August 26
Tuesday 26, 1986:
Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
Saturday 26, 1978:
Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
Saturday 26, 1972:
Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
Monday 26, 1957:
a "super longdistance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to Tass Soviet News Agency.
Friday 26, 1498:
Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
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