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August 26: Women's Equality Day: -- A
secular holiday celebrated in the United States on August 26 to
commemorate the day in 1920 when Secretary Of State Bainbridge
Colby signed the proclamation of the Nineteenth Amendment
(Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, which prohibits
the states and the federal government from denying the right to
vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. In
1971, following the 1970 nationwide Women's Strike for Equality,
and again in 1973, as the battles over the Equal Rights Amendment
continued, Congresswoman Bella Abzug of New York introduced a
resolution to designate August 26 as Women's Equality Day. On
August 16, 1973, Congress approved H.J. Res. 52, which stated that
August 26 would be designated as Women's Equality Day and that
"the President is authorized and requested to issue a
proclamation in commemoration of that day in 1920 on which the
women in American were first guaranteed the right to vote".
The same day, President Richard Nixon issued Proclamation 4236 for
Women's Equality Day, which began: "The struggle for women's
suffrage, however, was only the first step toward full and equal
participation of women in our Nation's life. In recent years, we
have made other giant strides by attacking sex discrimination
through our laws and by paving new avenues to equal economic
opportunity for women. Today, in virtually every sector of our
society, women are making important contributions to the quality
of American life. And yet, much still remains to be done". As
of 2018, every president since Richard Nixon has issued a
proclamation designating August 26 as Women's Equality Day. On
August 25, 2016, President Obama's Proclamation read: "Today,
as we celebrate the anniversary of this hard-won achievement and
pay tribute to the trailblazers and suffragists who moved us
closer to a more just and prosperous future, we resolve to protect
this constitutional right and pledge to continue fighting for
equality for women and girls". The 19th amendment to the U.S.
constitution was approved by the U.S. Congress on June 4, 1919,
and it was sent to the U.S. states for ratification. It was
adopted by states' ratification on August 18, 1920. The amendment
was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United
States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve
the vote. It effectively overruled Minor v. Happersett (1875), in
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August 26: National Dog Day: -- Get ready
to celebrate all our furry friends in the best ways possible! Can
you believe that our furry friends have been with us for at least
14,000 years? Thank goodness for that because what would we do
without man's best friend? It is time to pull out all the cake and
pictures of your pup and share your love for them with the world!
National Dog Day was first established in 2004 by pet & family
lifestyle advocate Colleen Paige. The aim of promoting this day is
to raise awareness about adopting these animals who are currently
in rescue centers. In addition, on this day promote dog ownership
of all breeds, pure and mix. Embrace National Dog Day as an
opportunity for all dogs to live a safe, happy and abuse-free
life. Dogs are a man's best friend for a reason, so why not
celebrate them? These furry friends range in all different shapes,
sizes, and breeds. There is a dog out there for everyone! Whether
you like big dogs or small dogs, every pup should be celebrated on
National Dog Day. This holiday was created in 2004 by Colleen
Paige, a Pet & Family Lifestyle Expert and Animal Advocate.
She created this day so that all dogs can be celebrated and also
to draw attention to the number of dogs in shelters and to
encourage adoption to those who have yet to find a place to call
home. August 26 is significant to Colleen because it is the day
her family adopted her Sheltie when she was 10 years old. Since
the first celebration in 2004, National Dog Day has grown and is
now celebrated across the world. In 2013 the holiday was written
into New York legislation and can be seen on the New York State
Senate's website. To spread the word further, those that oversee
the holiday have joined forces with many rescue partners,
including The Human Society of The United States and West Coast
Labrador Retriever Rescue. Together they draw attention to the
number of dogs that are without a home and try to actively
encourage people searching for a dog to visit an adoption shelter
instead of a pet store. Since the first day back in 2004, it is
estimated that approximately one million dogs have been saved
through adoption in the U.S. For dog owners that aren't looking to
add to their family, National Dog Day has become a day for
treating their friend like the legend they are and enjoying the
connection that we've built up with dogs over thousands of years.
Colleen Paige, the founder of the holiday, also uses the day to
draw attention to the multiple ways in which dogs contribute
towards our society. From putting their lives on the line to help
law enforcement track down bombs or drug dealers to providing
assistance for those who need it, dogs play an important role.
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August 26: -- National Toilet Paper Day:
This essential item is used most by Americans followed by other
countries across the globe. One of the times we realize the
importance of this often-overlooked item is when we enter a public
restroom and realize there is no toilet paper. Not long ago,
toilet paper used to come in multiple colors. Now, many more
countries are also using toilet paper along with a bidet. We don't
know yet who created National Toilet Paper Day but they surely
deserve a shout-out for dedicating a day to honoring this humble
yet important invention that is on the shopping list for many a
trip to the supermarket. Before the advent of toilet paper, from
at least 79 A.D. until the fall of the Roman empire, the Romans
cleaned themselves with a tersorium (a type of sponge) after
relieving themselves. It was made of a sea sponge on a stick and
they would simply rinse it off and leave it for the next person.
