Aug. 25 (UPI) -- On this date in history:
In 1609, Galileo Galilei exhibited his first telescope in Venice.
In 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded.
In 1944, allied forces and the French resistance freed the city of Paris from German occupation during World War II. United Press reporter James McGlincy was the first foreign correspondent in the capital amid the fighting. He reported the Parisians welcomed the Allies with kisses: "Lord, how they kissed us!"
In 1967, a sniper assassinated American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell in Arlington, Va.
