Today is Monday, August 25th, 2025

After a sweltering first half of August, temperatures this week should be noticeably cooler; today and Friday are the only days the mercury is expected to edge above 80, and even then, not by much. Showers are forecast for this morning and Friday.

After a couple of weeks of highlighting Yankee record-breakers in this space, here’s one for Mets fans : On this day in 1985, Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher in Major League Baseball to win 20 games in a single season.

Also on this day, but a half-century earlier, in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, landing her red Lockheed Vega 5B in Newark N.J., 19 hours, 5 minutes after taking off from Los Angeles.

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