August 25

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 25. From 1900 until now. August 25 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Sean Connery (1930), Blake Lively (1987) and Claudia Schiffer (1970). Several movies were released around August 25 over the years, such as Room in 2015 directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Spotlight in 2015 directed by Tom McCarthy.
But much more happened on August 25 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Roman festivals - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
RC Saints - Genesius of Arles, Saint Louis IX of France, Saint Joseph Calasanz
Uruguay - National Day (independence from Brazil in 1825).
Philippines - National Heroes' Day.

Events

2018 A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO is sold for $48.4 million at an auction in California, making it the most expensive car ever sold through auction. (Bloomberg)
2017 War in Afghanistan: New Zealand announces the stationing of three more non-combat military personnel in Afghanistan, boosting its military commitment to 13. (Reuters)Four gunmen attack a Shiite mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people. (ABC News)
2016 Philippine Drug War: The death toll in Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs reaches 1,900 people killed. (Al Jazeera)
2015 Boko Haram: A teenage girl suicide bomber kills five people and injures fourteen others in the Damaturu area in northeast Nigeria. (AP via Fox News)
2014 War in Donbass:: Ukrainian forces say they managed to stop a larger part of a convoy of around 50 armoured vehicles, which entered Ukraine from the border with Russia near Novoazovsk. ('Reuters)
2013 Syrian civil war:: The Syrian government allows UN inspectors to visit the site of suspect chemical weapons attack outside the outskirt of Damascus. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war
2011 More than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. (BBC News) (AP via Youtube)
2010 Battle of Mogadishu (2010):
2009 U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Ben Bernanke for his second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Bloomberg)
2008 The US Mint releases the 2008 Alaska state quarter dollar coin to circulation.
2007 A lawyer for missing coal miners in the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah says that a sixth probe has not found enough space for the men to survive. (AP via AZ Central)
2006 The United Nations Security Council approves a new peacekeeping mission in East Timor, United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), which will have 1,608 police and up to 35 military liaison officers. (Xinhua News Agency)
2005 French investigating magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière warns that Al-Qaeda is planning a terrorism attack in Asia, singling out Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore as potential targets. (Financial Times)
2004 Astronomers announce the discovery of a third extrasolar planet orbiting Mu Arae. The planet may be the first rocky world detected orbiting a star other than the Sun.
2003 The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
2002 The first series of the British reality show ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' started on ITV1
2001 Died: Aaliyah, contemporary R&B and pop singer, dies in a plane crash at the age of 22.
1997 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
1996 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs vs. Glam, world record 16 x 6
1992 Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
1991 Getting Married closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 70 performances
1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1987 Dow Jones Industrial Stock Average reaches record 2722.42
1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1984 French airship capsizes
1983 US and the USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
1981 Jeff Schwartz sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09).
1980 42nd Street opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
1979 Madwoman of Central Park West closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 performances
1978 Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1976 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
1973 Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
1967 Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1964 Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression
1961 Brazilian President Janio Quadros, resigns
1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
1957 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
1956 To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yanks release Phil Rizzuto
1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1954 Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
1953 The general strike ends in France.
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1951 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1950 Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title.
1948 The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: ''Confrontation Day'' between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 km/h
1946 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland Golf Club - Portland, Oregon
1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine.
1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
1943 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
1942 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
1941 English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
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.
1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1936 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
1934 Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of McGuffey, Ohio, during the Hardin County onion pickers strike.
1933 The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina andWinnipeg
1926 Pavlos Koundouris becomes President of Greece
1925 Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
1924 International maritime treaty drawn
1921 US signs peace treaty with Germany.
1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
1917 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
1916 US Congress establishes the National Park Service as part of the Department of the Interior.
1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1914 Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1912 Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
1910 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
1905 'Ancient Order of Druids' initiate neo-druidic rituals at Stonehenge in England.
1904 James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 Judiciary Act passed.
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