^B{^#!16!26 August^N! Feast day of St Bergwine, archbishop of Canterbury, St John Wall, St Mary Desmaisieres, St Pandonia, and St Teresa Jornet Ihars.
^B{55 BC^B} Julius Caesar landed in Britain. ^B{1346^B} King Edward III, aided by the Black Prince, his son, defeated the French at the Battle of CrΘcy. ^B{1789^B} The French Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man. ^B{1846^B} Mendelssohn's oratorio ^I{Elijah^I} was first performed, Birmingham Festival. ^B{1883^B} Krakatoa, the island volcano, began erupting, killing thousands. ^B{1920^B} Women in the US were granted the right to vote. ^B{1936^B} The Anglo-Egyptian alliance was signed. ^B{1952^B} The USSR announced that it had successfully tested the ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile). ^B{1972^B} The XXth Olympic Games opened in Munich. ^B{1978^B} Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected Pope John Paul I.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Sir Robert Walpole, English statesman, ^B{1676^B}; Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria, ^B{1819^B}; Lee De Forest, US physicist, ^B{1873^B}; Jules Romains, French novelist, playwright and poet, ^B{1885^B}; Christopher Isherwood, English novelist, ^B{1904^B}.^B}
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Frans Hals, Dutch painter, ^B{1666^B}; Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist and microscopist, Louis Philippe, 'Citizen King' of France, ^B{1850^B}; Charles Lindbergh, US pioneer aviator, ^B{1974^B}; Charles Boyer, French actor, ^B{1978^B}.