It wasn't until 1857 that toilet paper began being sold in the
United States of America. The first toilet paper was loose flat
sheets of paper. Then in 1930, the Germans invented the perforated
rolls we have today consisting of 1,000 small sheets that were
separated by a perforation. In the 1960s, toilet paper came in
different colors, especially in pink and green to match the
bathroom hues. In the early 2000s, colored toilet paper rolls
started to exit the market but they can still be found in some
parts of the world. Americans love their toilet paper though and
use it the most out of any other country. Though this can also be
attributed to the fact that some countries prefer using a bidet
over toilet paper to clean up. Toilet paper has even made its mark
in several television series and movies. It is often used for
decoration during Halloween or when people play a prank on others
by covering houses or cars in it. This simple invention has a
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August 26, 1346: The Crisis Of The Late
Middle Ages (c. 1315 - c. 1487): The Anglo-French Wars
(1109-1815): The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre De Cent Ans
[1337-1453]): The Crecy Campaign (July 26, 1346 - August 3, 1347):
The Battle Of Crecy: -- The military supremacy of the English
longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured
knights is established at The Battle Of Crecy, also spelled
Cressy. Emboldened by the lessons of tactical flexibility and
utilisation of terrain learned from the earlier Saxons, Vikings,
Muslims and the recent battles with the Scots, the English victory
heralded the rise of the longbow as the dominant weapon on the
Western European battlefield, and helped to continue the rise of
the infantryman in medieval warfare. Crecy also saw the use of the
ribauldequin, an early cannon, by the English army. The heavy
casualties taken by the French knightly class at the hands of
peasants wielding ranged weapons was indicative of the decline of
chivalry, and the emergence of a more practical, pragmatic
approach to conducting warfare. The Battle Of Crecy was the first
of three famous English successes during the Edwardian phase of
the conflict (The Edwardian War), followed by Poitiers in 1356 and
Agincourt in 1415. The battle was fought near Crecy, in northern
France. An army of English, Welsh, and allied mercenary troops led
by Edward III of England, engaged and defeated a much larger army
of French, Genoese and Majorcan troops led by Philip VI of France.
The battle crippled the French army's ability to come to the aid
of Calais, which fell to the English the following year. Calais
would remain under English rule for over two centuries, falling in
1558. The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from
1337 to 1453 by the House Of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of
England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to
rule the Kingdom of France. Each side drew many allies into the
war. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Ages,
in which five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought
for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe. The war
marked both the height of chivalry and its subsequent decline, and
the development of strong national identities in both countries.
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Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The National
Constituent Assembly: The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of
The Citizen (French: Declaration Des Droits De l'Homme Et Du
Citoyen De 1789): -- The National Constituent Assembly of France
approves The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of The Citizen
Of 1789 (French: Declaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen
de 1789), a human civil rights document drafted by General Gilbert
du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, famed general of The American
Revolutionary War; Thomas Jefferson, who was the United States
Minister to France at that time; and Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Count
of Mirabeau. Inspired by the United States Declaration Of
Independence and influenced by the doctrine of "natural
right" (natural law) to establish basic principles of the
democratic nation-state, the rights of man are held to be
universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to
human nature itself. In keeping with the philosophy of natural
liberty, Lafayette also advocated for the end of slavery. It
became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected
equally by the law. It is included in the beginning of the
constitutions of both the Fourth French Republic (1946) and Fifth
Republic (1958) and is still current. Inspired by the
Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement
of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on
the development of freedom and democracy in Europe and worldwide.
The Declaration, together with Magna Carta, the English Bill Of
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August 26, 1944: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: The Liberation
Of France: Operation Overlord (The Battle Of Normandy, The
Normandy Campaign): D-Day (The D-Day Landings, The Normandy
Landings): The Liberation Of Paris (French: Liberation De Paris)
(The Battle For Paris And Belgium): Charles De Gaulle Enters
Paris: -- Liberation of the French capital was not high on the
Allies' list of priorities as it had comparatively little
strategic value, but both de Gaulle and the commander of the
French 2nd Armored Division, General Philippe Leclerc were still
extremely concerned about a communist takeover. De Gaulle
successfully lobbied for Paris to be made a priority for
liberation on humanitarian grounds and obtained from Allied
Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower an agreement that
French troops would be allowed to enter the capital first. A few
days later, elements of General Leclerc's 2nd French Armored
Division, a mechanized infantry unit composed primarily of exiled
Spanish republicans, entered the outskirts of the city, and after
six days of fighting in which the resistance played a major part,
the German garrison of 5000 men surrendered on 25 August, although
some sporadic outbreaks of fighting continued for several days.
General Dietrich von Choltitz, the commander of the garrison, was
instructed by Hitler to raze the city to the ground, however, he
simply ignored the order and surrendered his forces. As de
Gaulle's procession came along the Place de la Concorde on
Saturday 26 August, it came under machine gun fire by Vichy
militia and fifth columnists who were unable to give themselves
up. Later, on entering the Notre Dame Cathedral to be received as
head of the provisional government by the Committee of Liberation,
loud shots broke out again, and Leclerc and Koenig tried to hustle
him through the door, but de Gaulle shook off their hands and
never faltered. While the battle began outside, he walked slowly
down the aisle. Before he had gone far a machine pistol fired down
from above, at least two more joined in, and from below the FFI
and police fired back. Time magazine wrote in its September 4,
1944 edition that a BBC correspondent who was present reported
"...the General is being presented to the people. He is being
received...they have opened fire! ...firing started all over the
place ...that was one of the most dramatic scenes I have ever
seen. ...General de Gaulle walked straight ahead into what
appeared to me to be a hail of fire ...but he went straight ahead
without hesitation, his shoulders flung back, and walked right
down the centre aisle, even while the bullets were pouring about
him. It was the most extraordinary example of courage I have ever
seen ...there were bangs, flashes all about him, yet he seemed to
have an absolutely charmed life. Later, in the great hall of the
Hotel de Ville, de Gaulle was greeted by a jubilant crowd and,
proclaiming the continuity of the Third Republic, delivered a
famous proclamation: "Paris! Paris outraged, Paris broken,
Paris martyred, but Paris liberated! Liberated by itself,
liberated by its people with the assistance of the armies of
France, with the support and assistance of the whole of France!
