August 25

August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 124 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
• 1945 - Paris is liberated by the Allies
• 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
• 1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome
• 1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix
• 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel.

Deaths

• 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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