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 
 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 
 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)
 1845 - Ludwig II o Bavarie (d. 1886)
 1850 - Charles Richet, French physiologist (d. 1935)
 1911 - Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese politeecian (d. 2013)
 1912 - Erich Honecker, leader o East Germany (d. 1994)
 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist
 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scots actor
 1934 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Preses o Iran (d. 2017)
 1942 - Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2017)
 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, airtist, screiver an animator
 1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scots muisicker
 1987 - Amy Macdonald, Scots sangster
 1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
 1988 - Alexandra Burke, Inglis sangster

 Daiths 
 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)
 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
 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 physicist (b. 1931)
 2016 - Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
 2018 - John McCain, American politeecian (b. 1936)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day o Uruguay

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