August 26
People born on this day are Virgo.
- 1981
Aeropesca Flight 221 crashes in Colombia's Huila Department, killing all 50 people on board.
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Sakha Avia Flight 301 crashes on approach to Aldan Airport, killing all 24 aboard.
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The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X communications satellite.
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Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
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A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, killing both pilots on board.
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Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years. Her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, are apprehended.
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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.
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The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.
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Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.
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During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.
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Exactly five years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, leaving three people dead.
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A series of large flash floods and debris flows along the Nepal–Tibet border and the Trishuli River, believed to have been caused by glacier collapse, stuck and destroyed numerous settlements, including the Gyirong checkpoint, and killed over 1,400 people, with over 5,800 reported missing.
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2006Victoria Mboko, Canadian tennis player
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2002Lil Tecca, American rapper
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2001Patrick Williams, American basketball player
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2000Kyren Williams, American football player
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1999Rosa, former sea otter at Monterey Bay Aquarium
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1999Naz Reid, American basketball player
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1999Kotoshoho Yoshinari, Japanese sumo wrestler
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1998Charlie Gillespie, Canadian actor and singer
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1998Jeon Soyeon, Korean rapper and record producer
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1997Cordae, American rapper
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1995Anthony Duclair, Canadian ice hockey player
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1995Ranger Suárez, Venezuelan baseball player
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