History for August 25 - On-This-Day.com
Allen Pinkerton 1819, Leonard Bernstein 1918, George C. Wallace 1919
Sean Connery 1930 - Actor, Regis Philbin 1931 - Talk show host, game show host ("Who Wants to be a Milllionaire"), Gene Simmons 1949 - Musician (KISS)
1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
1840 - Joseph Gibbons received a patent for the seeding machine.
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
1940 - Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward were married while suspended in parachutes at the World’s Fair in New York City.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating funds for construction of the Pentagon.
1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.
1950 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to avert a strike.
1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
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