August 26th
Today in America's Present Past
1748 | Civil Rights: The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1791 | Entrepreneur John Fitch granted a patent for a steamboat.
1843 | Entrepreneur Charles Thurber patents a typewriter.
1863 | Civil War: Battle of Rocky Gap, West Virginia.
1873 | The first free kindergarten in the United States was started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, Missouri.
1871 | Publisher Charles Scribner died.
1874 | Civil Rights: 16 African Americans were kidnapped from Gibson County Jail and lynched in Trenton, Tennessee.
1874 | Author Zona Gale was born.
1884 | Author Earl Derr Biggers was born.
1898 | Philanthropist Peggy Guggenheim was born.
1901 | General Maxwell D. Taylor was born.
1910 | Psychologist William James died.
1918 | Mathematician Katherine Johnson was born.
1921 | Journalist Ben Bradlee was born.
1921 | Rosie the Riveter a.k.a.Naomi Parker Fraley was born.
1922 | Entrepreneur Jay Pritzker was born.
1927 | Entrepreneur Sam Massell was born.
1935 | Politician Geraldine Ferraro was born.
1937 | Entrepreneur Andrew Mellon died.
1950 | Entrepreneur Ransom Eli Olds died.
1970 | Comedian Melissa McCarthy was born.
1974 | Aviator Charles Lindbergh died.
1980 | Actor Maculey Culkin was born.
1981 | Activist Roger Nash Baldwin died.
1982 | Comedian John Mulaney was born.
1996 | POTUS: Democrat President Clinton signed Welfare Reform into law.
2018 | Playwright Neil Simon died.
2023 | TV personality Bob Barker died.