Ice Bucket Challenge: Ronald McDonald
McDonald accepts the ALS challenge and nominates redheads worldwide.
Co-founder dies in accident
Griffin, who started the ALS ice bucket challenge with his friend Pete Frates, dies in a diving accident on Nantucket. Griffin had recently learned that the $100,000 had been raised for ALS, and he was very excited. His father tells The Boston Globe:
He was the happiest guy in the world. He called me last night and told me he was in paradise.
Griffin was visiting Nantucket in hopes of raising more money for the cause. At around 2:00 AM, Griffin dove off the Juice Guys’ building into Nantucket Harbor and drowned. A friend tells WHDH (Chanel 7 in Boston):
He threw himself behind a lot of causes. Way more so than anyone, you know, of our generation. And just put his heart and soul behind these things. He did it for Boston Children’s Hospital. He has been doing it more recently for ALS.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Reed Hastings
Hastings accepts the ALS challenge and nominates Michael Burns, Eugene Queller and Macklemore.
Ice Bucket Challenge: John Luke
Luke accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Sadie Robertson, Blake Coward and Sky Cruise.
Ice Bucket Challenge: David Boreanaz
Boreanaz accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Jim Gardner.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Bernie
Bernie accepts the ASL Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Ed Snider, Jeff Lurie and Dave Montgomery.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Zombie
Zombie accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Bob Iger
Iger accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Olivia Pope, Peter Quill and Tony Stark.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Jason Howell
Howell accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Leo Laporte, Molly Wood and Brian Brushwood.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Emmy Rossum
Rossum accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS and nominates Hilary Swain and Josh Duhamel.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Stephen Amell
Amell accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Grant Gustin, John Barrowman Official and Jared Padalecki.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival Cruise Direct Matt Mich accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates the rest of the Carnival Cruise Fleets.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Hunter Hayes
Hayes accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Rascal Flatts and Zac Brown Band.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Grey’s Anatomy cast
The Grey’s Anatomy cast accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominate the cast of ABC’s Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Eric Church
Church accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Keith Urban and nominates XXXX.
Ice Bucket Challenge: GMA
Good Morning America accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Michael Straham.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Jeff Bezos
Bezos is nominated by Satya Nadella for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, and George Takei.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Dwayne Johnson
Johnson accepts the charity ice bucket challenge and uploads the video.
Ice Bucket Challenge: Triple H
Triple H accepts the charity ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Ben Roethlisberger. He nominates Steve Austin, Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan.
Unidentified group kidnaps female aid workers
The Italian foreign ministry confirms that two female aid workers have been kidnapped in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. It says contact with Greta Ramelli, 20, and Vanessa Marzullo, 21, is currently ‘impossible.’ Il Foglio newspaper journalist Daniele Raineri of is reported to have been taken hostage along with them but managed to escape, and says that they were abducted on Aug. 1 and taken to the town of El Ismo, west of Aleppo, where they were transported to the home of the head of the local ‘Revolutionary Council’. The kidnappers have yet to be identified but investigators are quoted as saying they believe it is a group that has previously taken Western journalists and activists hostage.