Afrigather 1 of 6 | France’s Division Leclerc work to liberate the town of Paris from German occupation on August 25, 1944, throughout World Battle II. File Picture courtesy of the Nationwide Museum of the U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons
Aug. 25 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:
In 1609, Galileo Galilei exhibited his first telescope in Venice.
In 1718, the town of New Orleans was based.
In 1875, Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British service provider navy captain, grew to become the primary particular person recognized to efficiently swim the English Channel.
In 1944, allied forces and the French resistance freed the town of Paris from German occupation throughout World Battle II. United Press reporter James McGlincy was the primary international correspondent within the capital amid the combating. He reported the Parisians welcomed the Allies with kisses: “Lord, how they kissed us!”
In 1967, a sniper assassinated American Nazi chief George Lincoln Rockwell in Arlington, Va.
In 1985, Samantha Smith, 13, was killed along with her father and 6 different folks in a aircraft crash in Maine. Samantha’s 1983 letter to Soviet President Yuri Andropov about her concern of nuclear struggle earned her a go to to the Soviet Union.
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In 1989, Voyager 2, after a 4 billion-mile journey, made its closest go over Neptune, sending again pictures of southern lights and its moon, Triton, to Earth.
In 2009, U.S. Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy, D-Mass., a liberal fixture within the Senate for 46 years, died of mind most cancers on the age of 77.
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In 2012, former astronaut Neil Armstrong, the primary man to stroll on the moon, died in Cincinnati. He was 82.
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on San Jose Island, Texas, as a Class 4 storm. Harvey killed greater than 100 folks and prompted $125 billion in injury.
In 2020, the Africa Regional Certification Fee declared Africa free of untamed polio after 4 years with out a case.
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