On This Day
26 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1303 Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khilji defeats Rana Bhim Singh and captures Chittorgarh, capital of the Guhila Kingdom.
- 1910 Nobel Peace Prize-awarded Mother Teresa was born in Skopji, Yugoslavia.
- 1975 Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar, a freedom fighter, journalist and Padma Bhushan, died.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1429 In preparation for an attack on Paris, part of Charles VII's campaign to drive the English from French soil, Joan of Arc and her soldiers reached the city's outskirts on this day in 1429, but the assault ultimately failed.
- 1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley first observes the comet named after him. Halley's comet is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years.
- 1873 First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1883 A massive volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia blew up most of the island and resulted in tsunamis.
- 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution of the United States, giving women the right to vote.
- 1936 The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty established Egypt as a sovereign state after 50 years of British occupation.
- 1994 A man is given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain.
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