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.

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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.

In 1972, the summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.

In 1978, 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 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.

Determining that he would not be able to reach the runway at the Granite Falls Airport for an emergency landing, the flight instructor piloting the small jet that crashed a month ago south of Granite Falls told his fellow occupant three times to eject before he did so himself, according to a preliminary report recently filed by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The occupant, David Colin Dacus, 46, of San Francisco, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash that occurred shortly before 5:30 p.m. July 21 along Minnesota 23. He was found restrained in the rear ejection seat of the wreckage.

Dacus had a private pilot’s certificate, but was on the flight as a pilot-in-training to be certified for the jet he was interested in purchasing.

Flight instructor Mark Ryan Ruff, 43, of Dallas, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries caused by the ejection and parachute landing, according to the report. Ruff, who has certifications to fly large commercial aircraft, including the Boeing 777 Airbus, also has certification for the 50-year-old, Czech-built Aero Vodochody L-39 high-performance military jet they were flying.

Just over 10 minutes had elapsed between the time the instructor notified air traffic controllers of engine failure and the crash. The jet was 821 feet short of the runway when its tail clipped a power line and crashed into an earthen berm between the highway and a BNSF Railway line.

The engine failure occurred as the two were flying on the third leg of a trip from Gillette, Wyo., to Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wis., for the Experimental Aircraft Association event.

According to the report, the jet departed the Watertown Regional Airport in eastern South Dakota and climbed to 21,800 feet. Engine power was set at 103% during the continuous climb, yielding 280 knots true airspeed, which equates to 322.4 miles per hour.

The two were wearing helmet oxygen masks and reported smelling an odor followed by smoke intrusion into the cockpit. Four to five seconds later, “the aircraft shook briefly in conjunction with an audible metal-to-metal grinding noise.”

The pilot tried three times to restart the engine, but without success. He turned his attention to locating an airport for a forced landing.

Between sets at any Minnesota State Fair Grandstand concert, a State Fair trivia quiz is projected onto the large screens on either side of the stage. In honor of that tradition, here’s a quiz about the six 1960s acts who performed for 4,626 fans of vintage pop at Monday night’s “Happy Together” show. The answer to each question is either the Turtles, Jay & the Americans, “Little Anthony” Gourdine, Gary Puckett, the Vogues or the Cowsills.

1: Which act’s biggest hit came at the suggestion of TV producer Carl Reiner?

2: Which act has no original members?

3: Which artist was born in Minnesota?

4: Only one of Monday’s performers is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Who is it?

5: The core duo of Steely Dan — Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — toured in the backing band for which act?

6: Only one song performed Monday night was Billboard magazine’s biggest-selling song of the year. Which was it?

Here are the answers, with a bit about how they sounded Monday night.

1: Reiner suggested the Cowsills cover the title song from the groundbreaking countercultural Broadway musical, “Hair,” for a TV special he was producing. It closed their infectiously energetic and nicely harmonized set Monday.

2: Up until shortly before showtime, the answer would have been the Vogues, which is what is called in the business a “ghost band.” And it’s a decent one, as they showed on a fine version of “Five O’Clock World,” buoyed by soaring yodels. But the lone original Turtle, Mark Volman, had to withdraw from the concert for health reasons, so it was true of two groups.

3: Gary Puckett was born in Hibbing, but moved west in childhood. Now 82, his voice remains distinctive, but it’s increasingly frail, making such cringe-worthy fare as “Young Girl” even more so.

4: In 2009, “Little Anthony” Gourdine was inducted into the hall with his vocal group, the Imperials. He was in terrific voice for a man of 84, leaving the impression we were in the presence of musical royalty, especially on the evening’s saddest tune, a deeply affecting “Hurt So Bad.”

5: Fagen and Becker toured with Jay & the Americans in 1971. Jay Reincke is the group’s third “Jay,” and he did a fine job of hitting the falsetto notes of “Cara Mia” and selling the vintage doo-wop of “This Magic Moment.”

6: The Turtles started this whole itinerant oldies fest in 2011, and have brought it back to the Grandstand seven times since. But lead singer Howard Kaylan has retired and turned that role over to Ron Dante, who’s most famous for singing lead on the Archies’ “Sugar, Sugar,” the most popular song of 1969. He sang it Monday, with Volman’s harmonies handled by the leader of the exceptional quartet that backed all of the acts, guitarist Godfrey Townsend, concluding the set with the blissful pop tune that gave the tour its name.

Rob Hubbard can be reached at wordhub@yahoo.com.

TORONTO — Max Scherzer pitched six innings and won his third straight start, Alejandro Kirk and Andrés Giménez homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Minnesota Twins 10-4 on Monday night.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added a two-run single as the AL East-leading Blue Jays won for the 30th time in 39 home games.

Scherzer (5-2) allowed four runs and four hits, including two home runs. He struck out five and walked one. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is 10-2 in 19 career starts against the Twins.

Minnesota’s Matt Wallner homered twice off Scherzer, his 18th and 19th, but the Twins lost for the sixth time in seven games.

Twins starter Joe Ryan gave up four runs and four hits in a shaky first inning. Bo Bichette hit an RBI single and a second run scored on Daulton Varsho’s sacrifice fly before Kirk hit a two-run homer, his 11th.

Giménez extended the lead with a 422-foot drive on Ryan’s first pitch of the second. The homer was Giménez’s sixth.

Ryan (12-7) matched a season high by allowing six runs and seven hits in five innings. He lost consecutive starts for the first time this season.

Wallner hit a solo shot in the fourth and a two-run drive in the sixth. It was his first mult-ihomer game of the season and the second of his career.

Guerrero started at designated hitter, his first start since leaving an Aug. 18 game at Pittsburgh because of a sore left hamstring. Guerrero popped out as a pinch hitter in Sunday’s loss at Miami.

Key moment

Kirk’s two-out, first-pitch homer in the first capped a four-run inning.

Key stat

The Blue Jays are 57-3 when they score five or more runs.

Up next

Blue Jays RHP Chris Bassitt (11-7, 4.18 ERA) is scheduled to start Tuesday against Twins RHP Bailey Ober (4-7, 5.05).

Toronto Blue Jays’ Nathan Lukes runs in to score on a single by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. as Minnesota Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers, left, waits for a throw during sixth-inning baseball game action in Toronto, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)