Today in History
August 26
| 1071 | | Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manzikert, Eastern Turkey |
| 1429 | | Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris. |
| 1883 | | The Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupts in the largest explosion recorded in history, heard 2,200 miles away in Madagascar. The resulting destruction sends volcanic ash up 50 miles into the atmosphere and kills almost 36,000 people–both on the island itself and from the resulting 131-foot tidal waves that obliterate 163 villages on the shores of nearby Java and Sumatra. |
| 1978 | | Albino Luciani elected to the Papacy and chooses the name Pope John Paul I ; his 33-day reign is among the shortest in Papal history. |
| 1978 | | Sigmund Jähn becomes first German to fly in space, on board Soviet Soyuz 31.
On this day in 1980, Macaulay Culkin, the star of the Home Alone movies and the most successful child actor of his generation, is born in New York City. |
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