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- 1861
- A post office opens at Sydenham near Melbourne, Victoria.
- 1878
- The New York City Elevated Railway and IRT Third Avenue Line open for revenue service.
- 1931
- The Cagayan Bridge is inaugurated in Cagayan de Misamis in the Philippines.
- 1942
- A statue of Berolina is dismantled after standing in Berlin's Alexanderplatz for 14 years.
- 1992
- The Gore Hill Freeway opens to traffic in New South Wales.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 26, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 26 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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