Today in History: August 25
![Audric de Campeau on the roof of the Monnaie de Paris, which mints euro coins. He also has hives at the Musée D’Orsay and other major Parisian buildings.]({"default":{"load":"defer","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBMoJak.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=t&l=f&x=1399&y=1081"}})
![It’s thought that the ruling elites lived atop the pyramid complex, which was likely also the site of artisanal or industrial craft production]({"default":{"load":"defer","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBMoQGa.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=t&l=f&x=191&y=202"}})
![Slide 1 of 11: Galileo demonstrating his telescope, Venice, 1609 (1870). In this artist's reconstruction Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist, is showing his telescope to the Doge and the Venetian Senators. Galileo is credited with making the first effective telescope. From Vies des Savants Illustres by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1870). (Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)]({"default":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrQXw.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f","size3column":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrQXw.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f","size2column":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrQXw.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"} "Galileo demonstrating his telescope - Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images")
![Slide 2 of 11: 1718, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville (1680 - 1768), a French- Canadian explorer and governor of Louisiana lays the groundwork for the city of New Orleans. Original Artwork: Engraved by H Bridgman. (MPI/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrM3W.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrM3W.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrM3W.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"}} "Founding A City - MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images")
![Slide 3 of 11: Illustration of British soldiers burning books in piles within the U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., circa 1814. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrJIa.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrJIa.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrJIa.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"}} "British Soldiers Burning Books In Library Of Congress - Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images")
![Slide 4 of 11: Captain Matthew Webb (1848-1883) English swimmer. First man to swim the English Channel, 24-25 August 1875. Took 21 3/4 hours to cross from Dover to Calais: Being handed sustenance from his support boat.1875Wood engraving. (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrQXH.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrQXH.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrQXH.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"}} "Matthew Webb - Photo 12/UIG/Getty Images")
![Slide 5 of 11: Louvain the subject of mass destruction by the German army over a period of five days from 25 August 1914. 4327 (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVxhV.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVxhV.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVxhV.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"}} "Louvain the subject of mass destruction by the German army over a period of five days from 25 August... - Mirrorpix/Getty Images")
![Slide 6 of 11: (Original Caption) 8/25/1940-New York, NY- "No man on earth is good enough for her," said Arno Rudolphi, groom, of his bride-to-be, Miss Ann Hayward, so he took her up in the air for the world's first parachute wedding 8/25 at the New York Worlds Fair parachute jump.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrOkM.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrOkM.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrOkM.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"}} "Worlds First Parachute Wedding - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images")
![Slide 7 of 11: World War II. Liberation of Paris. Parisians marching through the streets of Paris. In August 1944. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVlj1.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1172&y=882"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVlj1.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1172&y=882"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVlj1.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1172&y=882"}} "World War II. Liberation of Paris. - adoc-photos/Corbis Historical/Getty Images")
![Slide 8 of 11: Unlocated picture taken in the 1968s of American famous tennis player Arthur Ashe who return the ball to his opponent as he was the first African-American on the U.S. Davis Cup. Ashe (1943-1993) won 27 of 32-Cup single matches in fifteen years, winning the Davis Cup six times. (STAFF/AFP/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrHNK.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrHNK.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrHNK.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"}} "Arthur Ashe - STAFF/AFP/Getty Images")
![Slide 9 of 11: The Voyager 2 mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is also in charge of the Magellan probe and the Deep Space Network. | Location: near Pasadena, California, USA.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrMwF.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrMwF.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqrMwF.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f"}} "Voyager 2 Mission Control Room - Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images")
![Slide 10 of 11: Pete Sampras becomes emotional during a ceremony in his honor at the US Open. Sampras publicly announced his retirement from the game of tennis after winning 14 Grand Slam Titles. (Photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio/Corbis via Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVv0Y.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1288&y=746"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVv0Y.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1288&y=746"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVv0Y.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1288&y=746"}} "US Open Tennis 2003 - Pete Sampras Retires - Lorenzo Ciniglio/Corbis Sport/Getty Images")
![Slide 11 of 11: Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11 and the first person to walk on the moon, has died Saturday, August 25, 2012. He was 82. Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong in his space suit, with his helmet on the table in front of him. Behind him is a large photograph of the lunar surface. (NASA/MCT via Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVsuW.img?h=416&w=799&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1171&y=610"},"size3column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVsuW.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1171&y=610"},"size2column":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AApVsuW.img?h=416&w=624&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=f&l=f&x=1171&y=610"}} "Neil Armstrong death - MCT/Tribune News Service/Getty Images")
Slide 1 of 11: Galileo demonstrating his telescope, Venice, 1609 (1870). In this artist's reconstruction Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist, is showing his telescope to the Doge and the Venetian Senators. Galileo is credited with making the first effective telescope. From Vies des Savants Illustres by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1870). (Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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1609: Galileo demonstrates his first telescope
Italian astronomer and philosopher Galileo Galilei demonstrates his invention, a telescope with a magnification of around eight or nine, to Venetian merchants.
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