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What happened in history on this day: August 25?
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- 1270 - Louis IX of France dies while on his second crusade.
- 1530 - Birth of Ivan IV (the Terrible) first tsar of Russia (1533-84).
- 1580 - Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1609 - Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1689 - Montréal taken by Iroquois.
- 1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, founded.
- 1724 - Birth of George Stubbs England, animal painter (House Frightened by Lion).
- 1758 - (to August 27) Battle of Zorndorf, King Friedrich versus Russian army under general William Fermor. Russians lose 21529 killed, wounded, and missing (7970 killed). Prussians lose 11390 total (3680 killed).
- 1819 - Birth of Allan Pinkerton; founded Chicago detective agency.
- 1822 - Death of William Herschel; musician, composer, scientist (first detection of infrared radiation, discovery of moons around Saturn, discovery of planet Uranus).
- 1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil.
- 1830 - Belgium revolts against Netherlands.
- 1835 - The New York Sun publishes the first of six articles about life discovered on the Moon, attributed to astronomer John Herschel.
- 1836 - Birth of Bret Harte; US author (Outcasts of Poker Flat).
- 1841 - Birth of Theodor Kocher; Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel Prize 1909).
- 1845 - Birth of Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86).
- 1875 - Matthew Webb becomes first to swim English Channel (21 hours 45 minutes).
- 1886 - First international polo meet (US versus England).
- 1888 - Henry Slocum wins US Lawn Tennis Association singles title.
- 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, dies in Weimar, Germany.
- 1901 - Death of Clara Maass, army nurse who sacrificied her life at age 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever.
- 1902 - Birth of Stefan Wolpe in Berlin, Germany; composer (Zeus and Elidco).
- 1904 - Jim Jefferies knocks out Jack Munroe and retains boxing heavyweight title.
- 1905 - Birth of Clara Bow; silent movie actress (Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships).
- 1908 - Allen Winter wins US first $50,000 trotting race.
- 1909 - Birth of Michael Rennie; actor (The Robe, Klatuu - Day the Earth Stood Still).
- 1909 - Birth of Ruby Keeler in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; dancer (Dames).
- 1910 - Birth of Pierre Musy in Switzerland; 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936).
- 1912 - Birth of Erich Honecker in Germany; East German political leader.
- 1913 - Birth of Walt Kelly; cartoonist, creator of Pogo.
- 1914 - Birth of Alexei Haieff in Blagovestchensk, Siberia; composer (Princess Zondilda).
- 1915 - Birth of Walter Trampler in Munich, Germany; violist (Beaux Arts Trio).
- 1916 - Birth of Van Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island, USA; actor (Brigadoon).
- 1916 - US Congress establishes the National Park Service as part of the Department of the Interior.
- 1917 - Birth of Don Defore in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA; actor (George - Hazel, Ozzie and Harriet).
- 1917 - Birth of Mel Ferrer in Elberon, New Jersey, USA; actor (The Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor).
- 1918 - Birth of Richard Greene in Plymouth, England; actor (Adventures of Robin Hood).
- 1919 - First scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris, France to London, England).
- 1919 - Birth of George C Wallace; American politician (Democrat-Governor-Alabama) presidential candidate.
- 1920 - First US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey).
- 1921 - Birth of Monty Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; game show host (Let's Make a Deal).
- 1921 - Birth of Brian Moore in Ireland; novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife).
- 1921 - US signs peace treaty with Germany.
- 1921 - New York Yankees' pitcher Harry Harper hits three batters in an inning, tying record.
- 1922 - Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league baseball game.
- 1923 - Birth of Monty Hall in Winnipeg, Canada; TV game show host (Let's Make a Deal).
- 1924 - Washington Senators' Walter Johnson second no-hitter beats Saint Louis Browns, 2-0 in 7 innings.
- 1925 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem, New York).
- 1925 - Helen Willis wins her third straight US Lawn Tennis Open.
- 1930 - Birth of Graham Javis in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Charlie - Mary Hartman).
- 1930 - Birth of Page Johnson in West Virginia, USA; actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake).
- 1930 - Birth of Sean Connery; actor (James Bond films, Man Who Would Be King, AFI Presentations, Kennedy Center Honors).
- 1931 - Birth of Regis Philbin; American television personality (Live With Regis And Kelly, Joey Bishop Show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire).
- 1933 - Birth of Tom Skerritt in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama, Picket Fences, Brothers and Sisters).
