About the day » Tuesday August 26, 1997Calender converter

• Nadya Ros, Deventer
• Amber Simone Flach, Woerden
• Julian Rijkelijkhuizen († 1997)

• Antoinet Elisa Ida Mathea NELISSEN (82)
• Aaltje Witteveen (87), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Dirk Van Dessel (23), Leuven
• Almer Jozef Cockhuyt (75), Brugge, WVL, B
• Dirkje Geertruida Oprel (59), Krabbendijke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus (Bob) Kaijen (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Bloemendal (26), Waal (Langerak), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bessie Marie Boswell (86), North Carolina
• Albert van Lingen (86), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bernardus Godefridus (Bert) van Wooning (80), Haarlem

• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
• 1987 » Juan Joseph, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1988 » Danielle Savre, American actress
• 1988 » Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1988 » Evan Ross, American actor
• 1988 » Lars Stindl, German football player
• 1988 » Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » James Harden, American basketball player
• 1990 » Mateo Musacchio, Argentinian footballer
• 1991 » Jessica Diggins, American cross-country skier

• 1991 » Mildred Albert, American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)
• 1995 » John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934)
• 1998 » Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)
• 2000 » Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)
• 2001 » Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
• 2001 » Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)
• 2003 » Jim Wacker, American football player and coach (b. 1937)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
• January 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
• March 18 » The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
• April 1 » Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
• July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
• November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

The temperature on August 26, 1997 was between 17.2 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.