August 25

This date in recent years

August 25, 2006

August 25, 2005

August 25, 2004

August 25, 2003

August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining.

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

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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 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.
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
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.
1946 - Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship.
1950 - President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome.
1967 - American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
1975 - Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the album that would launch him to superstardom.
1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix.
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
1997 - Sluggy Freelance, one of the oldest and well known webcomics is made.
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 - Fifty-two are killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
2005 - Tom Boonen wins the World Championship cycling in Madrid, Spain.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall on the Miami-Dade/Broward county line, hours after reaching hurricane strength.