AUGUST 5, 2026

Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.

■  TODAY’S LEAD STORYMarilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood bedroom on August 5, 1962 — and the six decades of speculation that followed have never quite answered what actually happened.READ FULL STORY → 

■  ALSO ON THIS DAYIn 1858, a copper wire stretched 2,500 miles across the Atlantic seafloor — and collapsed the distance between two continents into something approaching instantaneous connection.READ MORE → 

■  MORE FROM HISTORYA police officer in Cleveland flipped a switch on August 5, 1914, and the world’s first electric traffic signal clicked on — beginning a convention that now governs every city street on earth.READ MORE → 

■  DID YOU KNOW?

The United States has never had an official national language. English is the de facto language of government and commerce, but no federal law has ever designated it as official — making the U.S. one of the few major nations without one. Several states have passed their own official language laws, but at the federal level the question has never been resolved.

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