- 1934 - Birth of Valery F Bykovsky in USSR; cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22 31/39).
- 1935 - Birth of David Canary in Elwood, Indiana, USA; actor (Peyton Place, Candy - Bonanza).
- 1936 - Three Boston Braves' players hit twice in an inning getting two hits each.
- 1938 - Birth of David Canary; actor (All My Children, Bonanza).
- 1939 - In London, an Agreement of Mutual Assistance is signed by Poland and Great Britain. If Germany attacks either nation, the other will aid in its defence.
- 1940 - Birth of José Van Dam in Brussels, Belgium; bass-baritone (François d'Assisif).
- 1942 - Japanese forces launch amphibious operation with about 1200 men on Milne Bay, New Guinea.
- 1942 - Death of George, Duke of Kent, in routine air accident as Sunderland flying boat crashes into low hill Eagles Rock in Caithness, Scotland. This is the first member of royal family to die while on active military service since the 15th century.
- 1942 - Birth of Margaret Murdock; American small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-1976).
- 1943 - US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands.
- 1944 - Birth of Anthony Heald; actor (Boston Public).
- 1944 - French General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque leads the 2nd Division into Paris, France.
- 1944 - (1530 hours) German commander of Paris, France, Von Choltitz surrenders the city to Allied armies.
- 1944 - Finland requests an armistice with the Soviet Union.
- 1944 - French General Charles de Gaulle enters liberated Paris.
- 1945 - Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine.
- 1946 - Ben Hogan wins the PGA championship.
- 1946 - Birth of Rollie Fingers; relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics).
- 1948 - Birth of Danny Smythe; drummer (The Box Tops).
- 1949 - Birth of Henry Paul; singer (BlackHawk and Outlaws).
- 1949 - Birth of Gene Simmons in Queens, New York, USA; rocker (KISS - "Beth").
- 1949 - Birth of John Savage in Long Island, New York, USA; actor (The Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers, Carnivale, Dark Angel).
- 1949 - RCA announced the development of a color TV system compatible with existing black and white.
- 1950 - US President Harry Truman orders army to seize control of railroad to avert a strike.
- 1950 - Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title.
- 1951 - Birth of Rob Halford; heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest - "Got Another Thing Coming").
- 1952 - Birth of Geoff Downes; keyboardist (Asia).
- 1952 - Detroit Tigers' Virgil Trucks second no-hitter of year, beats New York Yankees, 1-0.
- 1954 - Birth of Elvis Costello AKA Declan Patrick McManus; rocker ("Allison").
- 1954 - Birth of John Savage in Old Bethpage, New York, USA; actor (Jim Malloy - Gibbsville).
- 1954 - Birth of Martin Jourard; keyboardist/vocalist (Motels - "Only the Lonely").
- 1956 - Anders Franzén locates the sunken (in 1628) Swedish warship Vasa at the bottom of Stockholm harbor, off Beckholmen island, in 110 feet of water.
- 1956 - Birth of Matt Aitken; rocker (Stock Aitken and Waterman - "Road Block").
- 1958 - NBC debuts the TV game show Concentration, with host Hugh Downs.
- 1960 - (to September 11) The Games of the XVII Olympiad are held in Rome, Italy.
- 1960 - AFL begins placing players' names on back of their jerseys.
- 1961 - Birth of Joanne Whalley; actress (Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onnassis, Scarlett).
- 1961 - Birth of Ally Walker; actress (Profiler, Santa Barbara).
- 1961 - Birth of Billy Ray Cyrus; country singer, actor (Doc, Hannah Montana).
- 1962 - Birth of Vivian Campbell; heavy metal rocker (White Snake - "Here I Go Again", Def Leppard).
- 1964 - Birth of Blair Underwood in Tacoma, Washington, USA; actor (Jonathan - L.A. Law, Dirty Sexy Money).
- 1965 - Death of Amelia zur Helle Thyssen in Puchhof, Bavaria; head of the Thyssen steel company, largest in Europe.
- 1966 - Birth of Robert Maschio; actor (Scrubs).
- 1967 - Birth of Jeff Tweedy; singer (Wilco).
- 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, is assassinated.
- 1967 - Minnesota Twins' Dean Chance second no-hitter of month beats Cleveland Indians, 2-1.
- 1967 - Paraguay accepts its constitution.
- 1968 - John George, actor (Kolb - Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at age 70.
