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ON THIS DAY - 26AUG05
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Advertiser Adelaide, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Aug 26 2005
1896 - Armenian revolutionaries attack the Ottoman Bank in
Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6000
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.
1883 - A massive 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 some 36,000 people and
destroy two-thirds of the island.
1883 - Cricket's Ashes trophy is created when a winning England
captain is presented with an urn containing the ashes of a bail from
the 1882-1883 wickets after victory over Australia.
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 6000 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 the following April.
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.
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 current 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 22½
years in prison. They were pardoned a year later.
1997 - South Africa's last white president, FW 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 concentrate 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.
2004 - Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,
makes a dramatic return to Najaf and swiftly wins agreement from a
rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting
between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
--Boundary_(ID_yTlUOSSvRNjCTntmAJ2rDg)--
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Advertiser Adelaide, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Aug 26 2005
1896 - Armenian revolutionaries attack the Ottoman Bank in
Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6000
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.
1883 - A massive 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 some 36,000 people and
destroy two-thirds of the island.
1883 - Cricket's Ashes trophy is created when a winning England
captain is presented with an urn containing the ashes of a bail from
the 1882-1883 wickets after victory over Australia.
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 6000 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 the following April.
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.
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 current 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 22½
years in prison. They were pardoned a year later.
1997 - South Africa's last white president, FW 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 concentrate 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.
2004 - Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,
makes a dramatic return to Najaf and swiftly wins agreement from a
rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting
between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
--Boundary_(ID_yTlUOSSvRNjCTntmAJ2rDg)--