Robert William Barker (December 12, 1923 – August 26, 2023)

Bob Barker, longtime game show host for "The Price is
Right" has died. He also hosted Truth or Consequences
from 1956 to 1975. He was 99.

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 (below) called
the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn
Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN-TV) — Mike Donahue, who became one
of the most trusted journalists ever in Portland during a 44-
year career with KOIN 6 News, has died following a lengthy
battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 77.

Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus)

Experts in pop and rock music consider Costello to be one of the
most gifted and versatile songwriters of his generation.

After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris was liberated
by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry
Division. German resistance was light, and General Dietrich von
Choltitz, commander of the German garrison, defied an order by
Adolf Hitler to blow up Paris’ landmarks and burn the city to the
ground before its liberation. Choltitz signed a formal surrender
that afternoon, and on August 26, Free French General Charles
de Gaulle led a joyous liberation march down the Champs
d’Elysees.

Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz 
(9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966)