Right this moment is Sunday, Aug. 25, the 238th day of 2024. There are 128 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On August 25, 1916, Woodrow Wilson signed the Nationwide Park Service Natural Act, establishing the Nationwide Park Service as an company of the U.S. Division of the Inside to keep up the nation’s pure and historic wonders and “depart them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
Additionally on this date:
In 1875, Matthew Webb turned the primary individual to swim throughout the English Channel, crossing from Dover, England, to Calais (ka-LAY’), France, in underneath 22 hours.
In 1928, an expedition led by Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to Antarctica.
In 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after 4 years of Nazi occupation throughout World Battle II.
1948 – Within the Home Un-American Actions Committee’s first televised congressional listening to, Alger Hiss denied prices by Whittaker Chambers that Hiss was a communist concerned in espionage. (Hiss was later charged with perjury and sentenced to 5 years in jail, however maintained his innocence till his dying in 1996.)
In 1981, the U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 got here inside 63,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud cowl, sending again footage of and information in regards to the ringed planet.
In 2001, R&B singer Aaliyah (ah-LEE’-yah) was killed with eight others in a aircraft crash within the Bahamas; she was 22.
In 2012, Neil Armstrong, 82, who commanded the historic Apollo 11 lunar touchdown and was the primary man to set foot on the moon in July 1969, died in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey, the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in additional than a decade, made landfall close to Corpus Christi, Texas, with 130 mph sustained winds; the storm would ship 5 days of rain totaling near 52 inches, the heaviest tropical downpour that had ever been recorded within the continental U.S.
In 2020, two folks had been shot to dying and a 3rd was wounded as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse opened hearth with an AR-15-style rifle throughout a 3rd night time of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police taking pictures of a Black man, Jacob Blake. (Rittenhouse, who was taken into custody in Illinois the subsequent day, stated he was defending himself after the three males attacked him as he tried to guard companies from protesters; he was acquitted on all prices, together with murder.)
In 2022, regulators accredited California’s plans to require all new automobiles, vans and SUVs to run on electrical energy or hydrogen by 2035.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Actor Tom Skerritt is 91.
- Former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright is 89.
- Writer Frederick Forsyth is 86.
- Movie director John Badham is 85.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Rollie Fingers is 78.
- Rock musician Gene Simmons (Kiss) is 75.
- Rock singer Rob Halford (Judas Priest) is 73.
- Musician Elvis Costello is 70.
- Movie director Tim Burton is 66.
- Nation musician Billy Ray Cyrus is 63.
- Actor Blair Underwood is 60.
- NFL Corridor of Famer Cornelius Bennett is 59.
- DJ Terminator X (Public Enemy) is 57.
- Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) is 57.
- Tv chef Rachael Ray is 56.
- Nation singer Jo Dee Messina is 54.
- Mannequin Claudia Schiffer is 54.
- NFL Corridor of Famer Marvin Harrison is 52.
- Actor Alexander Skarsgard is 48.
- Actor Kel Mitchell is 46.
- Actor Rachel Bilson is 43.
- Actor Blake Full of life is 37.
- Actor China Anne McClain is 26.