What happened on August 25? There are more than 293 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About August 25
August 25 is the 238th day of the year 2024. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 34th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Clermont, Florida 34713 sunrise will occur at 07:00 AM and sunset will occur at 07:56 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Peridot while the mystical birthstone is Diamond.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 157 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For August 25
- 357Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum).
- 1248The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
- 1258Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
- 1537The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1580Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1609Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1758Seven Years’ War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1768James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1825Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- 1830The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1835The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- 1875Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
- 1894Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- 1898700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
- 1912The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- 1914World 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.
- 1916The United States National Park Service is created.
- 1920Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1921The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- 1933The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
- 1939The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
- 1942World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
- 1942World 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, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
- 1944World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 1945Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
- 1948The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: “Confrontation Day” between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
- 1950President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
- 1961President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.
- 1980Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- 1981Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
- 1989Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
- 1989Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
- 1989Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
- 1991Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
- 1991Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
- 1991The Airbus A340 aircraft makes it’s first flight.
- 1991The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence
- 1997Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
- 2003The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
Who Were Born On August 25?
- 1530Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
- 1561Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
- 1620István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet (d. 1704)
- 1624François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
- 1662John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
- 1707King Louis I of Spain, (d. 1724)
- 1719Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
- 1724George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
- 1741Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
- 1744Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
- 1767Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
- 1776Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1853)
- 1786King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
- 1796James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
- 1802Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
- 1803Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader (d. 1880)
- 1817Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
- 1829Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909)
- 1836Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
- 1841Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
- 1845King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
- 1867James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
- 1868Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter (d. unknown)
- 1882Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
- 1891David Shimoni, Russian-born Israeli poet and writer (d. 1956)
- 1893Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
- 1898Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
- 1898Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
- 1900Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1902Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
- 1903Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
- 1905Saint Faustina, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
- 1906Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979)
- 1909Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
- 1910Dorothea Tanning, American painter
- 1910George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1910Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
- 1911Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
- 1912Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
- 1913Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1913Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1915Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
- 1916Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- 1916Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
- 1916Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1917Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress
- 1917Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (d. 2008)
- 1918Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
- 1918Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
- 1919George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
- 1921Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
- 1921Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
- 1921Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host
- 1924Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player (d. 2006)
- 1925Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
- 1927Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
- 1928Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1928Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928John “Kayo” Dottley, American football player
- 1930Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
- 1930Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
- 1930Sir Thomas Sean Connery, Scottish actor
- 1931Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
- 1931Regis Philbin, American television host
- 1933István Gaál, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1933Patrick McManus, American outdoor humor writer
- 1933Tom Skerritt, American actor
- 1933Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician (Miles Davis, Weather Report)
- 1934Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator
- 1934Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
- 1935Charles Wright, American poet
- 1936Giridharilal Kedia, Indian entrepreneur (d. 2009)
- 1938David Canary, American actor
- 1938Frederick Forsyth, English author
- 1939John Badham, American film director
- 1940José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
- 1941Marshall Brickman, American film writer
- 1942Nathan Deal, American politician, 82nd governor of Georgia
- 1944Anthony Heald, American actor
- 1944Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
- 1944Jacques Demers, Canadian hockey coach
- 1946Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children’s author
- 1946Charlie Sanders, American football player
- 1946Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
- 1948Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemical and biomedical engineer
- 1949Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
- 1949Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss)
- 1949John Savage, American actor
- 1949Martin Amis, English novelist
- 1950Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
- 1951Bill Handel, American radio personality
- 1951Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
- 1952Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1952Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (The Buggles, Yes, Asia)
- 1954Elvis Costello, English musician
- 1955Gerd Müller, German politician
- 1955Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician
