On This Day:
Friday August 26, 2011
This is the 238th day of the year, with 127 days
remaining in 2011.
Fact of the Day: women's equality day
Women's Equality Day was first celebrated in in 1971,
marking women's advancements toward equality with men on the
anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
(1920) which granted American women full suffrage. Annually
since then, women have observed the day with events that
celebrate women's progress toward equality.
Holidays
Feast Day of St. Bergwine, archbishop of Canterbury, St.
John Wall, St. Mary Desmaisieres, St. Pandonia, and St.
Teresa Jornet Ihars.
Namibia:
Heroes' Day.
United
States: Women's Equality Day.
Events
55
B.C.E. - Roman forces under Julius
Caesar invaded Britain.
1429
- Joan
of Arc made a triumphant entry into Paris.
1791
- John
Fitch was granted a United
States patent for the steamboat.
1847
- Liberia
was proclaimed an independent republic.
1883
- The volcano Krakatoa
erupted in the largest recorded explosion.
1939
- WXBS of New
York City televised the first major league baseball
games.
1957
- Ford
Motor Company unveiled the Edsel.
1968
- As the Democratic
National Convention began in Chicago,
thousands of antiwar demonstrators protested the Vietnam
War and its support by presidential candidate, Vice
President Hubert
Humphrey.
2002
- Earth
Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg,
South
Africa.
2003
- Columbia
Accident Investigation Board releases its final
reports on the Space
Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Births
1743
- Antoine
Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist, known as the
"Father of Modern Chemistry."
1874
- Lee
De Forest, American physicist, inventor, considered
the "Father of radio."
1906
- Albert
Sabin, Polish-born American polio
researcher.
1920
- Brant
Parker, American cartoonist.
1940
- Don
LaFontaine, American voice
actor.
1960
- Branford
Marsalis, an American jazz
and classical
saxophonist.
Deaths
1930
- Lon
Chaney, Sr., American actor.
1974
- Charles
Lindbergh, American pioneer aviator and first person
to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic
Ocean.
1978
- Charles
Boyer, French-born American actor.
1980
- Tex
Avery (born Frederick Bean Avery), American cartoonist.
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