Today’s highlight

On Aug. 25, 1916, Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, establishing the National Park Service as an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior to maintain the country’s natural and historic wonders.

On this date

1944: Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation during World War II.

1948: In the House Un-American Activities Committee’s first televised congressional hearing, Alger Hiss denied charges by Whittaker Chambers that Hiss was a communist involved in espionage.

1981: The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet.

2017: Hurricane Harvey, the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade, made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, with 130 mph sustained winds; the storm would deliver five days of rain totaling close to 52 inches.

2022: Regulators approved California’s plans to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Tom Skerritt is 92. Baseball Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers is 79. Rock musician Gene Simmons is 76. Rock singer Rob Halford (Judas Priest) is 74. Musician Elvis Costello is 71. Film director Tim Burton is 67. Country musician Billy Ray Cyrus is 64. Television chef Rachael Ray is 57. Country singer Jo Dee Messina is 55. Model Claudia Schiffer is 55. NFL Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison is 53. Actor Alexander Skarsgard is 49. Actor Rachel Bilson is 44. Actor Blake Lively is 38. Actor China Anne McClain is 27.