On August 25, 2009, Edward “Ted” Kennedy, the youngest brother of President John F.

Truman Capote, the author of the pioneering true-crime novel In Cold Blood, dies at age 59 in Los Angeles.

During the Lebanese Civil War, a multinational force including 800 U.

On August 25, 1979, the storm that will become Hurricane David forms near Cape Verde off the African coast in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

On August 25, 1962, a diminutive, 17-year-old singer named Eva Narcissus Boyd scored her first and only #1 pop hit with “The Loco-Motion.

To help address the food shortage crisis in Japan after World War II, inventor and businessman Momofuku Ando develops Chicken Ramen, the first-ever instant noodles, on August 25, 1958.

On August 25, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, which will become one of the best-loved movies in history, opens in theaters around the United States.

Over the course of five days, beginning August 25, 1914, German troops stationed in the Belgian village of Louvain during the opening month of World War I burn and loot much of the town, executing hundreds of civilians.

Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old merchant navy captain, becomes the first known person to successfully swim the English Channel.

After 22 hours in the water Captain Matthew Webb stepped ashore at Calais on this day – the first person ever to swim across the Channel from England to France.