AUGUST 25
1932:Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a solo transcontinental nonstop flight. She arrives in Newark, N.J., 19 hours and 5 minutes after taking off from Los Angeles.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson approves an act of Congress establishing the National Park Service as an agency within the Department of the Interior.
1944: French Gen. Jacques-Philippe Leclerc’s 2nd Armored Division leads Allied forces into Paris as it is liberated from four years of German occupation.
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