Today in History (August 25th):
1530: Birthdays: Czar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) of Russia;
1609: Galileo Galilei exhibits his first telescope in Venice.
1718: The city of New Orleans was founded.
1836: Birthdays: Author Bret Harte;
1875: Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British merchant navy captain, became the first person known to successfully swim the English Channel.
1877: Birthdays: Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor of the electric toy train;
1910: Birthdays: Dancer/actor Ruby Keeler;
1913: Birthdays: Pogo cartoonist Walt Kelly;
1916: Birthdays: Actor Van Johnson;
1917: Birthdays: Actor Mel Ferrer;
1918: Birthdays: Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein;
1919: Birthdays: Former Alabama Gov. George Wallace;
1921: Birthdays: Monty Hall, host of Let’s Make A Deal;
1927: Birthdays: Tennis champion Althea Gibson;
1930: Birthdays: Actor Sean Connery;
1931: Birthdays: TV personality Regis Philbin;
1933: Birthdays: Actor Tom Skerritt;
1938: Birthdays: Writer Frederick Forsyth;
1944: U.S. troops liberated Paris from the Nazis in World War II.
1946: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Rollie Fingers;
1947: Birthdays: Actor Anne Archer;
1949: Birthdays: Writer Martin Amis; Actor John Savage; Rock singer Gene Simmons of KISS;
1954: Birthdays: Singer/songwriter Elvis Costello;
1958: Birthdays: Film director Tim Burton;
1961: Birthdays: Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus: Actor Ally Walker;
1964: Birthdays: Actor Blair Underwood; Actor Joanne Whalley;
1967: A sniper assassinated American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell in Arlington, Va.
1968: Birthdays: Television cook Rachael Ray;
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1970: Birthdays: Supermodel Claudia Schiffer.
1985: Samantha Smith, 13, was killed with her father and six other people in a plane crash in Maine. Her 1983 letter to Soviet President Yuri Andropov about her fear of nuclear war earned her a visit to the Soviet Union.
1991: The Soviet republic of Byelorussia, now known as Belarus, declared independence.
1992: Researchers reported that cigarette smoking significantly boosts the risk of developing cataracts, a leading cause of blindness.
1993: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York in connection with a number of terrorist activities, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 3,652.09.
1999: The FBI admitted it fired pyrotechnic tear-gas canisters at the Branch Davidian cult compound near Waco, Texas, on the day in 1993 that the standoff came to a fiery end but said the containers bounced away harmlessly.
2003: At least 45 people died and more than 61 were injured when two car bombs exploded in a crowded area of Mumbai.
2004: The World Health Organization warned that polio was on the verge of becoming a major epidemic in Africa.
2006: Pulkova Ailines Flight 612 crashed near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people.
2007: Back-to-back explosions thought to be set off by terrorists killed at least 44 people and injured more than 50 in Hyderabad, India. Authorities uncovered explosives at 16 other locations in and near the city.
2008: Two Afghan army commanders were fired after a U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed 89 civilians, many of them children. Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed the casualties on a failure of coordination between coalition forces and the Afghan army. Israel freed 198 Palestinian prisoners to show support for the leadership of the Fatah party governing the West Bank. Nearly 9,000 Palestinians remained in Israeli prisons for offenses ranging from attacks to membership in militant groups, including one behind bars since 1977.
2009: U.S. Sen. Edward Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., a liberal fixture in the Senate for 46 years, died of brain cancer at the age of 77. The Obama administration projected the U.S. budget deficit would reach $9 trillion over the next decade, $2 trillion more than expected.
2010: Bombings in 13 Iraqi cities killed at least 50 people and injured hundreds more. Dozens of high school girls and teachers at a high school in Kabul, Afghanistan, were sickened by poison gas, the ninth such case across the country. The Taliban, accused in earlier attacks, sought to keep girls from going to school.
2011: Warren Buffett announced that his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway planned to invest $5 billion in the troubled Bank of America. The bank faced an investigation into foreclosure practices. Mexican gunmen stormed a Monterrey casino and set the building on fire, killing at least 57 people, mostly women.
2012: Deaths: Neil Alden Armstrong, Aerospace Engineer
Quotes
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” – Neil Alden Armstrong, Aerospace Engineer
“Something has been said for sobriety but very little.” – John Berryman
“Give me chastity and continence-but not yet.” – Saint Augustine
Bret Harte (1836-1902) US writer:
“And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o’er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.”
“Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.”
“Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smiles again.”
“Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.”
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”
“We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.”