August 25

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is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
1758 - Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1768 - James Cook begins his first voyage.
1814 - Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812
1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Spain.
1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands
1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche dies.
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1916 - The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1950 - President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1967 - American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
1980 - The Broadway musical 42nd Street opens; the show's director, Gower Champion, had died earlier that day.
1988 - The historical center of Lisbon is destroyed by a fire.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune, the last major planet it could visit before leaving the Solar System.
1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1991 - Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he is working on a new free computer operating system.
1991 - Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union
1991 - Michael Schumacher makes his Formula 1 debut in the Belgian Grand Prix
2002 - ESPN signature show SportsCenter has their 25,000 episode
2003 - The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
2003 - Fifty-two are killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall on the Miami-Dade/Broward county line, hours after reaching hurricane strength.

Births

1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
1624 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
1662 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (d. 1724)
1719 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1796 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1836 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
1841 - Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1850 - Charles Richet, French scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935)
1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland (d. 1966)
1893 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematican (d. 1975)
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
1903 - Árpád Élő, Hungarian physicist (d. 1992)
1909 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
1909 - Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1916 - Van Johnson, American actor
1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2003)
1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
1918 - Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
1921 - Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host
1921 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1931 - Regis Philbin, American television host
1931 - Hal Fishman, American news anchor
1933 - Wayne Shorter, American musician
1933 - Tom Skerritt, American actor
1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
1938 - David Canary, American actor
1938 - Frederick Forsyth, English author
1939 - John Badham, American film director
1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
1944 - Anthony Heald, American actor
1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball player
1947 - Anne Archer, American actress
1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
1949 - John Savage, American actor
1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born bassist
1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1952 - Peter Wolf, American singer and composer
1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor
1962 - David Packer, American actor
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 - Blair Underwood, American actor
1965 - Mia Zapata, American punk singer (The Gits)
1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American alt-country singer (Wilco)
1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 - Rachael Ray, American cook and television host
1968 - Spider One, American singer and musician (Powerman 5000)
1969 - Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
1971 - Mike Lockwood, Professional wrestler better known as Crash Holly
1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
1974 - Eric Millegan, American actor
1976 - Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1978 - Franck Queudrue, French footballer
1981 - Rachel Bilson, American actress
1987 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1987 - James Wesolowski, Australain footballer

Deaths

383 - Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
471 - Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople
1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1270 - King Louis IX of France
1282 - Thomas Cantilupe, English saint
1330 - James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
1482 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
1554 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)
1632 - Thomas Dekker, English dramatist
1650 - Richard Crashaw, English poet
1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer
1699 - King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
1711 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
1742 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
1792 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
1938 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1945 - John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1950 - Earl Caddock, Professional wrestler
1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
1967 - Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
1971 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1979 - Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
1980 - Gower Champion, American dancer, actor, and choreographer (b. 1919)
1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
1984 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (b. 1899)
1984 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
1985 - Samantha Smith, American social activist and actress (plane crash) (b. 1972)
1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
2000 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
2001 - Aaliyah, American singer (plane crash) (b. 1979)
2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2005 - Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
RC Saints - Genesius of Arles, Saint Louis IX of France, Saint Joseph Calasanz
Uruguay - National Day (independence from Brazil in 1825).
Philippines - National Heroes' Day.

External links

August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days

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