August 25
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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. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| Jul – '''August''' – Sep |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |- style="text-align:center;" | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |- style="text-align:center;" | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |- style="text-align:center;" | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |- style="text-align:center;" | 29 | 30 | 31 ||colspan=4| |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangementAll days |} ==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) *1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688) *1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806) *1767 - Antoine Louis Lon 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 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist *1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972) *1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971) *1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993) *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 - Tom Skerritt, actor *1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician *1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author *1938 - David Canary, actor *1939 - John Badham, film director *1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter *1944 - Anthony Heald, actor *1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War *1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball pitcher *1947 - Anne Archer, actress *1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist *1949 - Martin Amis, novelist *1949 - John Savage, actor *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 *1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel ==Deaths== *1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, in Acre (b. 1142) *1774 - Niccol Jommelli, composer *1822 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738) *1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist *1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher *1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter *1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist *1925 - Franz Conrad von Htzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI *1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent *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 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck *2001 - Aaliyah, singer ==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. ---- August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} af:08-25 ar:25 اغسطس bg:25 август ca:25 d'agost cs:25. srpen cy:25 Awst da:25. august de:25. August et:25. august es:25 de agosto eo:25-a de aŭgusto fr:25 aot fy:25 augustus ko:8월 25일 hr:25. kolovoza is:25. gst it:25 agosto he:25 באוגוסט ku:25' gelawj lt:Rugpjūčio 25 lb:25. August hu:Augusztus 25 nl:25 augustus ja:8月25日 no:25. august oc:25 d'agost pl:25 sierpnia pt:25 de Agosto ro:25 august ru:25 августа sl:25. avgust sr:25. август fi:25. elokuuta sv:25 augusti tr:25 Ağustos uk:25 серпня wa:25 d' awousse zh:8月25日
