Today in History - History - August 25th

1963Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding

194628th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore

1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf

199696th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

201330th MTV Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars wins

1924Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn

1968Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship

1996Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic

1609Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1904james j jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1958Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)

1930Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)

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

1941Jazz musician Billie Holiday (26) weds trombonist Jimmy Monroe

1962Retired general Colin Powell (25) weds audiologist Alma Johnson (24) at the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama

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

2000"Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss (39) in Los Angeles

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

1688Henry Morgan, English pirate

1984Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59

1908Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55

1776David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65

1900Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55

2012Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82