25 AUGUST

1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded

1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean

1894 Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet

1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)

1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq

Famous Birthday's

Ivan the Terrible
(1530 - 1584)

George Wallace
(1919 - 1998)

Sean Connery
87 Years Old

Tim Burton
59 Years Old

Famous Deaths

Margaret of Anjou
(1430 - 1482)

James Watt
(1736 - 1819)

William Herschel
(1738 - 1822)

Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)

Paul Muni
(1895 - 1967)

Neil Armstrong
(1930 - 2012)

Famous Weddings

1749 British admiral Samuel Hood (24) weds Susannah Linzee in Portsmouth, England

1870 German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland

1885 "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28)

1925 Suffragette Kate Sheppard (78) weds printer and author William Sidney Lovell-Smith (72) in Christchurch, New Zealand

1928 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna