Today in History - History - August 25th

1991Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds

1698Tsar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through Western Europe

1950Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title

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

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

1986A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run

199696th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

1948Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's

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

1932Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight

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

1955"Dracula" actor Bela Lugosi (72) weds Hope Lininger (36)

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

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

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

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

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

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

1688Henry Morgan, English pirate

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