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On this day - August 25
766 — Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking ...
1248 — The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification ...
1258 — Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a ...
1270 — Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of ...
1537 — The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving ...
1543 — António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans ...
1580 — War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the ...
1609 — Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian ...
1630 — Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the ...
1758 — Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the ...
1814 — War of 1812: On the second day of the Burning of Washington, ...
1823 — American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear ...
1825 — The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay ...
1830 — The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 — The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York ...
1875 — Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across ...
1883 — France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a ...
1894 — Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the ...
1904 — Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Liaoyang begins.
1912 — The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
1914 — World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven ...
1914 — World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1916 — The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 — Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ...
1933 — Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the ...
1933 — The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and ...
1939 — The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in ...
1939 — The Irish Republican Army carries out the 1939 Coventry ...
1940 — World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal ...
1941 — World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United ...
1942 — World War II: Battle of Milne Bay: Japanese marines assault ...
1942 — World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern ...
1944 — World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1945 — The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ...
1945 — Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its ...
1948 — The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever ...
1950 — To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President ...
1958 — The world's first publicly marketed instant noodles, ...
1960 — The Games of the XVII Olympiad commence in Rome, Italy.
1961 — President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven ...
1967 — George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, ...
1980 — The last performance of the Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth ...
1980 — Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
1981 — Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1985 — Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn/Lewiston ...
1989 — Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 ...
1989 — Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, ...
1991 — Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become ...
1991 — The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by ...
1991 — Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 — Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a ...
2001 — American singer Aaliyah and several members of her entourage ...
2003 — NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into ...
2005 — Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.
2006 — Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced ...
2010 — A Filair Let L-410 Turbolet crashes on approach to Bandundu ...
2011 — Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by ...
2012 — Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the ...
2017 — Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present): One hundred seventy ...
2017 — Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful ...