TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, AUG. 25,

the 238th day of 2016. There are 128 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act establishing the National Park Service within the Department of the Interior.

In 1718,

hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.

In 1921,

the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.

In 1944,

during World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. Romania declared war on former ally Germany.

In 1958,

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure providing pensions for former U.S. presidents and their widows.

In 1975,

the Bruce Springsteen album “Born to Run” was released by Columbia Records.

In 1981,

the U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet.

In 1989,

Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune, its final planetary target.

In 2001,

Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, a single mother and former waitress, married Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon in Oslo.

In 2009,

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died at age 77 in Hyannis Port, Mass., after a battle with a brain tumor.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Game show host Monty Hall is 95. Actors Sean Connery and Page Johnson are 86. TV personality Regis Philbin is 85. Actor Tom Skerritt and jazz musician Wayne Shorter are 83. Movie director Hugh Hudson is 80. Author Frederick Forsyth is 78. Movie director John Badham and filmmaker Marshall Brickman are 77. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is 74. Rhythm-and-blues singer Walter Williams (The O’Jays) is 73. Rock singer-actor Gene Simmons, actor John Savage and country singer-musician Henry Paul (Outlaws; Blackhawk) are 67. Rock musician Geoff Downes (Asia) is 64. Rock singer Elvis Costello is 62. Movie director Tim Burton and actor Christian LeBlanc are 58.