34th calendar week, 238th day of the year, 127 days until the end of the yearZodiac sign: VirgoName day: Gregory, Teresa
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What happened on August 26th?
2013 – Bard Offshore 1, the largest German offshore wind farm to date, is opened in the North Sea near Borkum. 80 turbines with an output of 400 megawatts were installed for the project.
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2008 – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recognizes the independence of Georgia’s breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This move has met with fierce international criticism.
2003 – The aristocratic house of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach waived claims for the return of large parts of the Goethe and Schiller archives, the inventory of the Wartburg in Eisenach and the Weimar princely crypt against Thuringia. In return, the Princely House will receive 15.5 million euros.
1993 – Nigeria’s military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, officially hands over power to a civilian transitional government after eight years. Businessman Ernest Shonekan is sworn in as head of government in the capital Abuja. However, in November 1993, General Sani Abacha seized power.
1978 – Albino Luciani is in Rome as John Paul I. to succeed Pope Paul VI, who died on August 6th. chosen. He dies just 33 days after his election.
1978 – On board the Soviet spaceship “Soyuz 31”, the GDR officer Sigmund Jähn is the first German to take off into space.
1938 – The Trans-Iranian Railway opens to traffic after eight years of construction.
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1768 – The British navigator James Cook embarks on his first world voyage from Plymouth. In June 1771 he returns.
1648 – Three parliamentarians are arrested in France, sparking three days of “barricades” – a popular uprising against Cardinal Mazarin’s government – in Paris.
Celebrity Birthdays: Who Was Born on August 26th?
1963 – Ludger Beerbaum (60), German show jumper, individual Olympic champion in 1992, team Olympic champion in 1988, 1996 and 2000
1948 – Rotraut Susanne Berner (75), German children’s book author and illustrator, successful with the “Wimmelbuch” series, among other things, German youth literature prize 2006 for her complete works
1933 – Rainer Erler (90), German film director, writer and film producer, books and film templates: “Fleisch”, “The Last Holiday”, “The Source”
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1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor, pianist and theater manager, artistic director and director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich 1982-92, director of the Philadelphia Orchestra 1993-2003, died 2013
1898 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector and patron, niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, founder of the museum of the same name in New York, died 1979
Celebrity Death Days: Who Died on August 26th?
2018 – Neil Simon, American playwright (plays Odd Couple, Sonny Boys, Barefoot in the Park), Pulitzer Prize 1991, born 1927
2013 – Wolfgang Herrndorf, German writer (“Tschick”, “Sand”), born 1965
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