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The 25t o August is the 237t day o the year (238t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 128 days bidin.
Events[eedit | eedit soorce]
- 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.
- 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 - Riots in Northren Indie result in the daiths o 36 fowk efter the rape conviction o self-styled guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
- 2018 - Pape Francis veesits the Republic o Ireland.
Births[eedit | eedit soorce]
- 1530 - Ivan the Terrible, Tsar o Roushie (d. 1584)
- 1707 - Louis I o Spain (d. 1724)
- 1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German filosofer, 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)
- 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
- 1988 - Alexandra Burke, Inglis sangster
Daiths[eedit | eedit soorce]
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 filosofer (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 filosofer (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[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Naitional Day o Uruguay
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