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August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 129 days remaining.
Events
1500-1899
1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.
1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands
1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates The Great Moon Hoax.
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.
1900-1999
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
1916 - 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 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1946 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship.
1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome.
1975 - Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the classic album that would launch him to superstardom.
1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix.
1980 - The Broadway musical 42nd Street opened; the show's director, Gower Champion, died earlier that day.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune.
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.
2000-2099
2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories.
2003 - 52 killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
Births
1500-1899
1530 - Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1796 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Agency (d. 1884)
1836 - Bret Harte, author (d. 1902)
1841 - Emil Kocher, medical researcher (d. 1917)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1850 - Charles Richet, scientist
1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland 1945-59 (d. 1966)
1900-1999
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993)
1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist (d. 1973)
1916 - Van Johnson, actor
1917 - Mel Ferrer, actor
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer (d. 1990)
1918 - Richard Greene, actor
1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
1921 - Monty Hall, game show host
1927 - Althea Gibson, tennis champion (d. 2003)
1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
1933 - Regis Philbin, television host
1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician
1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor
1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
1938 - David Canary, actor
1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author
1939 - John Badham, film director
1940 - José Van Dam, baritone singer
1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
1944 - Anthony Heald, actor
1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball pitcher
1947 - Anne Archer, actress
1949 - Martin Amis, novelist
1949 - John Savage, actor
1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist
1951 - Robert Joseph Glass, artist
1952 - Peter Wolf, singer, composer
1954 - Elvis Costello, songwriter, musician
1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, screenwriter
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer
1962 - Viv Campbell, Def Leppard guitarist
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 - Blair Underwood, actor
1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
1968 - Rachael Ray, cook, television host
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel
1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
Deaths
1000-1899
1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, in Acre (b. 1142)
1270 - Louis IX of France on crusade in Tunisia.
1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer
1822 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738)
1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist
1900-1999
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher
1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician and prime minister (b. 1840)
1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist
1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI
1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent
1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War
1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia
1967 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor
1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader
1971 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890)
1979 - Stan Kenton, jazz musician, big band leader
1979 - Ray Eberle, jazz musician, big band leader
1980 - Gower Champion, dancer, actor, choreographer
1984 - Truman Capote, author
1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
1985 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress
1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
2000-2099
2000 - Carl Barks, illustrator of Donald Duck
2001 - Aaliyah, singer (plane crash)
2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist
Holidays and observances
Uruguay - National Day.
Roman Empire - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
Philippines - National Heroes' Day.
Australia - Claytonymas. Held in honour of Australian war heroes.
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