TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Saturday, Aug. 26, the 238th day of 2017. There are 127 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women’s right to vote, was certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
On this date
1789 — France’s National Assembly adopted its Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. 1817 — The University of Michigan was founded. 1939 — The first tele- vised major league baseball games were shown on experi- mental station W2XBS: a double-header between the Cincin- nati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. (The Reds won the first game, 5-2, the Dodgers the second, 6-1.) 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. 1956 — Black high school students of Rome and Floyd County would occupy a modern new $225,000 building for the first time. The Main High structure would permit not only a finer environment for the students, but also a broader curriculum. 1957 — The Soviet Union announced it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. 1964 — President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 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. 1972 — The summer Olympics games opened in Munich, West Germany. 1986 — In the so-called “preppie murder case,” 18-year-old Jennifer Levin was found strangled in New York’s Central Park; Robert Chambers later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served 15 years in prison. 1996 — Democrats opened their 42nd national convention in Chicago. 2015 — Alison Parker, a reporter for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, and her cameraman, Adam Ward, were shot to death during a live broadcast by a disgruntled former station employee who fatally shot himself while being pursued by police.