Hi! Thanks for the question. In fact I had fun trying to answer this
one.
The most popular event that happened that year was the passage of the
women’s right to vote or the 19th Amendment. So Your Mom was born on a
historic day for American women.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa081700a.htm
You can view a 1920s women’s suffrage stamp here
(http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/usonline/stamps/1920sstamps.htm)
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Baseball Scores of August 26, 2002
Brooklyn Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 3 at Wrigley Field
Philadelphia Phillies 7, Cincinnati Reds 0 at Crosley Field
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Boston Braves 1 at Forbes Field
St. Louis Cardinals 2, New York Giants 1 at Sportsman's Park III
St. Louis Browns 8, Boston Red Sox 0 at Fenway Park
Chicago White Sox 16, New York Yankees 4 at Polo Grounds V
Philadelphia Athletics 3, Cleveland Indians 2 at Shibe Park
Washington Senators 3, Detroit Tigers 2 at Griffith Stadium
Detroit Tigers 5, Washington Senators 4 at Griffith Stadium
Baseball Library Website
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/1920AUGUST.stm
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This is from the history of the Sacred Heart Hospital in Wisconsin.
“The first class, totaling seven, graduated on August 26, 1920.”
http://www.sacredhearthospital-ec.org/history.html
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Leon Trotsky was considered a Soviet warlord and this order was made
during its war with Poland.
THE MILITARY WRITINGS OF LEON TROTSKY Order made on Aug. 26, 1920
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1920-mil/ch62.htm
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The Opening of the of the National Park-to-Park Highway (Aug. 26,
1920)
“One of the most notable accomplishments of the good-roads movement,
in relation to the national parks, was the August 1920 establishment
and designation of a great, connected highway between the major
national parks of the Far West. The purpose of the National
Park-to-Park Highway was three-fold: 1) to make scenic areas more
accessible to the public, 2) to aid further development of the West by
bringing its industrial resources to the attention of the traveling
public, and 3) to attract new settlement. The National Park-to-Park
Highway Association (NPPHA) accomplished the undertaking, in
cooperation with the American Automobile Association (AAA) and other
western organizations. The official designation tour began in Denver,
Colorado, on August 26, 1920, "at which time," Stephen Mather
reported, "I formally dedicated the National Park-to-Park Highway with
appropriate ceremonies to the American people." [339] The
4,700-mile-long circle tour passed through nine western states,
crossed every main transcontinental highway and touched most of the
north and south highways west of the Rocky Mountains. The only parks
in the southwest included on this route were Mesa Verde, Petrified
Forest, and the Grand Canyon's South Rim. Mather envisioned the
Park-to-Park Highway as "but a nucleus of a great interpark road
system which will be developed later on."
The Impact of Auto Touring on Utah's Southern Parks and the Arizona
Strip
http://www.nps.gov/pisp/adhi/adhi2a.htm
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August 26, 2002
“Formation of the Autonomous Kyrghyz (Kazak) Soviet Socialist Republic
with the capital in Orenburg.”
http://members.tripod.com/~kz2000/history/akaz2.html
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“James "Tama Jim" Wilson died August 26, 1920 in Traer, Iowa”
“Some historians consider James Wilson the greatest of all U.S.
secretaries of agriculture. In tenure and accomplishment, he set
records that have never been equaled. Wilson was born August 16, 1835
in Ayrshire, Scotland, near the farm rented by Robert Burns 50 years
earlier. He was one of 14 children. His parents came to the U. S. in
1852, settling in Connecticut before moving to Tama County, Iowa,
three years later.”
“He revolutionized American agriculture by extending the U.S.
Department of Agriculture into many areas. He established the
extension service, began U.S. world leadership in agricultural
science, inaugurated programs in agricultural economics, farm credit,
soil conservation, and reforestation. He expanded facilities for
research in plant disease and insect control and began a complex of
experimental fields and laboratories at Beltsville, Md., that is known
as one of the world’s greatest research facilities.”
JAMES WILSON (1835-1920)
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/james_wilson.htm
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Motorcycling History
From the owner of the article: “The following article concerns a race
few people know of today. It started in Canada and went through the
Western USA finishing in Mexico.”
Swan Song of the Three Flag
A Study in Men And Machines that Made a Thrilling Chapter in
Motorcycle History.
http://www.motorcycleshopper.com/articles/swansong.htm
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