won .
• 1883 - The strongest eruption of the volcano Krakatau in Indonesia covered an area of ​​over 800 thousand km² with ash and caused a tsunami , which killed about 36 thousand people on the islands of Java and Sumatra .
• 1884 - American Ottmar Mergenthaler ( Ottmar Mergenthaler ) patented the linotype .
• 1895 - A hydroelectric power station was opened at Niagara Falls .

XX century

• 1903 - paleontologist Otto Hauser discovers the perfectly preserved Cro-Magnon skeleton.
• 1907 - In the San Francisco water park, the chained and thrown into the water, the illusionist Harry Houdini surfaced after 57 seconds.
• 1914 - World War I : at the Battle of Tannenberg, the troops of the German Empire defeated Russian troops.
• 1918 - theaters were nationalized in Russia by the Bolsheviks .
• 1920 - The Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR ; in 1925 it was the Kazak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , in 1936 it was the Union Kazakh SSR , now it is an independent Republic of Kazakhstan .
• 1925 - Charles Henry states that with the help of an X-ray it was possible to photograph the "signs of the soul" of a person.
• 1927 - Vladimir Mayakovsky from Yalta reported by telegraph to Moscow the name of the poem "Good!"
• 1928 - May Donoghue drank ginger beer in a cafe in Paisley , Scotland , when she found a snail in a can. She filed a civil lawsuit against manufacturers, which grew into one of the most famous cases in the history of English Common Law , known as the Donoghue v. Stevenson case.
• 1939 - the government of Yugoslavia granted Croatia autonomy (see the Tsvetkovich-Macieck Agreement ).
• 1944 - World War II : Charles de Gaulle enters Paris .
• 1946 - The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted a resolution on the repertoire of drama theaters and measures for its improvement.
• 1947 - The US command in Italy lifted the ban on the wedding of American soldiers with Italian girls.
• 1952 - first introduced fluorination of tap water .
• 1957 - TASS reported the successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile .
• 1972 - The XX Summer Olympic Games opened in Munich . Sports overshadowed by terrorist act against Israeli athletes .
• 1973 - The University of Texas at Arlington became the first university to include a belly dance course in its program.
• 1976 - Raymond Barr becomes Prime Minister of France .
• 1978
  • Venetian Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected pope.
  • Sigmund Jena becomes the first East German astronaut aboard the Soyuz-31 spacecraft and generally the first German in space.
• 1980 - John Birges planted a bomb at Harvey's Resort, Nevada , USA .
• 1982 - In Argentina , a ban on the activities of political parties.
• 1991 - the fifth day after the coup . An extraordinary session of the USSR Parliament began. The activities of the CPSU throughout the country have been suspended. Arrested the former chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR Anatoly Lukyanov . Nikolai Kruchina, manager of the Central Committee of the CPSU Central Committee, threw himself from the balcony of his apartment.
• 1999 - Michael Johnson breaks the world record for 400 meters with a result of 43.18 seconds.

21st Century

• 2002
  • In the evening, the Georgian parliament decided on Georgia ’s withdrawal from the CIS and the complete withdrawal of military bases and peacekeeping forces from Georgian territory - this is how Georgian deputies reacted to the bombing of border areas.
  • In Johannesburg ( South Africa ) opened the Earth Summit .
• 2008 - after the extreme aggravation of Georgian-South Ossetian relations and the active participation of Russia in the hostilities that began on August 8, Russian President Dmitry A. Medvedev signed a decree recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia .
• 2009 - The highest mountain gas pipeline Dzuarikau-Tskhinval was launched.

See also: Category: Born on August 26

Until the 18th century

• 865 - Razes (d. 925 ), Persian alchemist, physician, and philosopher.

18th century

• 1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert (d. 1777 ), German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, author of the mathematical theory of cartographic projections.
• 1740 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier (d. 1810 ), French inventor, one of the creators of a balloon suitable for ballooning.
• 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier (d. 1794 ), French scientist, founder of modern chemistry.
• 1787 - Alexander Menshikov (d. 1869 ), His Serene Highness Prince, Adjutant General, Admiral, Minister of the Sea of ​​the Russian Empire (1836–1855), Governor General of Finland (1831–1854).
• 1789 - Abbas Mirza (d. 1833 ), Iranian statesman.

