August 25
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining.
Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 1530 - Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
- 1624 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
- 1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
- 1662 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (d. 1724)
- 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)
- 1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
- 1796 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
- 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
- 1836 - Bret Harte, American writer (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 (d. 1966)
- 1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematican
- 1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist
- 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
- 1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer and 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, actor
- 1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor
- 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
- 1918 - Richard Greene, actor
- 1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
- 1921 - Monty Hall, game show host
- 1921 - Brian Moore, Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
- 1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
- 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer
- 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish 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, Belgian baritone
- 1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
- 1944 - Anthony Heald, actor
- 1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball player
- 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 and composer
- 1954 - Elvis Costello, musician
- 1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer
- 1962 - Viv Campbell, guitarist (Def Leppard)
- 1962 - David Packer, American actor
- 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
- 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor
- 1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
- 1968 - Rachael Ray, cook and television host
- 1968 - Stuart Murdoch, musician (Belle & Sebastian)
- 1969 - Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor (All My Children)
- 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
- 1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
- 1981 - Rachel Bilson, actress
- 1987 - Stacey Farber, actress
Deaths
- 383 - Gratian, Roman Emperor
- 1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
- 1270 - King Louis IX of France
- 1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer
- 1699 - King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
- 1711 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
- 1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer
- 1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
- 1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist
- 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- 1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
- 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army
- 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 and entertainer (b. 1890)
- 1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
- 1979 - Stan Kenton, American jazz musician and band leader
- 1979 - Ray Eberle, jazz musician and band leader
- 1980 - Gower Champion, dancer, actor, and choreographer
- 1984 - Truman Capote, author
- 1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
- 1985 - Samantha Smith, American social activist and actress
- 1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
- 2000 - Carl Barks, cartoonist
- 2001 - Aaliyah, singer (plane crash)
- 2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer
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.
External links
August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days