...The enemy is faltering but he is not yet beaten. He is still on
our soil. It will not suffice that we, with the assistance of our
dear and admirable allies, will have chased him from our home in
order to be satisfied after what has happened. We want to enter
his territory, as is fitting, as conquerors. ...It is for this
revenge, this vengeance and this justice, that we will continue to
fight until the last day, until the day of the total and complete
victory." That evening, the Wehrmacht launched a massive
aerial and artillery barrage of Paris in revenge, leaving several
thousand dead or injured. The situation in Paris remained tense,
and a few days later de Gaulle, still unsure of the trend of
events asked General Eisenhower to send some American troops into
Paris as a show of strength. This he did 'not without some
satisfaction', and so, on 29 August, the US 28th Infantry Division
was rerouted from its journey to the front line and paraded down
the Champs Elysees. The same day, Washington and London agreed to
accept the position of the Free French. The following day General
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August 26, 1968: Elections: Elections In
The United States: The 1968 United States Presidential Election:
The 1968 United States Democratic National Convention: -- The
Democratic Party begins its quadrennial National Convention at the
International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois to select a new
presidential nominee in the aftermath of the announcement by
incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson that he would not
seek reelection. The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held
from August 26 to August 29, 1968. The keynote speaker was Senator
Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and
Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine were nominated for president and
vice president, respectively. The most contentious issues of the
convention were the continuing American military involvement in
the Vietnam War and voting reform, particularly expanding the
right to vote for draft-age soldiers (age 18) who were unable to
vote as the voting age was 21. The convention also marked a
turning point where previously idle groups such as youth and
minorities became more involved in politics and voting. The
convention of 1968 was held during a year of riots, political
turbulence, and mass civil unrest. The assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr. in April of that year inflamed racial tensions to
an unprecedented level. King assassination riots in more than 100
cities followed and marked the end of the civil rights movement.
The convention also followed the assassination of Robert F.
Kennedy on June 5. Kennedy's assassination derailed the
convention, paving the way for Humphrey. Both Kennedy and Senator
Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota had been running for the Democratic
nomination at the time. On August 28, 1968, Hubert Humphrey won
the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. The
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August 26, 1743: #BOTD: #HBD! Antoine
Lavoisier, French nobleman, the father of modern chemistry, tax
collector with the Ferme Generale (outsourced customs, excise and
indirect tax operation on behalf of the French king), branded a
traitor and guillotined by revolutionists during The Reign Of
Terror (d. May 8, 1794) is #born Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier to a
wealthy family of the nobility in Paris, France. Antoine Lavoisier
was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a
large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history
of biology. He is widely considered in popular literature as the
"father of modern chemistry". It is generally accepted
that Lavoisier's great accomplishments in chemistry stem largely
from his changing the science from a qualitative to a quantitative
one. Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen
plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen (1778) and
hydrogen (1783), and opposed the phlogiston theory. Lavoisier
helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list
of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He
predicted the existence of silicon (1787) and discovered that,
although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always
remains the same. Lavoisier was a powerful member of a number of
aristocratic councils, and an administrator of the Ferme generale.
The Ferme generale was one of the most hated components of the
Ancien Regime because of the profits it took at the expense of the
state, the secrecy of the terms of its contracts, and the violence
of its armed agents. All of these political and economic
activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the
height of the French Revolution, he was tried, convicted and
guillotined in one day in Paris on charges of tax fraud, having
adulterated the nation's tobacco with water, and of having
supplied the enemies of France with huge sums of money from the
national treasury. Lavoisier's importance to science was expressed
by Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer,
who lamented the beheading by saying: "It took them only an
instant to cut off this head, and one hundred years might not
suffice to reproduce its like." He is buried at Picpus
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Forest, American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio",
and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used
for motion pictures (d. June 30, 1961) is #born at Council Bluffs,
Iowa. He had over 180 patents, but also a tumultuous career -- he
boasted that he made, then lost, four fortunes. He was also
involved in several major patent lawsuits, spent a substantial
part of his income on legal bills, and was even tried (and
acquitted) for mail fraud. His most famous invention, in 1906, was
the three-element "Audion" (triode) vacuum tube, the
first practical amplification device. Although De Forest had only
a limited understanding of how it worked, it was the foundation of
the field of electronics, making possible radio and television
broadcasting, long distance telephone lines, and talking motion
pictures, among countless other applications. Lee De Forest died
of unspecified causes in Hollywood, California, aged 87. He is
interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles,
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Bradlee, one of the most prominent journalists of post-World War
II America, serving first as managing editor, then as executive
editor at The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991 (d. October 21,
2014) is #born Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee in Boston,
Massachusetts. He became a public figure when he joined the New
York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead
for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal. He
was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to
return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered its
award-winning story was false. After retirement, Bradlee continued
to be associated with the Post, holding the position of "Vice
President at-large" until his death. In retirement Bradlee
was an advocate for education and the study of history, including
working for years as an active trustee on the boards of several
major educational, historical, and archaeological research
institutions. Ben Bradlee died at his home in Washington, D.C., at
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August 26, 1819: #BOTD: #HBD! Prince
Albert Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, husband and consort of Queen
Victoria, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. December 14,
1861) is #born Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel in the
Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, to a family connected to many
of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of 20, he married his
first cousin, Queen Victoria; they had nine children. Initially he
felt constrained by his role of consort, which did not afford him
power or responsibilities. He gradually developed a reputation for
supporting public causes, such as educational reform and the
abolition of slavery worldwide, and was entrusted with running the
Queen's household, office and estates. He was heavily involved
with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was a
resounding success. Victoria came to depend more and more on his
support and guidance. He aided the development of Britain's
constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to be less partisan
in her dealings with Parliament-although he actively disagreed
with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during Lord
Palmerston's tenure as Foreign Secretary. In 1857, Albert was
given the formal title of Prince Consort. Albert is credited with
introducing the principle that the British royal family should
remain above politics and with aiding the development of Britain's
constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to be less partisan
in her dealings with Parliament -- although he actively disagreed
with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during Lord
Palmerston's tenure as Foreign Secretary. Before his marriage to
Victoria, she supported the Whigs; for example, early in her reign
Victoria managed to thwart the formation of a Tory government by
Sir Robert Peel by refusing to accept substitutions which Peel
wanted to make among her ladies-in-waiting. Prince Albert died at
10:50 p.m. in the Blue Room at Windsor Castle, England, in the
presence of the Queen and five of their nine children, at the
relatively young age of 42. The contemporary diagnosis was typhoid
fever, but modern writers have pointed out that Albert's ongoing
stomach pain, leaving him ill for at least two years before his
death, may indicate that a chronic disease, such as Crohn's
disease, kidney failure, or abdominal cancer, was the cause of
death. Albert's body was temporarily entombed in St George's
Chapel, Windsor Castle. A year after his death his remains were
deposited at the Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, which remained
incomplete until 1871. The sarcophagus, in which both he and the
Queen were eventually laid, was carved from the largest block of
granite that had ever been quarried in Britain. The Queen's grief
was overwhelming, and the tepid feelings the public had previously
for Albert were replaced by sympathy. The widowed Victoria never
recovered from Albert's death; she entered into a deep state of
mourning and wore black for the rest of her life. Albert's rooms
in all his houses were kept as they had been, even with hot water
brought in the morning and linen and towels changed daily. Such
practices were not uncommon in the houses of the very rich.
