Right this moment is Tuesday, Aug. 26, the 238th day of 2025. There are 127 days left within the 12 months.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Aug. 26, 1985, 13-year-old AIDS affected person Ryan White started “attending” courses at Western Center College in Kokomo, Indiana through a phone hook-up at his residence, as college officers had barred White from attending courses in individual as a result of his sickness.
Additionally on this date:
In 1939, the primary televised main league baseball video games have been broadcast on experimental station W2XBS: a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Area. The Reds gained the primary recreation, 5-2, and the Dodgers the second, 6-1.
In 1944, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the specter of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had simply been liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation.
In 1958, Alaskans went to the polls to overwhelmingly vote in favor of statehood.
In 1968, the Democratic Nationwide Conference opened in Chicago; the four-day occasion that resulted within the nomination of Hubert H. Humphrey for president was marked by a bloody police crackdown on antiwar protesters within the streets.
In 1972, the summer time Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.
In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani (al-BEE’-noh loo-CHYAH’-nee) of Venice was elected pope following the demise of Paul VI. The brand new pontiff, who took the identify Pope John Paul I, died simply over a month later.
In 1980, the FBI inadvertently detonated a bomb planted at Harvey’s Resort Resort in Stateline, Nevada, whereas trying to disarm it. (The resort had been evacuated and no accidents have been reported however the blast prompted important harm.)
In 2009, kidnapping sufferer Jaycee Dugard was found alive in California after being lacking for greater than 18 years.
In 2022, an affidavit launched by the FBI confirmed that 14 of the 15 packing containers recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida property contained categorized paperwork, lots of them prime secret, combined in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and private correspondence.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Former Homeland Safety Secretary Tom Ridge is 80.
- R&B singer Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson) is 79.
- Broadcast journalist Invoice Whitaker is 74.
- Puzzle creator/editor Will Shortz is 73.
- Jazz musician Branford Marsalis is 65.
- Actor-singer Shirley Manson (Rubbish) is 59.
- Actor Melissa McCarthy is 55.
- Latin pop singer Thalia is 54.
- Actor Macaulay Culkin is 45.
- Actor Chris Pine is 45.
- Comic/actor/author John Mulaney is 43.
- Nation musician Brian Kelley (Florida Georgia Line) is 40.
- NBA guard James Harden is 36.
- Actor Dylan O’Brien is 34. Actor Keke Palmer is 32.