- 1968 - New York Yankees' outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings and beats the Detroit Tigers 6-5; he played right field in the second game and hit a home run.
- 1969 - Detriot Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montréal (NFL expo).
- 1970 - Birth of Claudia Schiffer in Rheinbach, Germany; super model (Elle, Rolling Stone), actress (Dharma and Greg, MADtv).
- 1974 - Birth of Eric Millegan; actor (Bones).
- 1974 - Los Angeles Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup.
- 1975 - Death of Fritz Wotruba in Vienna, Austria; minimalist abstract sculptor.
- 1976 - New York Yankees beat Minnesota Twins 5-4 in 19 innings.
- 1978 - Birth of Kel Mitchell; American actor (Kenan and Kel).
- 1979 - California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2.
- 1979 - Stan Kenton, American jazz pianist, orchestra leader (Music 55), dies at age 67 (born 1911).
- 1980 - Gower Champion, dancer (Marge and Gower Champion Show), dies at age 60.
- 1981 - Birth of Rachel Bilson; actress (The O.C.).
- 1981 - Jeff Schwartz sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09).
- 1981 - Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km).
- 1983 - Triple A baseball's Louisville breaks one million fan mark.
- 1983 - US and USSR sign US$10 billion grain pact.
- 1984 - Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies (born 1924).
- 1984 - Reinhard "Teddy" Suhren dies of stomach cancer at age 68. Suhren was a German WWII submarine commander, one of five to receive the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and Crossed Swords.
- 1985 - Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USA welcomes three-year old Brooks Arthur Charles Burr as the park's 250-millionth visitor.
- 1985 - New York Mets' Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games, at age 20 years 9 months 9 days).
- 1985 - Samantha Smith, American activist/actress (Elizabeth - Lime Street), dies at age 13 (born 1972).
- 1986 - At Tiger Stadium, Oakland Athletics' rookie Mark McGwire hits his first major league home run off of Walt Terrell.
- 1986 - Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at age 51.
- 1987 - Birth of Blake Lively; actress (Gossip Girl).
- 1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-214.
- 1988 - Price Daniel, American politician (Governor/Senator-Democrat-Texas), dies at age 77.
- 1988 - A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center in Portugal.
- 1989 - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune.
- 1990 - Li Hui Rong of China sets the triple jump women's record (47 feet 8.5 inches).
- 1990 - United Nations security council authorizes military action against Iraq.
- 1991 - Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to a Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing (Linux).
- 1991 - Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
- 1991 - Carl Lewis runs 100m in 9.86 seconds.
- 1997 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
- 2000 - Death of Jack Nitzche at age 73 of a heart attack; arranger/producer (The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, The Walker Brothers), songwriter ("Up Where We Belong", "Needles And Pins).
- 2001 - A Cessna 402 aircraft carrying nine people crashes in the Bahamas, killing all aboard. The cause appeared to be engine failure due to the plane being overloaded.
- 2003 - Two bomb blasts in Mumbai, India kill 52.
- 2005 - Saint Louis Cardinals' pitcher Tony LaRussa wins his 2,195th career game, moving into third place in all-time major league history.
- 2007 - Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in Hyderabad, India.
- 2007 - Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declares a national state of emergency after a series of devastating wildfires ravage western Peloponese and southern Euboea, killing 68 people.
- 2008 - Am Itek Air Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, killing 68 out of the 90 passengers and crew.
- 2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Ben Bernanke to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman.
- 2009 - South Korea launches its first space rocket, though a scientific satellite it was carrying failed to enter into its proper orbit.
- 2009 - Afghanistan bomb kills 43 in Kandahar.
- 2009 - U.S. Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, brother of assassinated president John Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy, dies at age 77 of brain cancer in Massachusetts, USA.
- 2010 - Coordinated attacks on Iraqi security forces throughout the country kill at least 62 people and wound over 250.
- 2012 - Death of Neil Armstrong at age 82 following cardiovascular surgery; American astronaut (Apollo 11 moon landing 1969).
- 2017 - (to August 30) Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion, making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
- 2020 - Africa is declared free of wild polio, the second virus to be eradicated from the continent since smallpox 40 years ago.
- 2021 - Death of Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini, 7th Prime Minister of Yemen (born 1932).
- 2022 - Death of Mable John at age 91 at home in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer (The Raelettes).
- 2023 - Simone Biles wins a record 8th all-around title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships.
- 2023 - Twelve people are killed and about 80 injured in Mahamasina, Madagascar, as the sports stadium opens for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games.
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