August 25
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. Events1500-18991537 - 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 Netherlands1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates The Great Moon Hoax.1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.
1900-19991910 - 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 Guinea1944 - 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.
2000-20992003 - 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.
Births1500-18991530 - 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)1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)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, scientist1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland 1945-59 (d. 1966)
1900-19991900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist1902 - 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, American cartoonist (d. 1973)1916 - Van Johnson, actor1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990) 1918 - Richard Greene, actor1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)1921 - Monty Hall, game show host1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor1933 - Regis Philbin, television host 1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician 1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor1935 - Charles Wright, American poet1938 - David Canary, actor 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author1939 - John Badham, film director1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter1944 - Anthony Heald, actor1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball player1947 - Anne Archer, actress1949 - Martin Amis, novelist 1949 - John Savage, actor 1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist1951 - Robert Joseph Glass, artist1952 - Peter Wolf, singer and composer1954 - Elvis Costello, musician1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, and screenwriter1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer1962 - Viv Campbell, guitarist (Def Leppard)1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer 1968 - Rachael Ray, cook and television host1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
Deaths1000-18991192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, in Acre (b. 1142)1270 - Louis IX of France on crusade in Tunisia.1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer1822 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738)1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist
1900-19991900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician and prime minister (b. 1840)1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army, WWI1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia1967 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader1971 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890)1979 - Stan Kenton, jazz musician, big band leader1979 - Ray Eberle, jazz musician, big band leader1980 - Gower Champion, dancer, actor, choreographer1984 - Truman Capote, author1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)1985 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
2000-20992000 - Carl Barks, illustrator of Donald Duck2001 - Aaliyah, singer (plane crash)2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist
Holidays and observancesUruguay - National Day.Roman Empire - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.Philippines - National Heroes' Day.Australia - Claytonymas. Held in honour of Australian war heroes.
External links BBC: On This Day
August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days
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