August 26

Events

 * 1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
 * 1938 - A tape recorder was used for the first time in the U.S. to send a radio broadcast.
 * 1967 - Jimi Hendrix's 'Purple Haze' released in US

Births

 * 1873 -, American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube.(d. 1961)
 * 1903 - (Mr Five by Five)
 * 1926 - (Dance with Me Henry)
 * 1941 - (Searchers)
 * 1942 -, American singer
 * 1944 -, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
 * 1946 -, American singer
 * 1946 -, Quebec singer and actress
 * 1954 - (DJ)
 * 1957 -, Nigerian-Swedish singer
 * 1957 - (Undertones)
 * 1966 - (Counting Crows)
 * 1969 - (No Doubt)
 * 1971 -, Mexican singer
 * 1976 -, Russian singer
 * 1986 -, American singer
 * 1990 -, British singer

Deaths

 * 1958 –, English composer (b. 1872)
 * 1981 –, American folksinger (b. 1914)
 * 1988 –, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
 * 2004 –, American singer (b. 1957)
 * 2005 –, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)