TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: AUG 25
1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded
1765 In protest over the stamp tax, American colonists sack and burn the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson.
1814 The U.S. Library of Congress was destroyed by British forces.
1830 The “Tom Thumb” steam locomotive runs its famous race with a horse-drawn car. The horse wins because the engine, which had been ahead, breaks down.
1835 NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1875 “”Captain” Matthew Webb becomes the first man to swim across the English Channel.
1894 Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet
1902 “Al-Hoda” began publication in New York City making it the first Arabic daily newspaper in the U.S.
1916 The Department of the Interior created the National Park Service to manage and preserve national parks and monuments for future generations.
1921 The United States, which never ratified the Versailles Treaty ending World War I, finally signs a peace treaty with Germany.
1939 The movie “Wizard of Oz” opened around the United States.
1941 British and Soviet forces enter Iran, opening up a route to supply the Soviet Union.
1944 Liberation of Paris
1948 The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing.
1950 President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
1972 In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
1978 The Turin shroud believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ went on display for the first time in 45 years
1981 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1989 NASA scientists receive stunning photographs of Neptune and its moons from Voyager 2.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
2012 First Spacecraft to Enter Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1, which was launched on September 5, 1977, left the heliosphere – the part of space that is not influenced by our Sun
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
