Event:
Burger King Worldwide Inc. will purchase Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons Inc. and move its headquarters to Canada; Burger King will pay a little over $11 billion in U.S. dollars, and the merger will create the third-largest global fast food company
More Notable Events on August 26:
1972 20th Olympic games open at Munich, West Germany
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson nominated at Democratic convention
1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
1920 19th amendment passes - women's suffrage granted
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