Victoria withdrew from public life and her seclusion eroded some
of Albert's work in attempting to re-model the monarchy as a
national institution setting a moral, if not political, example.
Despite Albert's request that no effigies of him should be raised,
many public monuments were erected all over the country and across
the British Empire. The most notable are the Royal Albert Hall and
the Albert Memorial in London. The plethora of memorials erected
to Albert became so great that Charles Dickens told a friend that
he sought an "inaccessible cave" to escape from them.
Places and objects named after Albert range from Lake Albert in
Africa to the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to the Albert
Medal presented by the Royal Society of Arts. Four regiments of
the British Army were named after him: 11th (Prince Albert's Own)
Hussars; Prince Albert's Light Infantry; Prince Albert's Own
Leicestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry; and The Prince
Consort's Own Rifle Brigade. He and Queen Victoria showed a keen
interest in the establishment and development of Aldershot in
Hampshire as a garrison town in the 1850s. They had a wooden Royal
Pavilion built there in which they would often stay when attending
military reviews. Albert established and endowed the Prince
Consort's Library at Aldershot, which still exists today. In 1851,
botanist John Lindley named a tree from Patagonia, Saxegothaea
after one of the Prince's titles, with the Prince's permission.
Upon Victoria's death in 1901, their eldest son succeeded as
Edward VII, the first British monarch of the House Of Saxe-Coburg
And Gotha, named after the ducal house to which Albert belonged.
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Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, inventor (in modern
times) of the hot air balloon (d. June 26, 1810) is #born in
Annonay, Ardeche, France. The Montgolfier brothers Joseph-Michel
Montgolfier and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 -
August 2, 1799) were paper manufacturers from Annonay, in Ardeche,
France best known as inventors of the Montgolfiere-style hot air
balloon, globe aerostatique. They launched the first piloted
ascent, carrying Etienne. Joseph Michel also invented the
self-acting hydraulic ram (1796), Jacques Etienne founded the
first paper making vocational school and the brothers invented a
process to manufacture transparent paper. Joseph-Michel
Montgolfier die aged 69 in Balaruc-les-Bains, France. His burial
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August 26, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Maxwell D.
Taylor, senior American general and diplomat, United States
Ambassador To South Vietnam (d. April 19, 1987) is #born Maxwell
Davenport Taylor in Keytesville, Missouri. He served with
distinction in World War II, most notably as commander of the
101st Airborne Division, nicknamed "The Screaming Eagles."
After the war, he served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff from October 1, 1962, having been appointed by President
John F. Kennedy, until his retirement from the Army on July 1,
1964. He then became US Ambassador to South Vietnam from July 14,
1964 to July 30, 1965). He is the father of biographer and
historian John Maxwell Taylor and of military historian and author
Thomas Happer Taylor. Afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
("Lou Gehrig's Disease"), Taylor spent his last three
months of life at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington,
DC, where he died at age 85. He is interred at Arlington National
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August 26, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmy
Rushing, African American blues shouter, balladeer, swing jazz
singer, pianist and bandleader from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best
known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from
1935 to 1948 (d. June 8, 1972) is #born James Andrew Rushing in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma into a family with musical talent and
accomplishments. His father, Andrew Rushing, was a trumpeter, and
his mother, Cora, and her brother were singers. He studied music
theory with Zelia N. Breaux at Frederick A. Douglass High School
in Oklahoma City and was unusual among his musical contemporaries
for having attended college at Wilberforce University. James
Andrew Rushing was known as "Mr. Five by Five" and was
the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for
Harry James and others; the lyrics describe Rushing's rotund
build: "he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide". He
joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927 and then joined Bennie
Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie
band when Moten died in 1935. Rushing said that his first time
singing in front of an audience was in 1924. He was playing piano
at a club when the featured singer, Carlyn Williams, invited him
to do a vocal. "I got out there and broke it up. I was a
singer from then on," he said. Rushing was a powerful singer
who had a range from baritone to tenor. He could project his voice
so that it soared over the horn and reed sections in a big-band
setting. Basie claimed that Rushing "never had an equal"
as a blues vocalist, though Rushing "really thought of
himself as a ballad singer." George Frazier, the author of
Harvard Blues, called Rushing's distinctive voice "a
magnificent gargle". Dave Brubeck defined Rushing's status
among blues singers as "the daddy of them all." Late in
his life Rushing said of his singing style, "I don't know
what kind of blues singer you'd call me. I just sing 'em."
