August 25

August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in
leap years), with 129 days remaining.

Events

   * 1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
   * 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded
   * 1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil
   * 1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands
   * 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
   * 1942 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
   * 1944 - Paris is liberated by the Allies
   * 1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome
   * 1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix
   * 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune.
   * 2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib
     First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo,
     Northwest Territories.

Births

   * 1530 - Ivan I of Russia (Ivan the Terrible) (+ 1584).
   * 1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (+ 1688).
   * 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Agency (+ 1884).
   * 1836 - Bret Harte, author (+ 1902).
   * 1841 - Emil Kocher, medical researcher.
   * 1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
   * 1850 - Charles Richet, scientist.
   * 1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist.
   * 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (+ 1972)
   * 1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (+ 1971).
   * 1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (+ 1993).
   * 1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (+ 1994).
   * 1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist (+ 1917).
   * 1916 - Van Johnson, actor.
   * 1917 - Mel Ferrer, actor.
   * 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer (+ 1990).
   * 1918 - Richard Greene, actor.
   * 1919 - George Wallace, governor of Alabama (+ 1998).
   * 1921 - Monty Hall, game show host.
   * 1927 - Althea Gibson, tennis champion.
   * 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.
   * 1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter.
   * 1944 - Anthony Heald, actor.
   * 1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War.
   * 1947 - Anne Archer, actress.
   * 1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist.
   * 1949 - Martin Amis, novelist.
   * 1949 - John Savage, actor.
   * 1952 - Peter Wolf, singer, composer.
   * 1954 - Elvis Costello, songwriter, musician.
   * 1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, screenwriter.
   * 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer.
   * 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician.
   * 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor.
   * 1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer.
   * 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel.

Deaths

   * 1774 - Niccol˜ Jommelli, composer
   * 1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist.
   * 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher.
   * 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
   * 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist.
   * 1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent.
   * 1967 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor.
   * 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader.
   * 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.
   * 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

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