About August 25
August 25, 2025 is the 237th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Virgo is the sun 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 176 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 25
- 357 –Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum).
- 1248 –The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
- 1258 –Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
- 1537 –The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1825 –Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- 1830 –The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1835 –The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
- 1894 –Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- 1921 –The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- 1942 –World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
- 1942 –World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
- 1950 –President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
- 1980 –Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- 1989 –Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
- 1989 –Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
- 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
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