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Events on August 26

• 1278 Rudolf I of Habsburg, King of the Romans and the Germans, defeats the Bohemian King Ottokar II Přemysl at the Battle of Marchfeld near Dürnkrut, where the latter is killed.
• 1726 The foundation stone of the Frauenkirche is laid in Dresden.
• 1789 During the French Revolution, the National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
• 1807 The Kingdom of Bavaria becomes the first country in the world to introduce compulsory vaccination against smallpox.
• 1921 Reich Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger becomes a victim of one of the politically motivated murders of women in the Weimar Republic near Bad Griesbach in the Black Forest.
• 1953 The Cinemascope process is presented in Germany for the first time by the American film company 20th Century Fox.
• 1977 In November 1976, the GDR arrests Jürgen Fuchs, Christian Kunert, and Gerulf Pannach in connection with the protests against Biermann's denaturalization and expels them to West Berlin.
• 1981 The American space probe Voyager 2 flies past Saturn and sends back many photos of the planet, its rings, and its moons.
• 1987 The German federal government decides to raise the welcome allowance for visitors from East Germany from two payments of 30 DM to a single payment of 100 DM per person per year. This is intended to compensate for a reduction in the permitted maximum amount for purchases with DM by the GDR.
• 2017 New Zealand wins the final of the Women's Rugby Union World Championship in Belfast against England 41:32.
• 2020 The British-American science fiction film Tenet opens in German cinemas.
• 2021 In two bomb attacks at the airport in Kabul, at least 95 people are killed and 200 others are injured, some seriously. Among the victims are 13 US soldiers.

Born on August 26

• 1882 James Franck, American physicist
• 1910 Mother Teresa, Albanian order founder, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1913 Julius Döpfner, German archbishop
• 1933 Rainer Erler, German author, director, and film producer
• 1934 Paul Gauselmann, German entrepreneur
• 1970 Mark Benecke, German forensic biologist
• 1970 Melissa McCarthy, American actress
• 1980 Macaulay Culkin, American actor
• 1980 Chris Pine, American actor
• 1991 Dylan O’Brien, American actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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