August 25th, 1944, during World War II, [-----1.airline Allied forces in Europe liberated Pairs-----], ending 4 years of Nazi Germany’s occupation of the French Capital.

 

1875, Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to [-----2.swim in the English Channel-----], making the journey from Britain to France in 22 hours.

1985, 13-year-old Samantha Smith and her father are killed in a plane crash in Maine. 2 years earlier, the girl’s letter to the (Yuri V. Andropov) led to [-----3.her famous piecetual  peace tour-----] of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
【小女生的话，bb不好意思听~~(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……】

1956, Alfred Kinsey, pioneering researcher of human sexual behavior, dies in Bloomington Indiana. He was 62.

1930, Sean Connery, the original actor to [-----4.play the Super Spy 007-----] on the silver screen, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1918, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Among his well-known musicals: On the Town and West Side Story.

1954, Elvis Costello, the musician whose work ranges from Rocks new way to Classical and Ballets would burke back correct , is born in London.

And 1975, Bruce Springsteen’s album-Born to Run, [-----5.considered the  of rock and roll master piece masterpiece-----], is released.

Today in History. August 25th. Sandy Kozel the Associated Press.

背景知识：
 

1944年8月25日
盟军解放巴黎

法国人民热烈欢迎盟军进入巴黎

　　1940年6月德国法西斯占领法国后，戴高乐将军和法国共产党先后发表宣言，号召人民起来抗击入侵者。1944年初，法国的主要抵抗组织联合组建内地军。武装部队发展到50万人。6月，美英盟军在法国诺曼底登陆，德军节节败退。在这种有利的形势下，内地军游击战争日益发展成为全民的武装起义。8月10日，铁路工人举行总罢工，使首都与外地的交通陷于瘫痪。19日，巴黎人民在巴黎解放委员会领导下举行武装起义。数万名内地军是起义的核心力量，12000名民警队的官兵也参加起义。当时，巴黎城内有2万多名德军和80多辆坦克。起义者浴血奋战，8月24日，几乎全歼在巴黎的德国守军。24日晚，盟军第二装甲师开进巴黎，与内地军相配合共同消灭德军残余据点。1944年8月25日，戴高乐的法军第二装甲师从巴黎的南门和西门进入首都。这天下午，法国勒克莱尔将军奉艾森豪威尔之命，在巴黎接受德军投降，巴黎全部解放。戴高乐将军以法兰西共和国临时政府主席的身份进入巴黎。1944年8月30日，戴高乐宣布法国临时政府在巴黎成立。

戴高乐回到已解放的法国，受到法国人民的热烈欢迎