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Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Sunday Times, Australia
Advertiser, Australia
Aug 26 2004
On this day
26aug04
1896 - Armenian revolutionaries attack the Ottoman Bank in
Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6,000
Armenians die.
55BC - Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain.
580 - It is thought that toilet paper is invented by the Chinese.
1346 - A cannon is used for the first time in a European battle as
Edward III of England defeats Philip VI of France.
1541 - Suleiman I, Sultan of Turkey, takes Buda and annexes Hungary.
1847 - Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic.
1859 - Britain and Japan sign a commercial treaty.
1883 - A huge eruption of a volcano on Krakatoa island in the Sundra
Strait between Java and Sumatra continues. The two-day eruption and
associated tidal waves kill about 36,000 people and destroy
two-thirds of the island.
1883 - Cricket's Ashes trophy is created when a defeated English
captain is presented with an urn containing ashes of the 1882-3
stumps following Australia's victory.
1884 - A patent is granted to German immigrant Ottmar Mergenthaler
for the Linotype machine, which allowed mass production of
newspapers.
1896 - Insurrection begins in the Philippines against the Spanish;
Armenian revolutionaries attack the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople,
provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6,000 Armenians die.
1912 - The first Tarzan story by William Rice Burroughs appears in a
US magazine.
1913 - A Russian pilot, Lieutenant Peter Nesterov, is credited with
becoming the first person to perform the loop-the-loop.
1914 - More than 30,000 Russian troops are killed during WWII as they
are out-manoeuvred by German troops at the battle of Tannenberg.
1915 - German army captures Brest-Litovsk in Russia during World War
I.
1920 - The 19th Amendment to the American Constitution is ratified,
giving women the vote.
1930 - Death of US silent movie actor Lon Chaney who became known as
the man of a thousand faces.
1936 - Treaty ends British occupation of Egypt, except Suez Canal
zone, and Britain and Egypt form alliance for 20 years.
1937 - Japan blockades Chinese shipping; the first televised major
league baseball games is shown in the United States, a doubleheader
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
1942 - German army reaches Stalingrad in Soviet Union during World
War II.
1945 - Japanese envoys board US battleship Missouri to receive
surrender instructions at the end of World War II.
1947 - The UN Security Council passes a resolution for both the Dutch
and Indonesians to adhere to a ceasefire order.
1952 - Floods caused by monsoon rains inundate 90 per cent of Manila,
causing at least eight deaths. It is Manila's third flood in a month.
1957 - Soviet Union announces it has successfully tested an
intercontinental ballistic missile.
1959 - Chinese troops cross into India's north-eastern territory
after a border dispute.
1964 - Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, bans two black nationalist movements;
student and Buddhist riots force resignation of government of Premier
Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam.
1967 - Andreas Papandreou, former Greek cabinet minister and son of
ex-premier George Papandreou, is indicted on treason charges and
accused of leading the Aspid (Shield) army conspiracy.
1970 - North Vietnam sends its chief negotiator back to Vietnam peace
talks in Paris after an eight and a half month boycott of
negotiations.
1972 - The summer Olympics games open in Munich, West Germany; death
of British yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester.
1973 - The Cambodian military reports that Khmer Rouge rebel troops
had severed Phnom Penh's two vital supply roads - one leading to the
seaport and the other to rice fields.
1974 - Death of US aviator Charles Lindbergh.
1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice is elected as Pope John Paul
I.
1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin wrap up a two-day summit in Alexandria with the return
of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt scheduled for next April.
1982 - Argentine government lifts a ban on political parties.
1985 - A special French investigator issues a report clearing
France's Socialist government and the intelligence service of
involvement in the sinking of the Greenpeace protest vessel Rainbow
Warrior in Auckland harbour on July 10.
1988 - Nationwide strike paralyses government and transportation in
Burma and anti-government rallies spread; tens of thousands of civil
rights marchers gather in Washington, DC, on the eve of the 25th
anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
1990 - Number of US soldiers, airmen and sailors in the Gulf reaches
60,000.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev promises new national
elections after the signing of the Union Treaty, but there appears to
be little support for the treaty in the wake of a failed coup
attempt.
