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August 26th, 2003	Event	Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
August 26th, 2002	Event	Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
August 26th, 1999	Event	Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
August 26th, 1997	Event	Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
August 26th, 1996	Event	Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
August 26th, 1988	Event	Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
August 26th, 1987	Event	President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
August 26th, 1983	Event	Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
August 26th, 1980	Event	John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
August 26th, 1978	Event	Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy.

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