Among his best-known recordings are "Going to Chicago",
with Basie, and "Harvard Blues", with a famous saxophone
solo by Don Byas. Jimmy Rushing died of leukemia aged 70 at Flower
Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City. He is buried at the Maple
Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. Until weeks
before his death, he was singing on weekends at the Half Note Club
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August 26, 1916: #BOTD: Virginia Hill,
Chicago Outfit prostitute, gun moll, courier and femme fatale, a
"central clearing house" for organized crime
intelligence, famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy
Siegel (d. March 24, 1966), is #born Onie Virginia Hill in
Lipscomb, Alabama, the seventh of ten children born to horse
trader W.M. (Mack) Hill and his wife Margaret. By the time Hill
was eight, she moved to Marietta, Georgia with her mother and
siblings after her parents separated. Hill attended Roberts
Grammar School, where she completed eighth grade, then dropped
out. In November 1931, Hill, then 15, married 16-year-old George
Randell. She claimed to have neither worn nor owned a pair of
shoes until the age of seventeen, when she ran away in 1933 for
Chicago with Randell, with the hopes of breaking into show
business. Once in Chicago, Hill separated from Randell, divorcing
him the following year. Hill found a job as a waitress at the
mob-run San Carlo Italian Village exhibit during the 1933 Century
of Progress Chicago's World Fair, and supplemented her income
working as a prostitute. She came to the attention of a wealthy
bookmaker and gambler, Joseph Epstein, who became her financial
advisor and reputed lover (although Epstein was known to be gay),
and ultimately, Hill entered into the Chicago Outfit crime
organization. In addition to being sexually passed around the
Chicago mob, she was used as a courier to pass messages between
mobsters. One contemporary commentator described Hill as "...more
than just another set of curves. She had ...a good memory, a
considerable flair for hole-in-the-corner diplomacy to allay the
suspicions of trigger-happy killers and a dual personality,
close-lipped about essentials, and able to chatter freely, and
apparently foolishly about inconsequentials." Even law
enforcement eventually concluded that she was a "central
clearing house" for intelligence on organized crime and
enjoyed an independent power base within the Mafia. Eventually
Hill became associated with Charles Fischetti, a cousin and
bodyguard of Al Capone. It was Fischetti who sent Hill to New York
to keep tabs on Luciano family capo Joe Adonis, which she did by
becoming his lover. Hill told people that she was a Southern-belle
society girl who had gone through four rich husbands, all divorced
or dead, and that she had received 1M USD each from their estates,
but authentic socialites saw through the ruse. Hill built up an
entourage of hangers-on and Latin gigolos hanging out on Broadway
and frequently picked up the check. While in New York, Hill was
introduced to another Luciano associate, Benjamin "Bugsy"
Siegel, and they ended up in a hotel together that night. Later
Siegel's and Hill's separate life paths brought them both to
Hollywood, and they began a torrid affair. There were rumors that
she and Siegel were secretly married in Mexico after Siegel
divorced his wife Esta in 1946, but there has not been any
evidence to prove the theory. Lore has it that Siegel named the
Flamingo Las Vegas resort after Hill, who loved to gamble and
whose nickname was supposedly "Flamingo," a moniker that
Siegel was said to have given her, referring to her long, thin
legs, but others have said that Hill was in fact short and
somewhat matronly in form. Another story about the origin of the
nickname said that after a few drinks, Hill's face would flush a
flamingo-like pink. However, organized crime king Lucky Luciano
wrote in his memoir that Siegel once owned an interest in the
Hialeah Park Race Track and viewed the flamingos who populated
nearby as a good omen. The "Flamingo" name was given to
the project at its inception by original resort financier Billy
Wilkerson. Four days before Siegel was assassinated at Hill's home
in California (June 1947), Hill took an unscheduled flight to
Paris, France, giving rise to speculation that she was warned in
advance of Siegel's impending murder. In 1950, Hill married Hans
Hauser, an Austrian skier; later giving birth to their only child,
Peter Hauser (November 20, 1950 - 1994). In 1951, Hill was
subpoenaed to testify before the Kefauver hearings, where she
denied having any knowledge of organized crime despite being
described by Time magazine in March of that year as the "queen
of the gangsters' molls." After Hill was indicted for income
tax evasion in 1954, she moved to Europe, where she lived for the
rest of her life with her son. Hill died of an overdose of
sleeping pills in Koppl, near Salzburg, Austria, on March 24, 1966
at the age of 49. Hill is buried in Aigen Cemetery in Salzburg.
According to Andy Edmonds' biography Bugsy's Baby: The Secret Life
of Mob Queen Virginia Hill, her death was suspicious despite it
being an apparent suicide. The Austrian media, which were well
informed about her former relationship with Siegel, speculated
that she tried to get money by using her knowledge of the
Italian-American Mafia and Mexican drug cartels. Hill was the
subject of a 1974 television movie, in which she was portrayed by
Dyan Cannon. She was played by Annette Bening in the 1991 film
Bugsy, a dramatization of her relationship with Bugsy Siegel
(portrayed by Warren Beatty). Hill was also the "loose"
basis for Joan Crawford's character "Ethel Whitehead"/"Lorna
Hansen Forbes" in the 1950 film noir The Damned Don't Cry. On
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Today, August 26, 2026
August 26, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Valerie
Simpson, African American singer-songwriter and record producer of
the husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo
Ashford & Simpson of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 - August
22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson, is #born in the Bronx, New York
City. Nickolas met Valerie at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church
in 1964. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they
joined an aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes,
Joshie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label, where their
compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So
Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step at a Time"), as
well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's
songs, "Let's Go Get Stoned," gave Ray Charles a number
one U.S. R & B hit in 1966. That same year, Ashford &
Simpson joined Motown, where their best-known songs included
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need
To Get By," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing,"
and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)." Ashford and
Simpson wrote many other hit songs, including Chaka Khan's "I'm
Every Woman" (1978) and Teddy Pendergrass's "Is It Still
Good to You?" As performers, Ashford & Simpson's
best-known duets are "Solid" (1984) and "Found a
Cure" (1979). The duo were inducted into the Songwriters Hall
of Fame in 2002. They are also recipients of The Rhythm &
Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award, ASCAP Founders Award, and the
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August 26, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Katherine
Johnson, African American mathematician whose calculations of
orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success
of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights (d. February
24, 2020) is #born Creola Katherine Coleman in White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia. Katherine Johnson's work included
calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return
paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for
astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John
Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the
Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her
calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space
Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars.
