Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 26

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 * 683 – Second Fitna: The Battle of al-Harra was fought between Umayyad forces and the rebel defenders of Medina at a lava field northeast of the city.
 * 1071 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert.
 * 1346 – Hundred Years' War: English forces established the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights at the Battle of Crécy (depicted).
 * 1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, was founded in Philadelphia.
 * 1768 – HMS Endeavour departed Plymouth, England, marking the start of the first voyage of explorer James Cook.
 * 1789 – French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly.
 * 1914 – World War I: As the British Expeditionary Force and French Fifth Army began their retreat from Mons, the British II Corps delayed the pursuing Germans at the Battle of Le Cateau long enough for the main force to escape.
 * 1914 – First World War: The German colony of Togoland surrendered to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
 * 1928 – At a cafe in Paisley, Scotland, a woman found the remains of a snail in her bottle of ginger beer, giving rise to the landmark civil action case Donoghue v Stevenson.
 * 1955 – Pather Panchali, the first film in The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, was released and went on to win many Indian and international film awards.
 * 1966 – The South African Defence Force launched an attack against SWAPO guerrilla fighters at Omugulugwombashe, starting the South African Border War.
 * 1968 – The U.S. Democratic Party's National Convention opened in Chicago, sparking four days of clashes between anti-Vietnam War protesters and police.
 * 1968 – The Beatles released "Hey Jude", which became the then-longest single to top the UK charts.
 * 1970 – Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 50,000 women protested the continuing lack of gender equality.
 * 1978 – Aboard the Soviet Soyuz 31 spacecraft, Sigmund Jähn (pictured) became the first German in space.
 * 2008 – After a ceasefire was reached in the Russo-Georgian War, Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
 * 2015 – Two American journalists were murdered on live television while conducting an interview in Moneta, Virginia.
 * Born/died: |  James Franck |b|1882| Sue Bailey Thurman |b|1903| Katherine Johnson |b|1918| Barbara Toomer |b|1929| Geraldine Ferraro |b|1935| Ralph Vaughan Williams |d|1958 Mildred Albert |d|1991| Frederick Reines |d|1998|Amelia Boynton Robinson |d|2015