Today In History - August 26

55BC Roman forces, under the command of Julius Caesar invade Britain
1346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Cr‚cy
1629 Cambridge Agreement is signed
1791 John Fitch is granted a US patent for his working steamboat
1846 W. A. Bartlett is appointed the first US mayor of Yerba Buena (San Francisco)
1874 16 blacks are hanged in Tennessee
1883 Krakatoa erupts and kills 36,000 people
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at the Aquatic Park in 57 seconds
1914 The Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
1920 The 19th Amendment ratification is certified, and women's suffrage granted
1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay is finished
1938 The Montreal Maroons are dropped from the NHL
1939 The first major league baseball telecast
1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in the Vichy Free Zone of France
1947 The first black baseball pitcher, Don Bankhead, plays
1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
1955 The first color telecast of a tennis match: the Davis Cup
1957 The USSR announces a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile
1961 The Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1964 LBJ is nominated at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1972 The Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany
1973 David Eisenhower's last sports column
1973 University of Texas (Arlington) is the first accredited school to offer belly dancing
1974 Charles Lindbergh dies at 72
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1982 NASA launches Telesat-F
1986 Ted Knight (news anchor on the Mary Tyler Moore Show) dies at age 62
1990 Two slain college students are found in Gainesville, Florida

1596 Frederik V (King of Bohemia)
1627 Thomas Bullis
1676 Robert Walpole
1687 Willem the Fesch
1726 Karl Kohaut
1728 Johann Lambert
1740 Joseph Montgolfier
1743 Antoine Lavoisier
1811 Danville Leadbetter
1813 Nicaise de Keyser
1820 James Harlan
1823 Wilhelm Troszel
1835 Theodore Washington Brevard
1838 John Wilkes Booth: assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
1850 Charles Richet
1870 Aleksander Kuprin
1873 Lee De Forest
1875 John Buchan
1880 Guillaume Apollinaire
1882 James Franck
1882 Johannes Lindeboom
1884 Earl Biggers
1885 Jules Romains
1887 Luis Abraham Delgadillo
1890 Tommy Andrews
1891 Emmy van Lokhorst
1901 General Maxwell D. Taylor
1901 Jan de Quay
1901 Maxwell D. Taylor
1901 Tullio Campagnolo
1903 Jimmy Rushing
1904 Christopher Isherwood
1904 Christopher W. Bradshaw-Isherwood
1906 Albert B. Sabin
1908 Bill Hunt
1909 Frank Gasparro
1911 Lester Lanin
1913 Tschakowski
1915 Jim Davis
1915 William Bardwell
1916 Allan Leslie Merson
1917 Jan Clayton
1917 William French Smith
1919 Ronny Graham
1921 Ben Bradlee
1921 David Begelman
1921 William Preston
1922 Lazar Nikolov
1927 Francois Leydet
1927 Sam Massell
1930 Joe Solomon
1936 Yvette Vickers
1937 Tom Heinsohn
1938 Francine York
1938 Maurice Williams
1940 Fred Milano
1941 Barbara Ehrenreich
1941 Barbet Schroeder
1942 Vic Dana
1946 Alison Steadman
1947 Candy Moore
1948 Jet Black
1948 Valerie Simpson
1949 John Baldwin
1952 John Kinsella
1952 Michael Jeter
1952 Willie Rush
1954 Michael Chetwood
1957 Alex Trevino
1959 Jim Rutledge
1959 Joanne Gail Abbott
1960 Ola Ray
1961 Jeff Parrett
1961 Jimmy Olander
1962 Roger Kingdom
1963 David Byas
1964 Bobby Jurasin
1964 Chad Kreuter
1964 Dave Boyes
1964 Karla Karch-Gailus
1965 Chris Burke
1965 Jon Hensley
1969 Elaine Irwin Mellencamp
1969 Mike Gisler
1969 Nicole Arendt
1969 Ricky Bottalico
1970 Brett Schultz
1970 Jacco Eltingh
1971 Jocelyn Borgella
1971 Sharon Tina Jenkins
1972 Sherell Ford
1973 Barret Robbins
1974 Freddie Scott
1974 Kelvin Cato
1975 Shea Seals
1976 Carey Tally
1977 Liam Botham
1980 Macaulay Culkin