- 1956Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d. 1986)
- 1956Takeshi Okada, Japanese football manager
- 1957Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer
- 1957Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre director
- 1958Christian LeBlanc, American actor
- 1958Sterling Harwood, American academic
- 1958Tim Burton, American film director
- 1959Ruth Ann Swenson, American operatic soprano
- 1960Ashley Crow, American actress
- 1960Georg Zellhofer, Austrian footballer
- 1961Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor
- 1962David Packer, American actor
- 1962Māris Bružiks, Latvian triple jumper
- 1962Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer
- 1962Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
- 1963Christine McGlade, Canadian actress (You Can't Do That on Television)
- 1963Shock G, American singer and rapper (Digital Underground)
- 1964Blair Underwood, American actor
- 1964Dan Parent, American comic book artist and writer
- 1964Joanne Whalley, British actress
- 1964Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
- 1964Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
- 1964Vasilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
- 1965Cornelius Bennett, American football player
- 1965Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
- 1965Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer
- 1966Albert Belle, American baseball player
- 1966Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
- 1966Robert Maschio, American actor
- 1967Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
- 1967Tom Hollander, English actor
- 1968Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality
- 1968Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
- 1968Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
- 1968Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
- 1968Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
- 1968Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model and racing driver
- 1969Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
- 1969John Witt, author, sportswriter, actor and Ballhawk
- 1969Rachel Shelley, English actress
- 1969Steve Staley, American voice actor
- 1969Vivek Razdan, Indian cricketer
- 1970Claudia Schiffer, German model
- 1970Doug Glanville, American baseball player
- 1970Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
- 1970Robert Horry, American basketball player
- 1971Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1972Marvin Harrison, American football player
- 1973Fatih Akın, German film director
- 1974Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
- 1974Eric Millegan, American actor
- 1974Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
- 1975Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer
- 1976Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
- 1976Damon Jones, American basketball player
- 1976Javed Qadeer, Pakistani cricketer
- 1976Jensen Atwood, American actor
- 1977Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
- 1977Jonathan Togo, American actor
- 1977Sophie Cadieux, Canadian actress
- 1978Kel Mitchell, American actor
- 1978Robert Mohr, German rugby player
- 1979Deanna Nolan, American basketball player
- 1979Marlon Harewood, English footballer
- 1980Neal Musser, American baseball player
- 1981Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
- 1981Jan-Berrie Burger, Namibian cricketer
- 1981Rachel Bilson, American actress
- 1983James Rossiter, British racing driver
- 1987Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer and songwriter
- 1987Blake Lively, American actress
- 1987James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
- 1987Justin Upton, American baseball player
- 1987Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
- 1987Logan Morrison, American baseball player
- 1987Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
- 1987Whitney Stevens, Panamanian/American pornographic actress
- 1988Alexandra Burke, English singer
- 1988Angela Park, Brazilian/American golfer
- 1988Ray Quinn, English singer
- 1992Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
- 1998China Anne McClain, American actress
Who Died On August 25?
- 79Pliny the Elder, Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher and military commander (b. 23)
- 383Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
- 471Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)
- 1192Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
- 1227Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire (b. 1162)
- 1270Louis IX of France (b. 1214)
- 1282Thomas Cantilupe, English saint (b. c. 1218)
- 1330Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
- 1482Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
- 1554Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)
- 1632Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (b. c. 1572)
- 1650Richard Crashaw, English poet (b. c. 1613)
- 1688Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (b. c. 1635)
- 1699Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
- 1711Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
- 1742Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
- 1774Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
- 1776David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
- 1792Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
- 1794Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
- 1819James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
- 1822William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
- 1867Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
- 1886Zinovios Valvis, Greek politician and Prime Minister (b. 1791)
- 1900Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
- 1900Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- 1904Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
- 1904William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
- 1908Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
- 1924Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
- 1925Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
- 1930Frankie Campbell, American Boxer (b. 1904)
- 1938Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
- 1939Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
- 1940Jean d'Orleans, duc de Guise, Orleanist pretender to the French throne (b. 1874)
- 1942George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
- 1945John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
- 1950Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
- 1956Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
- 1965Moonlight Graham, American baseball player (b. 1879)
- 1967George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
- 1967Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
- 1967Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
- 1968Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910)
- 1970Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect (b. 1886)
- 1971Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
- 1973Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician (b. 1875)
- 1976Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
- 1977Károly Kós, Hungarian writer, architect, ethnologist and politician (b. 1883)
- 1979Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
- 1980Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
- 1981Nassos Kedrakas, Greek actor (b. 1915)
- 1984Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
- 1984Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
- 1984Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- 1985Samantha Smith, American social activist (b. 1972)
- 1990Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
- 1995Doug Stegmeyer, American bassist (b.1951)
- 1997Camilla Spira, German actress (b. 1906)
- 1999Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
- 2000Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 2000Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
- 2001Aaliyah, American R&B singer and actress (b. 1979)
- 2001Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
- 2001Ken Tyrrell, British race driver and F1 team principal (b. 1924)
- 2001Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
- 2002Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
- 2002Giannis Gionakis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
- 2005Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
- 2006Noor Mohamed Hassanali, 2nd president of Trinidad & Tobago (b. 1918)
- 2007Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
- 2008Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
- 2008Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)
- 2009Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1932)
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