TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT ALSO ON THIS DATE

August 25, 1718

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

1916

President Woodrow Wilson signed an act establishing the National Park Service within the Department of the Interior.

1921

The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.

1944

During World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.

1965

Former baseball player-turned-doctor Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, who’d briefly played in only one major league game, died in Chisholm, Minnesota, at age 87.

1967

George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot to death in the parking lot of a shopping center in Arlington, Virginia; former party member John Patler was later convicted of the killing.

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.

1984

Author Truman Capote was found dead in a Los Angeles mansion; he was 59.

1993

Amy Biehl, a 26-year-old Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif., was slain by a mob near Cape Town, South Africa.

2001

Rhythm-and-blues singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas; she was 22.

2004

An Army investigation found that 27 people attached to an intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad either approved or participated in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.