She was known as a "human computer" for her tremendous
mathematical capability and ability to work with space
trajectories with such little technology and recognition at the
time. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the
Presidential Medal Of Freedom. In 2016, she was presented with the
Silver Snoopy Award by NASA astronaut Leland D. Melvin and a NASA
Group Achievement Award. She was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson as
a lead character in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. In 2019, Johnson
was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States
Congress. In 2021, she was inducted posthumously into the National
Women's Hall of Fame. Katherine Johnson died at a retirement home
in Newport News at age 101. She is buried at Hampton Memorial
Gardens in Hampton, Virginia. Following her death, Jim
Bridenstine, NASA's administrator, described her as "an
American hero" and stated that "her pioneering legacy
will never be forgotten." During her 33-year career at NASA
and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex
manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to
perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical
role as one of the first African American women to work as a NASA
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August 26, 1935: #BOTD: #HBD! Geraldine
Ferraro, American politician, diplomat, journalist, author,
businesswoman and attorney who represented New York's 9th district
in the United States House Of Representatives from 1979 to 1985,
Democratic Party nominee for vice president in the 1984
presidential election, running alongside Walter Mondale, making
her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a
major American political party, United States Ambassador To The
United Nations Commission On Human Rights (d. March 26, 2011) is
#born Geraldine Anne Ferraro in Newburgh, New York. Ferraro grew
up in New York City and worked as a public school teacher before
training as a lawyer. She joined the Queens County District
Attorney's Office in 1974, heading the new Special Victims Bureau
that dealt with sex crimes, child abuse, and domestic violence. In
1978 she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where
she rose rapidly in the party hierarchy while focusing on
legislation to bring equity for women in the areas of wages,
pensions, and retirement plans. In 1984, former vice president and
presidential candidate Walter Mondale, seen as an underdog,
selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election.
In doing so Ferraro also became the first widely recognized
Italian American to be a major-party national nominee. The
positive polling the Mondale-Ferraro ticket received when she
joined soon faded, as damaging questions arose about her and her
businessman husband's finances and wealth and her congressional
disclosure statements. In the general election, Mondale and
Ferraro were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald
Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush. Ferraro twice ran
campaigns for a seat in the United States Senate from New York, in
1992 and in 1998, both times starting as the front-runner for her
party's nomination before losing in the primary election. She
served as the Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights from 1993 until 1996 during the presidential administration
of Bill Clinton. She also continued her career as a journalist,
author, and businesswoman, and served in the 2008 presidential
campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton. Ferraro died aged 75 from
multiple myeloma, 12 years after being diagnosed. She is buried in
St. John Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens, within her old
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August 26, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! Mother
Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa Of Calcutta, Roman Catholic
saint, Albanian-Macedonian-Indian nun, founder in 1950 and active
member of the Missionaries Of Charity, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
September 5, 1997) is #born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Uskub, now
Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. After living in Skopje for
eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she
lived for most of her life. After Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (passport
name) founded her missionary Roman Catholic religious
congregation, it grew to have over 4,500 nuns and was active in
133 countries as of 2012. The congregation manages homes for
people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. The
congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile
clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as
orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty,
and obedience and also profess a fourth vow-to give "wholehearted
free service to the poorest of the poor." Mother Teresa
received several honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace
Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4
September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is
her feast day. A controversial figure during her life and after
her death, Mother Teresa was admired by many for her charitable
work. She was praised and criticised on various counts, such as
for her views on abortion and contraception, and was criticized
for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorized
biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and
she has been the subject of films and other books. On 6 September
2017, Mother Teresa and St. Francis Xavier were named co-patrons
of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta. Mother Teresa died
aged 87 in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India. She is buried
at The Mother House Of The Missionaries Of Charity in Kolkata. On
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Today, August 26, 2026
August 26, 410: Rome: Ancient Rome: The
Western Roman Empire: The Fall Of The Western Roman Empire (The
Fall Of The Roman Empire, The Fall Of Rome): Sacks Of Rome: The
Sack Of Rome (410) (August 24-27, 410): -- The Visigoths under
King Alaric I continue their pillaging of Rome for a second day.
At that time, Rome was no longer the capital of the Western Roman
Empire, having been replaced in that position first by Mediolanum
in 286 and then by Ravenna in 402. Nevertheless, the city of Rome
retained a paramount position as "the eternal city" and
a spiritual center of the Empire. The sack was a major shock to
contemporaries, friends and foes of the Empire alike. This was the
first time in almost 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign
enemy. The previous Sack Of Rome had been accomplished by the
Gauls under their leader Brennus in 390 or 387/6 BC. The sacking
of 410 is seen as a major landmark in the fall of the Western
Roman Empire. St. Jerome, living in Bethlehem at the time, wrote;
"the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken."
