August 25
1718 - New Orleans was founded by French settlers and named after the Duke of Orleans.
1825 - Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.
1875 - Matthew Webb became the fist person to swim across the English Channel; it took him 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1916 - The Department of the Interior created the National Park Service to manage and preserve national parks and monuments for future generations.
1928 - An expedition led by Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to Antarctica.
1944 - Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation by Allied troops during World War II.
1981 - The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet.
1984 - Author Truman Capote was found dead in Los Angeles.
1985 - Samantha Smith, 13, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, died with her father in an airliner crash in Auburn, Maine.
2001 - Singer and actress Aaliyah died in a plane crash in the Bahamas at age 22.
2003 - NASA launched the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
2009 - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who represented Massachusetts since 1962, died at age 77 after a battle with brain cancer.
2012 - Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon, died after suffering complications following heart bypass surgery.
2013 - Syria agreed to a U.N. investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus — a deal a senior White House official dismissed as "too late to be credible," saying the United States had "very little doubt" President Bashar Assad's forces used such weapons.
2018 - Republican Senator 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.
2020 - Two people were shot to death and a third was wounded as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. (Rittenhouse, who was taken into custody in Illinois the next day, said he was defending himself after the three men attacked him as he tried to protect businesses from protesters; he was acquitted on all charges, including homicide.)
2022 - Regulators approved California's plans to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035.
Birthdays
25 - China Anne McClain (actress)
29 - Josh Flitter (actor)
35 - Alexandra Burke (singer)
36 - Blake Lively (actress)
42 - Rachel Bilson (actress)
45 - Kel Mitchell (actor)
46 - Jonathan Togo (actor)
47 - Alexander Skarsgard (actor)
49 - Eric Millegan (actor)
50 - Ben Falcone (actor)
52 - Nathan Page (actor)
52 - Brice Long (singer)
53 - Claudia Schiffer (model)
53 - Jo Dee Messina (singer)
55 - Rachael Ray (TV chef)
55 - David Alan Basche (actor)
57 - Robert Maschio (actor)
59 - Blair Underwood (actress)
62 - Joanne Whalley (actress)
62 - Billy Ray Cyrus (singer)
62 - Ally Walker (actress)
63 - Ashley Crow (actress)
65 - Christian LeBlanc (actor)
65 - Tim Burton (director)
69 - Elvis Costello (singer)
74 - John Savage (actor)
74 - Gene Simmons (singer)
79 - Anthony Heald (actor)
90 - Tom Skerritt (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 25
1960 - The AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys.
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American to win the U.S. singles tennis championship.
1985 - Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher to win 20 major league baseball games in a season.
1991 - American track star Carl Lewis sets a new world record in the 100 meter dash with a time of 9.86 seconds.
1996 - Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
1718 - New Orleans was founded by French settlers and named after the Duke of Orleans.
1825 - Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.
1875 - Matthew Webb became the fist person to swim across the English Channel; it took him 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1916 - The Department of the Interior created the National Park Service to manage and preserve national parks and monuments for future generations.
1928 - An expedition led by Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to Antarctica.
1944 - Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation by Allied troops during World War II.
1981 - The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet.
1984 - Author Truman Capote was found dead in Los Angeles.
1985 - Samantha Smith, 13, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, died with her father in an airliner crash in Auburn, Maine.
2001 - Singer and actress Aaliyah died in a plane crash in the Bahamas at age 22.
2003 - NASA launched the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
2009 - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who represented Massachusetts since 1962, died at age 77 after a battle with brain cancer.
2012 - Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon, died after suffering complications following heart bypass surgery.
2013 - Syria agreed to a U.N. investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus — a deal a senior White House official dismissed as "too late to be credible," saying the United States had "very little doubt" President Bashar Assad's forces used such weapons.
2018 - Republican Senator 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.
2020 - Two people were shot to death and a third was wounded as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. (Rittenhouse, who was taken into custody in Illinois the next day, said he was defending himself after the three men attacked him as he tried to protect businesses from protesters; he was acquitted on all charges, including homicide.)
2022 - Regulators approved California's plans to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035.
Birthdays
25 - China Anne McClain (actress)
29 - Josh Flitter (actor)
35 - Alexandra Burke (singer)
36 - Blake Lively (actress)
42 - Rachel Bilson (actress)
45 - Kel Mitchell (actor)
46 - Jonathan Togo (actor)
47 - Alexander Skarsgard (actor)
49 - Eric Millegan (actor)
50 - Ben Falcone (actor)
52 - Nathan Page (actor)
52 - Brice Long (singer)
53 - Claudia Schiffer (model)
53 - Jo Dee Messina (singer)
55 - Rachael Ray (TV chef)
55 - David Alan Basche (actor)
57 - Robert Maschio (actor)
59 - Blair Underwood (actress)
62 - Joanne Whalley (actress)
62 - Billy Ray Cyrus (singer)
62 - Ally Walker (actress)
63 - Ashley Crow (actress)
65 - Christian LeBlanc (actor)
65 - Tim Burton (director)
69 - Elvis Costello (singer)
74 - John Savage (actor)
74 - Gene Simmons (singer)
79 - Anthony Heald (actor)
90 - Tom Skerritt (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 25
1960 - The AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys.
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American to win the U.S. singles tennis championship.
1985 - Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher to win 20 major league baseball games in a season.
1991 - American track star Carl Lewis sets a new world record in the 100 meter dash with a time of 9.86 seconds.
1996 - Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
