Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on August 26 throughout history.
On August 26, 2018, a mass shooting occurred during a Madden NFL 19 qualifying tournament at the GLHF Game Bar in the Jacksonville Landing marketplace in Jacksonville, Florida, Un…
Exactly 5 years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida,…
On August 26, 2018, a mass shooting occurred during a Madden NFL 19 qualifying tournament at the GLHF Game Bar in the Jacksonville Landing marketplace in Jacksonville, Florida, Un…
Exactly five years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida,…
Foreign nationals and some vulnerable Afghan citizens were airlifted from Kabul by the United States and its allies in 2021. The airlift followed the Taliban's rapid takeover of A…
During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel…
On August 26, 2018, a mass shooting occurred during a Madden NFL 19 qualifying tournament at the GLHF Game Bar in the Jacksonville Landing marketplace in Jacksonville, Florida, Un…
Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in…
On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatall…
Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta,…
From the late 1980s until 2013, group-based child sexual exploitation affected an estimated 1,400 girls, generally from care home backgrounds, in the town of Rotherham, South York…
The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, often shortened to Boeing 787, is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After dropping its unconvent…
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.
On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California, United States. Searches began im…
Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years. Her captors,…
The Beechcraft 1900 is an American twin-engine turboprop regional airliner manufactured by Beechcraft. It is also used as a freight aircraft and corporate transport, and by severa…
A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in…
The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from Augu…
Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping…
Delta III was an expendable launch vehicle made by McDonnell Douglas. Development was canceled before the vehicle became operational. The vehicle is the third generation of the De…
The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the loss of the…
The Beni Ali massacre took place in the mountain hamlet of Beni Ali, 40 miles (64 km) south of Algiers near Chrea, on 26 August 1997. Sixty-four or 100 people were killed in a ter…
Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
Sakha Avia Flight 301 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kutana to Aldan via Uchur in Russia. On 26 August 1993 the Let L-410 Turbolet operating the flight crashed on …
Sakha Avia Flight 301 crashes on approach to Aldan Airport, killing all 24 aboard.
Aeropesca Flight 221 was an internal scheduled passenger flight from Florencia Airport to Neiva Airport in Colombia. On 26 August 1981 it was being operated by a Vickers Viscount …
Aeropesca Flight 221 crashes in Colombia's Huila Department, killing all 50 people on board.
On August 26–27, 1980, several men masquerading as photocopier deliverers planted an elaborately booby trapped bomb containing 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of dynamite at Harvey's Resort…
After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI…
A conclave was held on 25 and 26 August 1978 to elect a new pope to succeed Paul VI, who had died on 6 August 1978. Of the 114 eligible cardinal electors, all but three attended. …
Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
The Charter of the French Language, also known as Bill 101, is a law in the Canadian province of Quebec defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the …
The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad and officially branded as Munich 1972, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germ…
The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, West Germany.
The Women's Strike for Equality took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectivel…
The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
On August 26, 1969, an Il-18 of Aeroflot landed without its landing gear and burst into flames during landing at Vnukovo Airport. The flight was a sheduled domestic flight from So…
Aeroflot Flight 1770 crashes while landing at Vnukovo International Airport, killing 16.