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Today is Saturday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2026. There are 138 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

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Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On Aug. 15, 1998, 29 people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh (OH\u2019-mah), Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had killed 17 years earlier.<\/p>\n

In 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened as the SS Ancon crossed the just-completed waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.<\/p>\n

In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.<\/p>\n

In 1947, India gained independence after nearly 200 years of British rule.<\/p>\n

In 1961, as workers began constructing a Berlin Wall made of concrete, East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a tangle of barbed wire.<\/p>\n

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In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York; more than 460,000 people attended the three-day festival, which would become a watershed event in American music and culture.<\/p>\n

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In 1989, F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as acting president of South Africa, one day after P.W. Botha resigned because of a power struggle within the National Party.<\/p>\n

In 2003, bouncing back from the largest blackout in U.S. history, cities from the Midwest to Manhattan restored power to tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Taliban regained control of the Afghan capital of Kabul after the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country.<\/p>\n

In 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a much-anticipated summit in Alaska but failed to secure an agreement to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • Actor Jim Dale is 91.<\/li>\n
  • Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is 88.<\/li>\n
  • U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is 88.<\/li>\n
  • Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is 82.<\/li>\n
  • Songwriter Jimmy Webb is 80.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Phyllis Smith is 77.<\/li>\n
  • Britain\u2019s Princess Anne is 76.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Tess Harper is 76.<\/li>\n
  • Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio is 64.<\/li>\n
  • Film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (ihn-YAH\u2019-ee-tu) is 63.<\/li>\n
  • Philanthropist Melinda French Gates is 62.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Debra Messing is 58.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Anthony Anderson is 56.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Ben Affleck is 54.<\/li>\n
  • Olympic gold medal beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings is 48.<\/li>\n
  • Rock singer Joe Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 37.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Jennifer Lawrence is 36.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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