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On Aug. 25, 1875, Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, in under 22 hours.

In 1916, Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, establishing the National Park Service as an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

In 1928, an expedition led by Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, New Jersey, for Antarctica.

In 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation during World War II.

In 2012, Neil Armstrong, 82, who commanded the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing and was the first man to set foot on the moon in July 1969, died in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey, the fiercest hurricane to hit the United States in more than a decade, made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, with 130 mph sustained winds.