About August 25
August 25, 2021 is the 237th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 160 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.
- 1537 –The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1580 –Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1830 –The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1835 –The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 1997 –Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
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