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What Happened on August 25th This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
2017	Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present): One hundred seventy people are killed in at least 26 separate attacks carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, leading to the governments of Myanmar and Malaysia designating the group as a terrorist organisation.[18][19]
2012	Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
2011	Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.
2006	Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
2005	Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.
2003	NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
2001	American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
1997	Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
1991	Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991	The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence).
1991	Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
1989	Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.
1989	Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after take off from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found.
1985	Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith.
1981	Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1980	Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
1967	George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
1961	President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
1960	The Games of the XVII Olympiad commence in Rome, Italy.
1958	The world’s first publicly marketed instant noodles, Chikin Ramen, are introduced by Taiwanese-Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando.
1950	To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.
1948	The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1945	Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1945	The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1944	World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1942	World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
1942	World War II: Battle of Milne Bay: Japanese marines assault Allied airfields at Milne Bay, New Guinea, initiating the Battle of Milne Bay.
1941	World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran.
1940	World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
1939	The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
1933	The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1920	Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
1916	The United States National Park Service is created.
1914	World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1914	World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
1912	The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
1904	Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Liaoyang begins.
1898	Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
1894	Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1883	France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
1875	Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1835	The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
1830	The Belgian Revolution begins.
1825	The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.
1823	American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
1814	War of 1812: On the second day of the Burning of Washington, British troops torch the Library of Congress, United States Treasury, Department of War, and other public buildings.
1758	Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1630	Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
1609	Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1580	War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
1543	António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.
1537	The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1270	Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX, during the Eighth Crusade. His uncle, Charles I of Naples, is forced to begin peace negotiations with Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Hafsid Sultan of Tunis.
1258	Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos, paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
1248	The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
766	Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios.
19	The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.

Famous People Born on August 25

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Year	Name
1950	Willy DeVille, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
1930	Crispin Tickell, English academic and diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (d. 2022)
1836	Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (d. 1902)
1977	Masumi Asano, Japanese voice actress and producer
1984	Florian Mohr, German footballer
1902	Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and educator (d. 1972)
1867	James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (d. 1951)
1850	Charles Richet, French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1970	Robert Horry, American basketball player and sportscaster
1981	Camille Pin, French tennis player

Famous People Deaths On August 25

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Date	Name
1965	Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)
1981	Nassos Kedrakas, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1915)
1979	Stan Kenton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1911)
2009	Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
1940	Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)
1939	Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)
1968	Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910)
1942	Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1938	Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (b. 1870)
1999	Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1956)