About August 25
August 25, 2025 is the 237th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 176 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 25
- 1258 –Regent 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.
- 1609 –Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1768 –James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1830 –The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1894 –Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- 1898 –700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
- 1912 –The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- 1920 –Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1921 –The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- 1933 –The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
- 1944 –World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 1950 –President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
- 1961 –President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.
- 1980 –Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- 1989 –Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
- 1991 –Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
- 1991 –Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
- 1991 –The Airbus A340 aircraft makes it’s first flight.
- 1991 –The 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
- 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).
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