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| '''Holidays:''' | '''Holidays:''' | ||
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Revision as of 18:04, 25 August 2002
August 25th 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
- 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
- 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
- 1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (+ 1971)
- 1910 - 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 - Marhsall 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 - Blair Underwood, actor
- 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel
Deaths:
- 1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist
- 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher
- 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
- 2000 - Carl Barks, illustrator
- 2001 - Aaliyah, singer
Holidays:
- Uruguay - National Day
August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 - more historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December