On August 25, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, which will become one of
the best-loved movies in history, opened in theaters around the
United States.

Based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), the film starred Judy Garland as
the young Kansas farm girl Dorothy, who, after being knocked unconscious in a tornado, dreams about following a yellow brick
road, alongside her dog Toto, to the Emerald City to meet the
Wizard of Oz. Along the way, Dorothy encounters a cast of
characters, including the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly
Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West.

On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United
States and England, British troops entered Washington, D.C.
and burned the White House in retaliation for the American
attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1813.

When the British arrived at the White House, they found that
President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already
fled to safety in Maryland. Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat
a meal made of leftover food from the White House scullery
using White House dishes and silver before ransacking the
presidential mansion and setting it ablaze.

James Madison Jr.
(March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836)

Though he had landed on the beaches of Normandy and been
wounded in battle fighting with the U.S. Army, Staff Sergeant
Marcario García was not yet a U.S. citizen when President
Harry S. Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor on August
23, 1945. García became the first Mexican national to receive
the American military’s highest honor.

Marcario García  (January 20, 1920 – December 24, 1972)

SANDY KOZEL

Rudolph Valentino 
(nicknamed The Latin Lover)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

1922

Excessive drought in Texas dried up a river in Dinosaur
Valley State Park, exposing new dinosaur tracks that
were previously filled with sediment.

(Fox News) – The drought of 2022 that has ravaged Texas
throughout the summer has helped uncover some
prehistoric treasures.

According to Dinosaur Velley State Park, The tracks date
from around 113 million years ago.

The tracks were found in a dried up river bed that is normally
under water and covered with mud. But because of the drought,
the river has dried up significantly in recent weeks to unveil the
massive tracks.

Acrocanthosaurus was one of the largest theropods, with the
largest specimen reaching 36 feet long and weighing
approximately 3.6–4.4 metric tons.

Rain in the area is expected to cover those tracks up again in
the coming days.