History for August 25

History for August 25 - On-This-Day.com
Allen Pinkerton 1819, Leonard Bernstein 1918, George C. Wallace 1919


Monty Hall 1923 - Game show host ("Let's Make a Deal"), Sean Connery 1930 - Actor, Regis Philbin 1931 - Talk show host, game show host ("Who Wants to be a Milllionaire")


1902 - "Al-Hoda" began publication in New York City making it the first Arabic daily newspaper in the U.S.


1920 - The first airplane to fly from New York to Alaska arrived in Nome.


1941 - Allied forces invaded Iran. Within four days the Soviet Union and England controlled Iran.


1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.


1949 - NBC Radio debuted "Father Knows Best." The show went to TV in 1954.


1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.


1992 - It was reported by researchers that cigarette smoking significantly increased the risk of developing cataracts.


1998 - A survey released said that 1/3 of Americans use the Internet.