XIX century

• 1819 - Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (d. 1861 ), husband of the British Queen Victoria , the founder of the Windsor Dynasty .
• 1847 - Ippolit Pryanishnikov (d. 1921 ), Russian singer, director, entrepreneur.
• 1850 - Charles Richet (d. 1935 ), French physiologist, immunologist, Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine (1913).
• 1861 - Blessed Seferino (d. 1936 ), patron of gypsies in Catholicism .
• 1864 - Anna Elizarova-Ulyanova (d. 1935 ), Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and party leader, elder sister of V.I. Lenin .
• 1873 - Lee De Forest (d. 1961 ), American inventor, nicknamed the "father of radio", the creator of the triode ( audion ).
• 1875 - John Beacon (d. 1940 ), English writer and statesman.
• 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire (real name Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Alexander Apollinarius Vonzh-Kostrovitsky ; d. 1918 ), French poet of Italian-Polish descent.
• 1882 - James Frank (d. 1964 ), German physicist, Nobel laureate (1925, together with Gustav Hertz ).
• 1895 - Jerzy Kurilovic (d. 1978 ), Polish linguist.
• 1899 - Rufino Tamayo (d. 1991 ), Mexican artist of Zapotek origin.

XX century

• 1904 - Christopher Isherwood (d. 1986 ), English writer.
• 1906 - Albert Sabin (d. 1993 ), American doctor of Polish descent, microbiologist and virologist, creator of the live polio vaccine.
• 1910 - Mother Teresa (d. 1997 ), blessed (2003), a Catholic nun of Albanian origin, who lived in India, a humanitarian activist, founder of the Order of Mercy, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1979).
• 1913 - Alexander Chakovsky (d. 1994 ), writer, editor-in-chief of Literary Newspaper for 26 years.
• 1914 - Julio Cortazar (d. 1984 ), Argentinean writer and poet, representative of the direction of "magical realism."
• 1915 - Boris Safonov (died in 1942 ), Soviet pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1919 - Yuri Kuchiev (d. 2005 ), captain, the first to reach the North Pole , Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 1921 - Ivan Vorobyov (d. 1991 ), Soviet military pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1925 - Pyotr Todorovsky (d. 2013 ), Soviet and Russian film director, cameraman, screenwriter, actor, composer, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1929 - Eugene Fridman , Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
• 1933 - Grigory Bongard-Levin (d. 2008 ), Soviet and Russian Orientalist, Indologist , Academician.
• 1937 - Gennady Yanaev (d. 2010 ), Soviet party and statesman.
• 1938
  • Evgeny Golovin (d. 2010 ), Russian mystic writer, poet, translator, literary critic.
  • Vladimir Gubarev , Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, journalist.
  • Dalvin Shcherbakov , theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia.
  • Jet Black , British rock musician, drummer for The Stranglers .
• 1939 - Todor Kolev , Bulgarian actor.
• 1941 - Barbet Schroeder , French filmmaker.
• 1946 - Alexander Minkin , Russian journalist, columnist for Moskovsky Komsomolets and Novaya Gazeta .
• 1947
  • Alexander Kalyanov , Russian singer.
  • Yan Arlazorov (d. 2009 ), theater actor and entertainer, Honored Artist of Russia.
• 1948 - Magda Vashariova , Czechoslovakian theater and film actress.
• 1957 - Dr. Alban , Swedish pop singer of Nigerian descent.
• 1960 - Branford Marsalis , American jazz saxophonist.
• 1967 - Oleg Taktarov , Russian and American athlete, actor, television presenter, public figure.
• 1970 - Melissa McCarthy , American actress, screenwriter, producer.
• 1976
  • Zemfira , Russian singer, author and performer of her own songs.
  • Amaya Montero , Spanish singer.
• 1980 - Macaulay Culkin , American film actor.
• 1987 - Ksenia Sukhinova , model, Miss Russia 2007, Miss World 2008.
• 1989 - James Harden , American basketball player, Olympic champion ( 2012 ), world champion ( 2014 ).

