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1997 – America Online acquired CompuServe.

1860 – American painter Anna Mary (Robertson Moses) was born in New York. Today it is known as “Grandma Moses Day.”

1878 – Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.

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1980 – Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.

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1918 – Fanny Dora Kaplan fired three shots at Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in an assassination attempt.

1957 – Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

1907 – “American Messenger Company” was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The companies name was later changed to “United Parcel Service.”

1938 – Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish.

1973 – A U.S. Presidential Proclamation was declared that made August 26th Women’s Equality Day.

1940 – Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward were married while suspended in parachutes at the World’s Fair in New York City.