I must be pretty bored today. I just tried it on both SQL 2005 and 2008, and niether wrote a record to the restorehistory table.

One interesting thing I did observe...

The backup file I used to play with was a backup of a database with several filegroups that live on different drives in production. On the dev box I was using that only has one, it actually spit out the same error message a regular restore does when you don't use the WITH MOVE clause to tell where you want those files to go. I found that slightly cool.