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Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game
was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become
WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in
Brooklyn, New York.

At the time, television was still in its infancy. Regular programming
did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets—there
were only about 400 in the New York area. Not until 1946 did regular network broadcasting catch on in the United States, and only in the
mid-1950s did TV sets become more common in the American household.

Walter Lanier "Red" Barber
(February 17, 1908 – October 22, 1992)

Barber was nicknamed "The Ol’ Redhead".
     

1939 RCA Model TT-5, 5" screen, 5 channel, NO SOUND (Sold for $199.50)

Of the 600 of these manufactured, only a dozen are known to exist
today, and only a handful of those are still working. The set had to
be connected to a special TV-sound equipped radio, in order to
hear the television sound for each channel. 

National Dog Day was established by Colleen Paige who choose
August 26 because that was the day her family brought home her
first dog.

On August 25, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, which will become one of
the best-loved movies in history, opened in theaters around the
United States.

Based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), the film starred Judy Garland as
the young Kansas farm girl Dorothy, who, after being knocked unconscious in a tornado, dreams about following a yellow brick
road, alongside her dog Toto, to the Emerald City to meet the
Wizard of Oz. Along the way, Dorothy encounters a cast of
characters, including the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly
Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West.

On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United
States and England, British troops entered Washington, D.C.
and burned the White House in retaliation for the American
attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1813.

When the British arrived at the White House, they found that
President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already
fled to safety in Maryland. Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat
a meal made of leftover food from the White House scullery
using White House dishes and silver before ransacking the
presidential mansion and setting it ablaze.

James Madison Jr.
(March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836)