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[edit] August 26:
- 1942 - Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot.
- 1978 - Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy.
