About August 25
August 25, 2024 is the 238th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 157 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.
- 1580 –Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1609 –Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1825 –Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
- 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.
- 1916 –The United States National Park Service is created.
- 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.
- 1980 –Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- 1981 –Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
- 1989 –Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
- 1989 –Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
- 1991 –Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
- 1997 –Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
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