What events are going on August 26, 2006?

Question

It is my dad's 37th B-Day. We wanna do something that includes live music.

ZIP code 60514

Answer 1

August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining.
Events

* 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain
* 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
* 1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
* 1303 - Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor
* 1346 - Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
* 1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.
* 1778 - The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia.
* 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles
* 1839 - The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
* 1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
* 1862 - American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
* 1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
* 1914 - World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg.
* 1914 - World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
* 1914 - World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
* 1920 - 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
* 1939 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
* 1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
* 1944 - World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
* 1957 - The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM - a "super longdistance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to Tass Soviet News Agency.
* 1968 - Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois
* 1968 - The Beatles' "Hey Jude" is released as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label.
* 1970 - The third annual Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last U.K. performance from Jimi Hendrix, opens in Great Britain.
* 1972 - Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
* 1976 - Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1978 - Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy.
* 1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
* 1986 - Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.
* 1987 - President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
* 1988 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
* 1995 - The International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of Rugby Union, thus bringing the game's amateur age to an end.
* 1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
* 2002 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converts his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
* 2002 - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
* 2003 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
* 2005 - Fiji's High Court rules that the island's sodomy law is unconstitutional.
* 2005 - Jean Michel Jarre's "Space of Freedom" concert in Gdańsk, Poland

Births

* 1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
* 1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
* 1676 - Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
* 1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
* 1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
* 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
* 1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
* 1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
* 1850 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
* 1862 - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
* 1873 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)
* 1874 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
* 1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
* 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
* 1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
* 1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
* 1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
* 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
* 1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
* 1901 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
* 1901 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
* 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)
* 1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
* 1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
* 1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
* 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist
* 1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
* 1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
* 1934 - Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
* 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
* 1936 - Yvette Vickers, American actress
* 1940 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor
* 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
* 1941 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
* 1942 - Vic Dana, American singer
* 1942 - Dennis Turner, British politician
* 1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
* 1945 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
* 1946 - Valerie Simpson, American singer
* 1946 - Mark Snow, American composer
* 1946 - Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People's Republic of China
* 1952 - Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1952 - Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor
* 1953 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
* 1956 - Brett Cullen, American actor
* 1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian singer
* 1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
* 1965 - Chris Burke, American actor
* 1965 - Jon Hensley, American actor
* 1966 - Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
* 1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
* 1969 - Brian Schulenburg, American pastor, writer and speaker
* 1971 - Thalía, Mexican actress
* 1977 - Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyuu
* 1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
* 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American actor
* 1982 - Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
* 1988 - Ash Griffith, American graphic novelist and guitarist
* 1993 - Keke Palmer, African-American actress

Answer 2

it is sort of hard to answer that question without knowing where you are living or even some area around you ... not sure if you would be willing to travel two days for something that is going on this saturday ? :P

Answer 3

my birtsday also 26 august I will be also 37

Answer 4

have a music b day party some were

Answer 5

Do what your dad likes.

Answer 6

o well i dont no but im getting my hair cut and styled at 11:30!!! im sooooo excited!

Answer 7

michigan state fair