About August 25
August 25, 2022 is the 237th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 150 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.
- 1580 –Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1920 –Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1950 –President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
- 1981 –Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
- 1989 –Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
- 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 –The Airbus A340 aircraft makes it’s first flight.
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