1/5 Rescue workers bring in a family through rising flood waters in the Cypress Station neighborhood as waters rise during Hurricane Harvey in Houston on August 28. The storm made landfall August 25, 2017. File Photo by Jerome Hicks/UPI | License Photo Aug. 25 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1609, Galileo Galilei exhibited his first telescope in Venice. Advertisement In 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded. In 1875, Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British merchant navy captain, became the first person known to successfully swim the English Channel. In 1944, allied forces and the French resistance...