Today is Monday, August 26, the 239th day of the yr 2024. There are 127 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On August 26, 1944, French General Charles de Gaulle defied the specter of German snipers as he led a victory march through Paris, which had just been liberated from Nazi occupation by the Allies.
Also on this date:
In 1939, the primary televised major league baseball games were shown on the experimental station W2XBS: a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The Reds won the primary game 5-2, the Dodgers won the second 6-1.
In 1968, the Democratic Party Convention opened in Chicago. The four-day event, which led to the nomination of Hubert H. Humphrey as presidential candidate, was marked by a bloody police crackdown on anti-war demonstrators within the streets.
In 1972, the Summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.
In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani (al-BEE'-noh loo-CHYAH'-nee) of Venice was elected pope after the death of Paul VI. The latest pontiff, who took the name Pope John Paul I, died just over a month later.
In 1980, the FBI unintentionally detonated a bomb that had been planted on the Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, while attempting to defuse it. (The hotel had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.)
In 1985, 13-year-old AIDS patient Ryan White began “attending” classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana, via a telephone connection from home because the varsity administration had prohibited White from attending classes in person as a consequence of his illness.
In 2009, kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was found alive in California after being missing for greater than 18 years.
In 2022, an FBI affidavit showed that 14 of the 15 boxes seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate contained classified documents, a lot of them top secret, mixed in with various newspapers, magazines and private correspondence.
Today's birthdays:
- John Tinniswood, the oldest known living man on the planet, is 112 years old.
- Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is 79.
- R&B singer Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson) is 78.
- Broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker is 73.
- Puzzle creator/editor Will Shortz is 72.
- Jazz musician Branford Marsalis is 64.
- Actress and singer Shirley Manson (Garbage) is 58.
- Actress Melissa McCarthy is 54.
- Latin pop singer Thalia is 53.
- Actor Macaulay Culkin is 44.
- Actor Chris Pine is 44.
- Comedian/actor/author John Mulaney is 42.
- Country musician Brian Kelley (Florida Georgia Line) is 39.
- NBA guard James Harden is 35.
- Actor Dylan O'Brien is 33.
- Actor Keke Palmer is 31.
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