What are the important events that happened on August 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 25 is the 238th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 12, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,724,544,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatriacontaoctagon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac 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 157 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,265 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 25 Historical Events
- 1537 –The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1768 –James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1835 –The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- 1921 –The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 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.
- 1991 –Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
- 1991 –Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
- 1991 –The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence
Who were born on August 25?
- 1530 –Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
- 1719 –Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
- 1905 –Saint Faustina, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
- 1913 –Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1917 –Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (d. 2008)
- 1919 –George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
- 1938 –David Canary, American actor
- 1958 –Christian LeBlanc, American actor
- 1974 –Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
- 1977 –Jonathan Togo, American actor
Who died on August 25?
- 1711 –Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
- 1742 –Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
- 1867 –Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
- 1904 –Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
- 1904 –William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
- 1925 –Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
- 1950 –Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
- 1970 –Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect (b. 1886)
- 1976 –Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
- 2001 –Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
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