Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 26

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  Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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  An engraving on the Battle of Crécy
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  Battle of Crécy
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  Battle of Manzikert
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  Juan José Castelli
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  Eruption of Krakatoa
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  Betty Friedan
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  Sigmund Jähn
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  Bomb explosion at Harvey's Resort Hotel after a failed disarming
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  Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• 1071 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert.
• 1346 – Hundred Years' War: English forces established the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights at the Battle of Crécy (depicted).
• 1789 – French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (pictured), defining a set of individual and collective rights of the people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly.
• 1914 – World War I: As the British Expeditionary Force and French Fifth Army began their retreat from Mons, the British II Corps delayed the pursuing Germans at the Battle of Le Cateau long enough for the main force to escape.
• 1928 – At a cafe in Paisley, Scotland, a woman found the remains of a snail in her bottle of ginger beer, giving rise to the landmark civil action case Donoghue v Stevenson.
• 1940 – The 1940 New England hurricane formed over the Atlantic Ocean; it would go on to cause widespread damage despite never making landfall in the United States.
• 1955 – Pather Panchali, the first film in The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, was released and went on to win many Indian and international film awards.
• 1966 – The South African Defence Force launched an attack against SWAPO guerrilla fighters at Omugulugwombashe, starting the South African Border War.
• 1968 – The Beatles released "Hey Jude", which became the then-longest single to top the UK charts.
• 1970 – Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 50,000 women protested the continuing lack of gender equality.
• 1978 – Aboard the Soviet Soyuz 31 spacecraft, Sigmund Jähn (pictured) became the first German in space.
• 1980 – A bomb was planted at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, which the FBI later described as the most complex improvised explosive device ever created.
• 2008 – After a ceasefire was reached in the Russo-Georgian War, Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
• 2015 – Two American journalists were murdered on live television while conducting an interview in Moneta, Virginia.
• Born/died: | Arnold Fothergill |b|1854| Zona Gale |b|1874| Katherine Johnson |b|1918| Sophia Parnok |d|1933| Geraldine Ferraro |b|1935| Ralph Vaughan Williams |d|1958 | Reginald Judson |d|1972 Mildred Albert |d|1991| Frederick Reines |d|1998|Amelia Boynton Robinson |d|2015

• Invasion of Dagestan appears on August 7, so Chechen War or Abkhazia/South Ossetia should not appear in the same year.