August 26, AIDS patient begins school via phone hook-up
Today is Tuesday, August 26, the 238th day of 2025. There are 127 days in the year.
Today in history:
On August 26, 1985, the 13 -year -old AIDS patient Ryan White began to “follow” courses at Western Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana, by a connection by telephone at his home, because school officials had prevented White from taking courses in person due to his illness.
Also on this date:
In 1939, the first television matches of the Major Baseball League were broadcast on the W2XBS experimental station: a double head between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers in Ebbets Field. The Reds won the first match, 5-2, and the Dodgers the second, 6-1.
In 1944, French general Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German elite shooters when he led a victory march in Paris, which had just been released by the allies of the Nazi occupation.
In 1958, the Alaskians went to the polls to vote massively in favor of the State.
In 1968, the National Democratic Convention opened in Chicago; The four-day event that led to the appointment of Hubert H. Humphrey to the presidency was marked by a bloody police repression against the anti-war demonstrators in the streets.
In 1972, the Summer Olympic Games 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 new pontiff, who took the name of Pope John Paul I, died just over a month later.
In 1980, the FBI inadvertently exploded a bomb planted at the Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, while trying to disarm it. (The hotel had been evacuated and no injury was reported, but the explosion caused significant damage.)
In 2009, the abduction of victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California after being missing for more than 18 years.
In 2022, an affidavit published by the FBI showed that 14 of the 15 boxes recovered from the Florida domain of former President Donald Trump contained classified documents, including many top secret, mixed with various newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence.
Today’s birthdays:
- The former interior security secretary, Tom Ridge, is 80 years old.
- The singer R&B Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson) is 79 years old.
- The broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker is 74 years old.
- Puzzle Creator / Editor Will Shortz is 73.
- The jazz musician Branford Marsalis is 65 years old.
- The actor-singer Shirley Manson (garbage) is 59 years old.
- Actor Melissa McCarthy is 55 years old.
- Latin pop singer Thalia is 54 years old.
- The actor Macaulay Culkin is 45 years old.
- The actor Chris Pine is 45.
- The actor / actor / writer John Mulaney is 43 years old.
- Country musician Brian Kelley (Florida Georgia Line) is 40 years old.
- NBA goalkeeper James Harden is 36 years old.
- The actor Dylan O’Brien is 34 years old. Actor Keke Palmer is 32 years old.
