SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 2017

Today is Saturday, August 26, the 238th day of 2017. There are 127 days left in the year.

1937 — Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished

1938 — Montreal Maroons dropped from the NHL

1939 — First major league baseball telecast-Reds at Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)

1942 — 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France

1952 — Fluoridation of SF water begins

1957 — USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile

1964 — LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ

1971 — NY Giant football team announces its leaving the Bronx for NJ in 1975

1971 — Orioles’ Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game