See also: Category: August 26 deaths

Until the 19th century

• 1399 - Mikhail Alexandrovich (b. 1333 ), Grand Duke of Tver.
• 1486 - Ernst (b. 1441 ), Elector of Saxony (from 1464), eldest son of Elector Frederick II Krotsky .
• 1706 - Michael Wilmann (b. 1630 ), German baroque painter.
• 1723 - Anthony van Levenguk , (b. 1632 ) Dutch naturalist.
• 1795 - Alessandro Cagliostro (b. 1743 ), Italian count, astrologer, adventurer.

XIX century

• 1816 - Charles Hubert Millvois (b. 1782 ), French poet.
• 1850 - Louis Philippe I (b. 1773 ), king of France ( 1830 - 1848 ).
• 1867 - Friedrich Gustav Klemm (b. 1802 ), German historian, ethnographer and anthropologist.
• 1884 - Antonio Gutierrez (b. 1813 ), a Spanish writer whose work became the basis of J. Verdi's opera Troubadour .
• 1895 - Johann Friedrich Mischer (b. 1844 ), a Swiss scientist who discovered nucleic acids - DNA and RNA .

XX century

• 1910 - William James (b. 1842 ), American philosopher and psychologist.
• 1915 - Daniel Varuzhan (born 1884 ), Armenian poet, is killed.
• 1921 - Nikolai Gumilev (b. 1886 ), Russian writer, translator and literary critic.
• 1930 - Lon Cheney (b. 1883 ), American film actor.
• 1933
  • Nikolai Ashmarin (b. 1870 ), Russian linguist.
  • Sofia Parnock (b. 1885 ), Russian poetess, translator, literary critic.
• 1935 - (born 1873 ), pioneer of the American automobile industry.
• 1938 - Sophia Sokolovskaya (born 1894 ), a Russian revolutionary, underground worker, director of Mosfilm, was shot.
• 1950 - Cesare Pavese (b. 1908 ), Italian writer and translator.
• 1958 - Georgy Ivanov (b. 1894 ), Russian poet, prose writer, publicist and translator, emigrant.
• 1961 - Hampe Faustman (b. 1919 ), Swedish actor and director.
• 1962 - Serafim Anikeev (b. 1904 ), operetta artist, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1964 - Nikolai Valentinov (b. 1879 ), philosopher, publicist and memoirist.
• 1972 - b (born 1901 ), an Englishman who committed in 1966-1967. first round-the-world trip on a single yacht.
• 1973 - Jacques Lipschitz (b. 1891 ), French and American sculptor of Jewish origin.
• 1974 - Charles Lindbergh (b. 1902 ), an American pilot who became the first to fly the Atlantic Ocean alone.
• 1976
  • Ivan Aleksenko (b. 1904 ), Soviet tank designer.
  • Yuri Smolich (b. 1900 ), Ukrainian writer.
• 1979 - Mika Toymi Valtari (b. 1908 ), Finnish writer.
• 1980 - (born 1920 ), American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist.
• 1982 - Anna German (b. 1936 ), Soviet singer of Polish descent.
• 1987 - Georg Wittig (b. 1897 ), German organic chemist, Nobel laureate (1979).
• 1989 - Irving Stone (b. 1903 ), American writer.
• 1994
  • Werner Klemke (b. 1917 ), German artist, master of book and magazine graphics.
  • Vladimir Burich (b. 1932 ), Russian Soviet poet, translator.
• 1995 - John Branner (b. 1934 ), English science fiction writer.
• 1998 - Frederick Raines (b. 1918 ), American physicist, Nobel laureate (1995).

21st Century

• 2001 - Gleb Maximov (b. 1926 ), design engineer, one of the creators of the first artificial Earth satellite.
• 2004 - Laura Branigen (b. 1952 ), American pop singer.
• 2013 - Arlen Kashkurevich (b. 1929 ), graphic artist, national artist of Belarus.
• 2017 - Toub Hooper (b. 1943 ), American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer.

Tikhon-passionate. Maxim the Confessor. Spasovsky grandfathers. The end of the Transfiguration holiday.

• On this day, they cleaned the sheds and cellars so that autumn rot did not take root in the winter storages.
• If mushroom and bread-making ^[10] .
• Rooks arrange test flights.
• The winds blow quietly - to the bucket, and the storm sweeps - to be rainy September.