August 25 August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. Events 1500-1899 1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. 1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal. 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded. 1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil. 1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates The Great Moon Hoax. 1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel. 1900-1999 1910 - Yellow Cab is founded. 1912 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded. 1916 - United States National Park Service is created. 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated. 1942 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea 1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. 1946 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship. 1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike. 1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome. 1975 - Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the classic album that would launch him to superstardom. 1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix. 1980 - The Broadway musical 42nd Street opened; the show's director, Gower Champion, died earlier that day. 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe. 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune. 1991 - Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he is working on a new free computer operating system. 2000-2099 2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories. 2003 - 52 killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India. Births 1500-1899 1530 - Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584) 1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688) 1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806) 1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794) 1796 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876) 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Agency (d. 1884) 1836 - Bret Harte, author (d. 1902) 1841 - Emil Kocher, medical researcher (d. 1917) 1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886) 1850 - Charles Richet, scientist 1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland 1945-59 (d. 1966) 1900-1999 1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972) 1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971) 1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993) 1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994) 1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist (d. 1973) 1916 - Van Johnson, actor 1917 - Mel Ferrer, actor 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer (d. 1990) 1918 - Richard Greene, actor 1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998) 1921 - Monty Hall, game show host 1927 - Althea Gibson, tennis champion (d. 2003) 1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, actor 1933 - Regis Philbin, television host 1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor 1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author 1938 - David Canary, actor 1939 - John Badham, film director 1940 - José Van Dam, baritone singer 1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter 1944 - Anthony Heald, actor 1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War 1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball pitcher 1947 - Anne Archer, actress 1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist 1949 - Martin Amis, novelist 1949 - John Savage, actor 1951 - Robert Joseph Glass, artist 1952 - Peter Wolf, singer, composer 1954 - Elvis Costello, songwriter, musician 1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, screenwriter 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer 1962 - Viv Campbell, Def Leppard guitarist 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor 1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel Deaths 1000-1899 1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, in Acre (b. 1142) 1270 - Louis IX of France, (Saint Louis) on crusade in Tunisia. 1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer 1822 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738) 1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist 1900-1999 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher 1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician and prime minister (b. 1840) 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist 1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI 1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent 1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia 1967 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader 1971 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890) 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 1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899) 1985 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress 1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer 2000-2099 2000 - Carl Barks, illustrator of Donald Duck 2001 - Aaliyah, singer (plane crash) 2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist Holidays and observances Uruguay - National Day. Roman Empire - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops. Philippines - National Heroes' Day. Australia - Claytonymas. Held in honour of Australian war heroes. 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