Today in History – Taylor Swift wins at MTV Music Awards

TODAY IN HISTORY - 8/25:

1932 - Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
1989 - After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
2013 - 30th MTV Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars wins

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1923 - Monty Hall, Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
1930 - Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
1931 - Regis Philbin, Bronx, New York, American talk & game show host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1933 - Tom Skerritt, Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
1958 - Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1970 - Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
2000 - "Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss (39) in Los Angeles

GOODBYE TO:

1984 - Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59
2009 - Edward [Ted] M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1932)
2012 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82

To see more historical events that happened this date, visit:  http://www.historyorb.com/day/august/25

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