August 26 has been marked by several significant historical and technological milestones. In the United States, the 19th Amendment was officially certified in 1920, prohibiting the denial of voting rights based on sex.
Technological and cultural developments on this date include the first televised Major League Baseball game in 1939, the production of the first Ford Edsel in 1957, and the 1895 commencement of large-scale hydroelectric power generation at Niagara Falls. Other notable events include the 1791 patenting of John Fitch’s steamboat and the 1873 authorization of the first public kindergarten program in St. Louis.
In colonial India, August 26, 1914, saw the Rodda & Company arms heist in Calcutta, where Bengali revolutionaries intercepted a major shipment of Mauser pistols and ammunition.