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Events

• 1542 (484 years ago) A year and a half after leaving Guayaquil on the Pacific coast, Francisco de Orellana finishes his overland journey across South America and reaches the mouth of the Amazon River on the Atlantic coast.
• 1648 (378 years ago) The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens, Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France, suddenly orders the arrest of the leaders of the Parlement of Paris, provoking the rest of Paris to break into insurrection and barricade the streets the next day.
• 1778 (248 years ago) The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
• 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign. Togoland is the first German colony to fall to Allied hands in World War I.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
• 1972 (54 years ago) The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, West Germany.
• 1997 (29 years ago) Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.

Births

• 1676 (350 years ago) Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1745)
• 1743 (283 years ago) Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (died 1794)
• 1880 (146 years ago) Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1918)
• 1882 (144 years ago) James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
• 1910 (116 years ago) Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
• 1914 (112 years ago) Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (died 1984)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician (died 2020)
• 1980 (46 years ago) Chris Pine, American actor

Deaths

• 1666 (360 years ago) Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (born 1580)
• 1723 (303 years ago) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (born 1632)
• 1850 (176 years ago) Louis Philippe I of France,
• 1910 (116 years ago) William James, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1842)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (born 1890)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (born 1902)
• 1979 (47 years ago) Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (born 1908)
• 1998 (28 years ago) Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

All 360 events, births and deaths of August 26