On this day in history (August 25) in 1921, the first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur in Logan County, WV. In 1609, Galileo Galiliei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. In 1942, during World War II on the second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged. In 1944, Paris, France was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation during World War II. In 1949, NBC Radio debuted Father Knows Best . The show went to TV five years later. In 1972, in Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (also known as CAT scan) was introduced. In 1978, The shroud of Turin, believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, went on display for the first time in 45 years. In 1981, Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach (63,000 miles away) to Saturn and sent back pictures and data about the planet. In 1989, Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet of the Solar System at the time. In 2012, Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
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