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 1723: #DOTD: #RIP: Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist, biologist, businessman and
scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology known
as "the Father of Microbiology", one of the first
microscopists and microbiologists (b. October 24, 1632) #dies at
the age of 90 in Delft, Dutch Republic, the city of where he was
born and raised, and was buried there four days later in the Oude
Kerk, a Gothic Protestant church in the old city center. Antonie
Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a largely self-taught man in science,
best known for his pioneering work in microscopy and for his
contributions toward the establishment of microbiology as a
scientific discipline. van Leeuwenhoek worked as a draper in his
youth and founded his own shop in 1654. He became well recognized
in municipal politics and developed an interest in lensmaking. In
the 1670s, he started to explore microbial life with his
microscope. This was one of the notable achievements of the Golden
Age of Dutch exploration and discovery (c._1590s-1720s). Using
single-lensed microscopes of his own design and make, van
Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe and to experiment with
microbes, which he originally referred to as dierkens, diertgens
or diertjes (Dutch for "small animals" [translated into
English as animalcules, from Latin animalculum = "tiny
animal"]). He was the first to relatively determine their
size. Most of the "animalcules" are now referred to as
unicellular organisms, although he observed multicellular
organisms in pond water. He was also the first to document
microscopic observations of muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa,
red blood cells, crystals in gouty tophi, and among the first to
see blood flow in capillaries. Although van Leeuwenhoek did not
write any books, he described his discoveries in letters to the
Royal Society, which published many of his letters, and to persons
in several European countries.
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 1950: #DOTD: #RIP: Ransom E.
Olds, American businessman, pioneer of the American automotive
industry, founder of Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company, both of
whom were named after him (b. June 3, 1864) #dies aged 86 in
Lansing, Michigan of unspecified causes. He is buried at Mt. Hope
Cemetery, Lansing, Michigan. Ransom E. Olds was born Ransom Eli
Olds in Geneva, Ohio. Ransom E. Olds was born Ransom Eli Olds in
Geneva, Ohio. He claimed to have built his first steam car as
early as 1887 and his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. The
modern assembly line and its basic concept is credited to Olds,
who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the
Oldsmobile Curved Dash, beginning in 1901. The band REO Speedwagon
took their name from the REO Speed Wagon light delivery truck, an
ancestor of pickup trucks, though the band pronounces REO as an
initialism (saying each letter) rather than as an acronym
(pronouncing it as a word, "RIO").
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 1974: #DOTD: #RIP: Charles
Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle,
American aviation pioneer, pilot, explorer, author, inventor,
explorer, environmental activist, non-interventionist,
isolationist and National Socialist fellow traveller (b. February
4, 1902) #dies in Kipahulu, Hawaii, U.S. of lymphoma at age 72. He
is buried on the grounds of the Palapala Ho'omau Church in
Kipahulu, Maui. His epitaph, on a simple stone following the words
"Charles A. Lindbergh Born Michigan 1902 Died Maui 1974",
quotes Psalm 139:9: "... If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ... C.A.L".
Charles A. Lindbergh was born Charles Augustus Lindbergh in
Detroit, Michigan. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a
U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his
Orteig Prize-winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to
Paris. He covered the 33 1/2-hour, 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km)
alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of
St. Louis. This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the
first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe.
Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and
he received the United States' highest military decoration, the
Medal Of Honor, for the feat. In March 1932, his infant son,
Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media
called the "Crime of the Century" and described by H. L.
Mencken as "the biggest story since the resurrection".
The case prompted the United States Congress to upgrade kidnapping
from a state crime to a federal crime once the kidnapper had
crossed state lines with his victim. By late 1935 the hysteria
surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into
voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some
people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An
advocate of non-interventionism he supported the antiwar America
First Committee, which opposed American aid to Britain in its war
against Germany, and resigned his commission in the United States
Army Air Forces in 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt
publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly
supported the U.S. war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor and flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific Theater of
World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to
reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission.
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 1980: #DOTD: #RIP: Tex Avery,
American animator, director, and voice actor known for producing
animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation (b.
February 26, 1908) #dies of lung cancer at St. Joseph's Hospital
in Burbank, California at the age of 72. At the time of his death,
he was developing a character named "Cave Mouse" for a
new Flintstones series. His last words according to Chuck Jones,
when watching a baseball game with another animator, were "I
don't know where animators go when they die, but I guess there
must be a lot of them. They could probably use a good director
though." He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood
Hills, California. Tex Avery was born Frederick Bean Avery in
Taylor, Texas. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros.
and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, crucial in the evolution of Bugs
Bunny, creating Daffy Duck, Droopy, and Screwy Squirrel, and
developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy into the personas for which
they are remembered. Avery's style of directing encouraged
animators to stretch the boundaries of the medium to do things in
a cartoon that could not be done in the world of live-action film.
An often-quoted line about Avery' cartoons was, "In a cartoon
you can do anything."
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Neil Simon,
American playwright, screenwriter and author (b. July 4, 1927)
#dies of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan
while hospitalized for kidney failure. He was 91 years old when he
died, and was also suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He is
buried at Pound Ridge Cemetery in Pound Ridge, New York. Neil
Simon was born Marvin Neil Simon to Jewish parents in The Bronx,
New York City. His father, Irving Simon, was a garment salesman,
and his mother, Mamie (Levy) Simon, was mostly a homemaker. Neil
had one brother, eight years his senior, television writer and
comedy teacher Danny Simon. Neil Simon wrote more than 30 plays
and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly
adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony
nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City
during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships
affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable
childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed
watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After
graduating from high school and a few years in the Army Air Force
Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some
popular early television shows. Among them were Sid Caesar's Your
Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young
writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond), and
The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. He began
writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961),
which took him three years to complete and ran for 678
performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful
plays, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for
which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and
"the hottest new playwright on Broadway." During the
1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage
plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style
ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic
comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three.
