Today is Tuesday, Aug. 26, the 238th day of 2025. There are 127 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 26, 1985, 13-year-old AIDS patient Ryan White began “attending” classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana via a telephone hook-up at his home, as school officials had barred White from attending classes in person due to his illness.
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In 1939, the first televised major league baseball games were broadcast on experimental station W2XBS: a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The Reds won the first game, 5-2, and the Dodgers the second, 6-1.
In 1944, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had just 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 National Convention opened in Chicago; the four-day event that resulted in the nomination of Hubert H. Humphrey for president was marked by a bloody police crackdown on antiwar protesters in the streets.
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Protesters lob back tear gas canisters thrown by Chicago police in Grant Park in 1968.
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Delegates on the Democratic National Convention floor chant “Stop the war” after a speech by Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy’s press secretary, on Aug. 28, 1968. Salinger urged adoption of the dove plank on the Vietnam War.
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Demonstrators opposed to the Vietnam War picket Aug. 26, 1968, outside the Democratic National Convention at the International Amphitheatre. Police barricades keep the protesters across the street. One square mile around the amphitheater was declared a maximum security zone.
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The Illinois delegation prays during opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 26, 1968.
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A big welcome sign will greet delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention starting at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago.
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A disturbance on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28, 1968, in Chicago.
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Fred Susinski, a police cadet, and patrolman Bernard Dorken work the communications equipment at the command post at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago on Aug. 16, 1968. The post coordinated security for the convention.
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Delegates lift their placards for Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a premature demonstration for the presidential nominee in August 1968.
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A poster from the Democratic National Convention in 1968 in Chicago.
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A disturbance on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28, 1968.
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A Georgia delegate is grabbed by security after he tried to lift one of the state standards on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 27, 1968, at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago.
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The Illinois delegation enters the convention hall floor holding Daley for president signs Aug. 26, 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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People hold signs that say “We love Mayor Daley” on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 29, 1968, in Chicago.
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A TV crew, wearing helmets, on the convention floor at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 29, 1968.
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Delegates from New York protest on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 26, 1968.
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Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, left, and his running mate, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, stand before Democratic National Convention delegates in 1968 in Chicago.
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While the convention was in Chicago, police officers and anti-war protesters clashed in downtown Chicago and in Lincoln Park, shown here, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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Anti-war protesters march outside the Hilton Hotel in downtown Chicago while the Democratic National Convention was in town in 1968.
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Chicago police in position outside the Hilton during the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
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Police hold an anti-war protester over the hood of a car in front of the Conrad Hilton in 1968.
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Tribune photographer Michael Budrys wrote on this historic print that “Troops arrive to Grant Park and within minutes virtually replace city police. Hippies remain in park singing spiritual songs by sound of strings. Michigan Ave. blocked to traffic by milling people and newsmen from around the globe.”
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Each night, Chicago police cleared Lincoln Park, where demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention gathered during the day. Sometimes the police used canisters of tear gas, as shown here on Aug. 27, 1968. Sometimes, they used physical force.
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The National Guard confronts anti-war protesters in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention in August 1968. (Walter Kale/Chicago Tribune)
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Felled by a rock thrown from ranks of protesters, a bystander lies on the ground bleeding from a head wound as other protesters rushed to his aid during the Democratic National Convention rioting in 1968.
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Protesters are surrounded by the National Guard at 18th Street and Michigan Avenue during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 29, 1968.
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Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march down Michigan Avenue in one of the peaceful events of the 1968 Democratic National Convention week, which attracted thousands of young protestors to the city. The group of “Yippies” marched outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel, one of two major convention hotels, on Aug. 25, 1968.
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A young anti-war demonstrator confronts National Guardsmen who formed a barricade to keep protesters in Grant Park during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.
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Demonstrators sleep before the next night’s confrontation with police and guardsmen in 1968. The original caption from the Tribune photographer reads: “This is what the yippees do before their night’s activities.”
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Protesters as well as police braced for trouble during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Here, anti-Vietnam War demonstrators gather in Lincoln Park for self-defense lessons on Aug. 20, 1968. The demonstrators were part of the National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam organization. They held daily self-defense practice.
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Lights from a fire truck brighten tear gas clouds and silhouette police officers confronting anti-war protesters in Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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The original caption from photographer Michael Budrys reads, “Some five thousand hippies infiltrated Grant Park, shouting at police, burning draft cards, and setting off firecrackers. Police stood by like a massive wall, keeping youths off the walk.”
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Demonstrators gather around the General Logan monument in Grant Park in 1968, to listen to speeches protesting police actions during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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A man is arrested after climbing the Gen. Logan statue in Grant Park during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.
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Anti-war demonstrators in Grant Park pile up benches as a barricade in a clash with police, who had moved in to prevent them from tearing down the American flag in 1968.
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An injured protester gets aid after being tear-gassed during the Democratic National Convention riots in 1968 in Chicago.
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Wielding a club, a protester joins others in an attack upon an unmarked Chicago police car during clashes in Grant Park in 1968.
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National Guardsmen, protesters and journalists stand their ground on Michigan Avenue in 1968.
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A demonstrator injured in a clash with police in Lincoln Park is carried from the scene on a stretcher by fellow demonstrators wearing medical armbands in 1968. Protesters set up their own unofficial first-aid stations.
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A spectator who apparently was struck Aug. 26, 1968, sits on the sidelines during a news conference the following day by the National Mobilization Committee, which called for an end to the war in Vietnam.
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Anti-war protesters gather in Grant Park surrounded by police during the Democratic National Convention rioting in 1968 in Chicago.
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A ball of nails thrown by anti-war protesters in Chicago during the demonstrations in 1968.
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National Guardsmen donned gas masks before confronting anti-war protesters in Chicago in 1968.
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Protesters lob back tear gas canisters thrown by Chicago police in Grant Park in 1968.
In 1972, the summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.
In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected pope following the death of Paul VI. The new pontiff, who took the name Pope John Paul I, died just over a month later.
In 1980, the FBI inadvertently detonated a bomb planted at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, while attempting to disarm it. (The hotel had been evacuated and no injuries were reported but the blast caused significant damage.)
In 2009, kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California after being missing for more than 18 years.
In 2022, an affidavit released by the FBI showed that 14 of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence.
Today’s Birthdays: Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is 80. R&B singer Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson) is 79. Broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker is 74. Puzzle creator/editor Will Shortz is 73. Jazz musician Branford Marsalis is 65. Actor-singer Shirley Manson (Garbage) is 59. Actor Melissa McCarthy is 55. Latin pop singer Thalia is 54. Actor Macaulay Culkin is 45. Actor Chris Pine is 45. Comedian/actor/writer John Mulaney is 43. Country 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.
