Aug. 26 in history
In 2018, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who had spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before a 35-year political career that took him to the Republican presidential nomination, died at the age of 81 after battling brain cancer for more than a year.
In 1718, hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.
In 1928, an expedition led by Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to Antarctica.
In 1944, during WWII, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
In 1967, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued directives to spy on and discredit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the civil rights movement. 1967: J. Edgar Hoover ordered spyung on Martin Luther King Jr. - Mississippi Today
In 2009, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died at age 77 in Hyannis Port, Mass., after a battle with a brain tumor.
In 2014, a funeral was held in St. Louis for Michael Brown, the Black 18-year-old who was shot to death by a police officer in suburban Ferguson.
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