On a 26th of August, but in 1789, the Constituent Assembly of France approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, one of the milestones of the French Revolution.
OTHER ANNIVERSARIES
1810.- The governor of Córdoba (Argentina), Juan Gutiérrez de la Concha, and three other authorities are executed for opposing the independence movement from Spain.
1896.- Andrés Bonifacio gives the independence shout of the Philippines and begins the fight against Spanish rule.
1936.- The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) makes its first test broadcasts of TV with the Baird system.
.- Egypt obtains full independence from Great Britain and agrees on a provisional ‘status’ of the Suez Canal.
1957.- The USSR successfully tests the launch of intercontinental rockets.
1961.- Burma becomes the first Buddhist republic in the world.
1977.- The National Assembly of Quebec (Canada) imposes the use of French in the Administration.
1978.- Cardinal Albino Luciani, archbishop of Venice, is elected Pope with the name John Paul I.
2004.- The Supreme Court of Chile strips Pinochet of immunity for the crimes of Operation Condor.
2015.- Preventive detention for the former vice president of Guatemala Roxana Baldetti, accused of leading a criminal network of customs fraud known as “The Line”.
2020.- The Nature magazine publishes that, according to the University of Arizona, the average temperature of the last glacial period (20,000 years ago) was 6 degrees Celsius lower than today.
2021.- The Cablebús line 2 of Mexico City receives the Guinness record for being the longest interurban cable car in the world with its 10.55 kilometers in length.
2025.- The American actress Jennifer Lawrence, Donostia Award at the 73rd San Sebastián Film Festival.
BIRTHS
1743.- Antoine L. Lavoisier, French chemist.
1818.- Ignacio de la Llave, liberal general and governor of Veracruz (Mexico).
1880.- Guillaume Apollinaire, Italo-Polish French poet.
1898.- Peggy Guggenheim, American collector and patron.
1906.- Albert Sabin, doctor and discoverer of the polio vaccine.
1910.- Agnes Gonxha ‘Mother Teresa of Calcutta’, Albanian nun, Nobel Peace Prize 1979.
1912.- José María Velasco, Mexican painter.
1914.- Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer.
1971.- Thalía, Mexican actress and singer.
DEATHS
1930.- Lon Chaney, American actor.
1974.- Charles Lindbergh, American aviation pioneer.
2005.- Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party of Ulster.
2017.- Alicia Juárez, Mexican singer.
2018.- John McCain, American Republican senator and former presidential candidate.
2020.- Joseph “Joe” Ruby, creator of the animated series ‘Scooby-Doo’.
2025.- Manuel de la Calva, Spanish singer and music producer, member of the Dúo Dinámico.
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