1992 - Serb militiamen pound Sarajevo with rockets and mortars,
setting fire to medieval Turkish baths and the main library in the
Bosnian capital.
1993 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 14 others are charged in the World
Trade Centre attack and New York bombing plot.
1994 - US officials acknowledge that the present session of Congress
won't pass legislation for universal health insurance coverage, which
US President Bill Clinton made the centrepiece of his legislative
agenda.
1995 - The Communist Party in Russia starts a campaign that calls for
resurrection of the Soviet state that collapsed in 1991.
1996 - Former military strongman Chun Doo-hwan is sentenced to death
after being convicted of mutiny and treason in South Korea. His
successor, Roh Tae-woo, is also found guilty and sentenced to 22-1/2
years in prison. They were pardoned a year later.
1997 - South Africa's last white president, F W De Klerk, resigns as
head of the National Party and leaves politics.
1998 - A three-week-old rebellion reaches the outskirts of Congo's
capital Kinshasa, and hundreds of soldiers are wounded and killed.
1999 - Anti-independence militiamen rampage through Dili, the capital
of East Timor, raising doubts about the viability of an upcoming vote
on the Indonesian territory's future.
2000 - Somalis celebrate the election of Abdiqasim Salad Hassan,
their first president in nearly a decade; in a widely covered visit
to Africa US President Bill Clinton appealed to the leaders of
oil-rich Nigeria to set aside political acrimony and concentarte on
lifting its citizens out of poverty.
2001 - Ethnic Albanians rebels hand over machine-guns, mortar tubes
and other heavy weaponry on first day of a NATO mission to collect
arm's from Macedonia's militants.
2002 - US President George W Bush admits he is worried about the
economy's "paltry" growth and, without making promises, assures steel
company executives and workers that protecting domestic steel is a
national security priority.
2003 - Rwandan President Paul Kagame is the overwhelming winner of
presidential elections. The election was the first since the 1994
genocide.
The Mercury, Australia
Sunday Times, Australia
Advertiser, Australia
Aug 26 2004
On this day
26aug04
1896 - Armenian revolutionaries attack the Ottoman Bank in
Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6,000
Armenians die.
55BC - Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain.
580 - It is thought that toilet paper is invented by the Chinese.
1346 - A cannon is used for the first time in a European battle as
Edward III of England defeats Philip VI of France.
1541 - Suleiman I, Sultan of Turkey, takes Buda and annexes Hungary.
1847 - Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic.
1859 - Britain and Japan sign a commercial treaty.
1883 - A huge eruption of a volcano on Krakatoa island in the Sundra
Strait between Java and Sumatra continues. The two-day eruption and
associated tidal waves kill about 36,000 people and destroy
two-thirds of the island.
1883 - Cricket's Ashes trophy is created when a defeated English
captain is presented with an urn containing ashes of the 1882-3
stumps following Australia's victory.
1884 - A patent is granted to German immigrant Ottmar Mergenthaler
for the Linotype machine, which allowed mass production of
newspapers.
1896 - Insurrection begins in the Philippines against the Spanish;
Armenian revolutionaries attack the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople,
provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6,000 Armenians die.
1912 - The first Tarzan story by William Rice Burroughs appears in a
US magazine.
1913 - A Russian pilot, Lieutenant Peter Nesterov, is credited with
becoming the first person to perform the loop-the-loop.
1914 - More than 30,000 Russian troops are killed during WWII as they
are out-manoeuvred by German troops at the battle of Tannenberg.
1915 - German army captures Brest-Litovsk in Russia during World War
I.
1920 - The 19th Amendment to the American Constitution is ratified,
giving women the vote.
1930 - Death of US silent movie actor Lon Chaney who became known as
the man of a thousand faces.
1936 - Treaty ends British occupation of Egypt, except Suez Canal
zone, and Britain and Egypt form alliance for 20 years.
1937 - Japan blockades Chinese shipping; the first televised major
league baseball games is shown in the United States, a doubleheader
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
1942 - German army reaches Stalingrad in Soviet Union during World
War II.
