Historical Events for 26th August 2022

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1071 - Battle of Manzikert: Seljuq Turks led by sultan Alp Arslan beat and capture Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
1545 - Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese as Duke of Parma
1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate
1939 - 1st major league baseball telecast on W2XBS- Cincinnati Reds defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1967 - Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1974 - Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1986 - Robert Chambers, the "Preppie Killer" murders Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, afterwards claimed "rough sex" as motive
1995 - Brian Lara completes his 7th Test Cricket century, scoring 179 at The Oval in London
1999 - Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2017 - Hurricane Harvey downgraded to a tropical storm, National Hurricane Center warns of “multiday rainfall disaster”

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