During one season, he had four successful plays running on
Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living
playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre,
named in his honor.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 1914: World War I: The Guns Of
August: The Western Front: The Battle Of The Frontiers: The Battle
Of Mons: The Great Retreat (French: "La Grande Retraite",
The Retreat From Mons): The European Civil War: World War I: The
First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Guns
Of August: The Western Front Of World War I: The Battle Of Mons:
The Great Retreat (French: "La Grande Retraite", The
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from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace
Smith-Dorrien fought a vigorous and successful defensive action at
Le Cateau. The Battle of Le Cateau was fought after the British
and French retreated from the Battle Of Mons and had set up
defensive positions in a fighting withdrawal against the German
advance at Le Cateau-Cambresis. The Battle Of Mons was the first
major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First
World War. It was a subsidiary action of The Battle Of The
Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French
borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of
the Mons-Conde Canal against the advancing German 1st Army.
Although the British fought well and inflicted disproportionate
casualties on the numerically superior Germans, they were
eventually forced to retreat due both to the greater strength of
the Germans and the sudden retreat of the French Fifth Army, which
exposed the British right flank. Though initially planned as a
simple tactical withdrawal and executed in good order, the British
retreat from Mons lasted for two weeks and took the BEF to the
outskirts of Paris before it counter-attacked in concert with the
French, at the Battle Of The Marne. The Great Retreat, (French: La
Grande Retraite) also known as the Retreat from Mons, is the name
given to the long withdrawal to the River Marne, in August and
September 1914, by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the
French Fifth Army, Allied forces on the Western Front in World War
I, after their defeat by the Imperial German armies at the Battle
Of Charleroi (August 21) and the Battle Of Mons (August 23).
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Lee Hays,
American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass
with The Weavers (b. March 14, 1914) #dies of diabetic
cardiovascular disease at home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, aged
67. In accordance with his wishes, his ashes were mixed with his
compost pile. Lee Hays was born Lee Elhardt Hays in Little Rock,
Arkansas. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming
racism, inequality, and violence in society. He came up with the
name of the group The Weavers from a play written in 1892 by the
German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann about a group of Silesian
weavers who staged an uprising during the 1840s due to their
concerns about the Industrial Revolution. He wrote or co-wrote
"Wasn't That a Time?", "If I Had a Hammer",
and "Kisses Sweeter than Wine", which became Weavers'
staples. He also familiarized audiences with songs of the 1930s
labor movement, such as "We Shall Not Be Moved".
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 1978: #DOTD: #RIP: Charles
Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. August 28,
1899) #dies of a broken heart by suicide when, overcome with grief
over the death by cancer two days prior of his beautiful wife,
English actress Pat Paterson, he took an overdose of seconal while
at a friend's home in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was taken to the
hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where he died, two days before his
own 79th birthday. He is interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver
City, California, alongside his wife and son Michael Charles
Boyer, the latter having shot himself in the right temple after
his girlfriend Marilyn Campbell told him she did not want to see
him again. Charles Boyer was born in Figeac, Lot, France; his
surname comes from "boier", the Occitan word for
"cowherd". After receiving an education in drama, Boyer
started on the stage, but he found his success in American films
during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's
most highly praised, in romantic dramas such as The Garden of
Allah (1936), Algiers (1938), and Love Affair (1939), as well as
the mystery-thriller Gaslight (1944). He received four Oscar
nominations for Best Actor. Charles Boyer appeared in more than 80
films between 1920 and 1976.
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Today's
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Today, August 26, 2026August 26, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Barrie
Dunsmore, Canadian journalist who covered foreign affairs for ABC
News for 30 years, who from 1965 to 1995 reported on virtually
every major international event from Washington and more than one
hundred countries -- from wars, to summits, to the policies of
seven U.S. presidents from Johnson to Clinton (b. February 13,
1939) #dies on a Sunday in Washington, D.C. at the age of 79. His
burial details are not publicly disclosed. He was married to
Marlene Finlayson and Whitney Taylor. Barrie Dunsmore was born in
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. From the height of the Cold War
until its end, Dunsmore was regularly present when American
presidents and Soviet leaders met. He was with Israeli troops when
they captured the Suez Canal from Egypt in 1967 and when General
Ariel Sharon put the city of Suez under siege in 1973. He was on
Henry Kissinger's Middle East Shuttles in the aftermath of the
1973 war and was with President Jimmy Carter in the Middle East
six years later when he finally cemented the historic
Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Dunsmore covered the fall of South
Vietnam in 1975, conducted the first American television interview
with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and was with three former
presidents (Nixon, Ford and Carter) who attended Sadat's funeral.
He watched SCUD missiles fall on Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf
War. He had a worldwide scoop on the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in 1979, and he did the first American television
report on the destruction of the Amazon rainforests in 1988. As
ABC's senior foreign correspondent from 1984 to 1991, Dunsmore
focused on events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as the
Iron Curtain began to disintegrate. Throughout 1989, he witnessed
dramatic moments in the collapse of communism and reported live
for ABC News Nightline from the Berlin Wall the night it began to
fall. After retirement in 1995, Dunsmore became a Fellow at the
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He received the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University's Edward Weintal Prize in 1995. Barrie Dunsmore was the
author of "There and Back: Commentary by a Former Foreign
Correspondent," published in 2011 by Wind Ridge Publishing,
Inc. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said of Dunsmore's
book, "This compilation of essays dating from the weeks when
he accompanied me on the Mideast shuttles in the early 1970's, to
his commentaries on the Arab Spring will mark Dunsmore firmly as
one of the significant journalists of our era." After
retirement, Dunsmore moved to Charlotte, Vermont, and wrote a
Sunday column for the Rutland Herald, the second largest daily
newspaper in the state after The Burlington Free Press.
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