On This Day:
Monday August 25, 2014 This is the 237th day of the year, with 128 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: elephant An elephant's trunk is extremely complex and sensitive, capable of performing delicate functions like picking up a coin from a flat surface or cracking open a peanut, blowing away the shell, and putting the kernel in its mouth.
Holidays Feast Day of St. Ebba, St. Genesius the Comedian, St. Gregory of Utrecht, St. Louis IX, King of France, St. Mennas of Constantinople, and St. Patricia.
Uruguay: Independence Day.
Philippines: National Heroes' Day.
Events 1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, some settling in what is now New Orleans.
1825 - Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.
1875 - Navy Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel (in 21 hours, 45 minutes).
1916 - The National Park Service was established.
1944 - Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1980 - The Broadway musical "42nd Street" opened; the show's director, Gower Champion, died earlier that day.
1991 - Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 - Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York, having won 64 titles, 14 Grand Slam titles, and more than $43 million in prize money.
Births 1530 - Ivan IV "Ivan the Terrible," Czar of Russia.
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American, started first private detective agency.
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German-born English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
1909 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian-born American dancer, actress.
1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist, creator of the character Pogo.
1916 - Van Johnson, American actor.
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer.
1921 - Monty Hall (born Maurice Halperin), Canadian-born game show host.
1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish-born Academy Award-winning actor.
1931 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles television news anchor.
1931 - Regis Philbin, American television host.
1949 - Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz), Israeli-born musician.
1954 - Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus), English musician.
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director.
Deaths 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher.
1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist.
1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia.
1984 - Truman Capote, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
1998 - Lewis F. Powell, former Supreme Court Justice.
2000 - Carl Barks, a Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator.
2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer.
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