What day of the week was August 26, 1940?

The day of the week August 26th, 1940 fell on was a Monday.

Don LaFontaine the American voice actor (d. 2008) was born on 26 August in 1940. As was Nik Turner the English singer-songwriter and saxophonist (Hawkwind, Inner City Unit, and Space Ritual) .

Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué the France's first black colonial governor.