Template:On this day/25 August

25 August:

• 1270 – King Louis IX o Fraunce dees in Tunis while on the Aicht Crusade.
• 1609 – Galileo Galilei (picturt) demonstrates his first telescope tae Venetian lawmakkers.
• 1944 – Warld War II: Paris is leeberatit bi the Allies.
• 1991 – Linus Torvalds annoonces the first version o whit will become Linux.
• 2001 – American sangster Aaliyah an several members o her record company are killt as their owerlaidit aircraft crashes shortly efter takaff frae Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.

Ivan the Terrible (b. 1530) · Friedrich Nietzsche (d. 1900) · Sean Connery (b. 1930)