1945 - Japanese envoys board US battleship Missouri to receive
surrender instructions at the end of World War II.
1947 - The UN Security Council passes a resolution for both the Dutch
and Indonesians to adhere to a ceasefire order.
1952 - Floods caused by monsoon rains inundate 90 per cent of Manila,
causing at least eight deaths. It is Manila's third flood in a month.
1957 - Soviet Union announces it has successfully tested an
intercontinental ballistic missile.
1959 - Chinese troops cross into India's north-eastern territory
after a border dispute.
1964 - Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, bans two black nationalist movements;
student and Buddhist riots force resignation of government of Premier
Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam.
1967 - Andreas Papandreou, former Greek cabinet minister and son of
ex-premier George Papandreou, is indicted on treason charges and
accused of leading the Aspid (Shield) army conspiracy.
1970 - North Vietnam sends its chief negotiator back to Vietnam peace
talks in Paris after an eight and a half month boycott of
negotiations.
1972 - The summer Olympics games open in Munich, West Germany; death
of British yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester.
1973 - The Cambodian military reports that Khmer Rouge rebel troops
had severed Phnom Penh's two vital supply roads - one leading to the
seaport and the other to rice fields.
1974 - Death of US aviator Charles Lindbergh.
1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice is elected as Pope John Paul
I.
1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin wrap up a two-day summit in Alexandria with the return
of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt scheduled for next April.
1982 - Argentine government lifts a ban on political parties.
1985 - A special French investigator issues a report clearing
France's Socialist government and the intelligence service of
involvement in the sinking of the Greenpeace protest vessel Rainbow
Warrior in Auckland harbour on July 10.
1988 - Nationwide strike paralyses government and transportation in
Burma and anti-government rallies spread; tens of thousands of civil
rights marchers gather in Washington, DC, on the eve of the 25th
anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
1990 - Number of US soldiers, airmen and sailors in the Gulf reaches
60,000.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev promises new national
elections after the signing of the Union Treaty, but there appears to
be little support for the treaty in the wake of a failed coup
attempt.
1992 - Serb militiamen pound Sarajevo with rockets and mortars,
setting fire to medieval Turkish baths and the main library in the
Bosnian capital.
1993 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 14 others are charged in the World
Trade Centre attack and New York bombing plot.
1994 - US officials acknowledge that the present session of Congress
won't pass legislation for universal health insurance coverage, which
US President Bill Clinton made the centrepiece of his legislative
agenda.
1995 - The Communist Party in Russia starts a campaign that calls for
resurrection of the Soviet state that collapsed in 1991.
1996 - Former military strongman Chun Doo-hwan is sentenced to death
after being convicted of mutiny and treason in South Korea. His
successor, Roh Tae-woo, is also found guilty and sentenced to 22-1/2
years in prison. They were pardoned a year later.
1997 - South Africa's last white president, F W De Klerk, resigns as
head of the National Party and leaves politics.
1998 - A three-week-old rebellion reaches the outskirts of Congo's
capital Kinshasa, and hundreds of soldiers are wounded and killed.
1999 - Anti-independence militiamen rampage through Dili, the capital
of East Timor, raising doubts about the viability of an upcoming vote
on the Indonesian territory's future.
2000 - Somalis celebrate the election of Abdiqasim Salad Hassan,
their first president in nearly a decade; in a widely covered visit
to Africa US President Bill Clinton appealed to the leaders of
oil-rich Nigeria to set aside political acrimony and concentarte on
lifting its citizens out of poverty.
2001 - Ethnic Albanians rebels hand over machine-guns, mortar tubes
and other heavy weaponry on first day of a NATO mission to collect
arm's from Macedonia's militants.
2002 - US President George W Bush admits he is worried about the
economy's "paltry" growth and, without making promises, assures steel
company executives and workers that protecting domestic steel is a
national security priority.
2003 - Rwandan President Paul Kagame is the overwhelming winner of
presidential elections. The election was the first since the 1994
genocide.