As we speak is Monday, Aug. 26, the 239th day of 2024. There are 127 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On Aug. 26, 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.
Additionally on this date:
In 1939, the primary televised main league baseball video games had been proven on experimental station W2XBS: a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Discipline. The Reds gained the primary recreation, 5-2, the Dodgers the second, 6-1.
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 season Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.
In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani (al-BEE’-noh loo-CHYAH’-nee) of Venice was elected pope following the loss of life 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 Lodge in Stateline, Nevada whereas making an attempt to disarm it. (The resort had been evacuated and no accidents had been reported.)
In 1985, 13-year-old AIDS affected person Ryan White started “attending” courses at Western Center Faculty in Kokomo, Indiana by way of a phone hook-up at his house, as faculty officers had barred White from attending courses in particular person resulting from his sickness.
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 categorised paperwork, lots of them high secret, blended in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and private correspondence.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- John Tinniswood, the world’s oldest verified dwelling man, is 112.
- Former Homeland Safety Secretary Tom Ridge is 79.
- R&B singer Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson) is 78.
- Broadcast journalist Invoice Whitaker is 73.
- Puzzle creator/editor Will Shortz is 72.
- Jazz musician Branford Marsalis is 64.
- Actor-singer Shirley Manson (Rubbish) is 58.
- Actor Melissa McCarthy is 54.
- Latin pop singer Thalia is 53.
- Actor Macaulay Culkin is 44.
- Actor Chris Pine is 44.
- Comic/actor/author John Mulaney is 42.
- Nation 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.