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
- 357 –Battle 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).
- 1537 –The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1768 –James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1835 –The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
- 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.
- 1914 –World 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.
- 1916 –The United States National Park Service is created.
- 1921 –The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
- 1942 –World 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 1945 –Ten 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.
- 1948 –The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: “Confrontation Day” between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
- 1989 –Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
- 1991 –Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
- 1991 –The Airbus A340 aircraft makes it’s first flight.
- 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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