25 August

The 25t o August is the 237t day o the year (238t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 128 days bidin.

Events

1718: New Orleans

1778: Triglav, the heichest peak in Slovenie

1825: Banner o Uruguay

• 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope tae Venetian lawmakers.
• 1718 - The ceety o New Orleans in Louisiana is foondit.
• 1768 - James Cook stairts his first voyage.
• 1778 - Triglav, the heichest peak in the Julian Alps, an in present-day Slovenie, is climbed for the first time.
• 1825 - Uruguay declares unthirldom frae Brazil.
• 1830 - The Belgian Revolution stairts.
• 1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person tae soum the Inglis Chainel.
• 1912 - The Kuomintang, Cheenese Naitionalist Pairty, is foondit.
• 1944 - Warld War II: The Allies liberate Paris, endin its occupation bi Germany.
• 1960 - The 1960 Simmer Olympics in Roum stairt.
• 1980 - Zimbabwe jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1981 - Voyager 2 flies bi Saturn.
• 1988 - Lisbon's Auld Toun is devastatit bi fire.
• 1989 - Voyager 2 flies bi Neptune.
• 1991 - Belaroushie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
• 1997 - Umwhile East German leader Egon Krenz is convictit o orderin a shoot-tae-kill policy at the Berlin Waw.
• 2012 - Voyager 1 enters interstellar space.
• 2013 - 42 fowk are kilt in bomb attacks across Iraq.
• 2017 - The Rohingya creesis in Myanmar escalates.
• 2017 - Riots in Northren Indie result in the daiths o 36 fowk efter the rape conviction o self-styled guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
• 2017 - Hurricane Harvey hits Texas.
• 2018 - Pape Francis veesits the Republic o Ireland.

Births

Sir Sean Connery

Amy Macdonald

• 1530 - Ivan the Terrible, Tsar o Roushie (d. 1584)
• 1707 - Louis I o Spain (d. 1724)
• 1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian an poet (d. 1803)
• 1786 - Ludwig I o Bavarie (d. 1868)
• 1827 - William Watson, Baron Watson, Scots politeecian (d. 1899)
• 1845 - Ludwig II o Bavarie (d. 1886)
• 1850 - Charles Richet, French pheesiologist (d. 1935)
• 1862 - Louis Barthou, French politeecian (d. 1934)
• 1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German-Breetish medicinar an biochemist (d. 1981)
• 1911 - Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese politeecian (d. 2013)
• 1912 - Erich Honecker, leader o East Germany (d. 1994)
• 1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American componer (d. 1990)
• 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-American pheesicist
• 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scots actor
• 1934 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Preses o Iran (d. 2017)
• 1942 - Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2017)
• 1949 - Martin Amis, Inglis screiver
• 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, airtist, screiver an animator
• 1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scots muisicker
• 1969 - Catriona Matthew, Scots gowfer
• 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
• 1987 - Amy Macdonald, Scots sangster
• 1987 - Chloe Pirrie, Scots actress
• 1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
• 1987 - Liu Yifei, Cheenese actress
• 1988 - Alexandra Burke, Inglis sangster

Daiths

Statue o James Watt

• 1270 - Louis IX o Fraunce (b. 1214)
• 1330 - James Douglas, Laird o Douglas, Scots knicht an feudal laird (b. 1289)
• 1776 - David Hume, Scots philosopher (b. 1711)
• 1819 - James Watt, Scots inventor (b. 1736)
• 1822 - William Herschel, German-Inglis astronomer (b. 1738)
• 1867 - Michael Faraday, Inglis scientist (b. 1791)
• 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French pheesicist (b. 1852)
• 1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swadish screiver (b. 1900)
• 1984 - Truman Capote, American screiver (b. 1924)
• 2000 - Carl Barks, American airtist (b. 1901)
• 2001 - Aaliyah, American sangster an muisicker (b. 1979)
• 2009 - Ted Kennedy, American politeecian (b. 1932)
• 2012 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (b. 1930)
• 2016 - James Cronin, American pheesicist (b. 1931)
• 2016 - Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2018 - John McCain, American politeecian (b. 1936)

Halidays

• Naitional Day o Uruguay