Today in History: August 26, AIDS patient begins school via phone hook-up

This day is Tuesday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year Currently in history On Aug -year-old AIDS person Ryan White began attending classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo Indiana via a telephone hook-up at his home as school representatives had barred White from attending classes in person due to his illness Also on this date In the first televised major league baseball games were broadcast on experimental station W XBS a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field The Reds won the first match - and the Dodgers the second - Related Articles Cracker Barrel says it could ve done a better job with release of new logo that angered specific fans Michael Jordan-Kobe Bryant basketball card sells for a record million at auction Southwest Airlines new framework will affect plus-size travelers Here s how Elon Musk accuses Apple and OpenAI of stifling AI competition in antitrust lawsuit Video shows pro wrestler violently assaulted by Raja Jackson son of ex-UFC champ Rampage In French Gen Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a mastery march in Paris which had just been liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation In Alaskans went to the polls to overwhelmingly vote in favor of statehood In 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 In the summer Olympics opened in Munich West Germany In Cardinal Albino Luciani al-BEE -noh loo-CHYAH -nee 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 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 released but the blast caused important damage In kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California after being missing for more than years In an affidavit issued by the FBI established that of the boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump s Florida estate contained classified documents multiple of them top secret mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers magazines and personal correspondence In the current era s Birthdays Former Homeland Prevention Secretary Tom Ridge is R B singer Valerie Simpson Ashford Simpson is Broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker is Puzzle creator editor Will Shortz is Jazz musician Branford Marsalis is Actor-singer Shirley Manson Garbage is Actor Melissa McCarthy is Latin pop singer Thalia is Actor Macaulay Culkin is Actor Chris Pine is Comedian actor writer John Mulaney is Country musician Brian Kelley Florida Georgia Line is NBA guard James Harden is Actor Dylan O Brien is Actor Keke Palmer is