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Notable Historical Events for August 25th

1968Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship

1985Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf

1924Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn

1948Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's

1950Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title

1987Madonna sings in Rotterdam

201330th MTV Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars wins

1970Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)

1963Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open

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Notable Birthdays on August 25th

1930Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)

1958Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)

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Notable Weddings on August 25th

2000"Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss (39) in Los Angeles

1870German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland

1941Jazz musician Billie Holiday (26) weds trombonist Jimmy Monroe

1928Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna

1955"Dracula" actor Bela Lugosi (72) weds Hope Lininger (36)

1962Retired general Colin Powell (25) weds audiologist Alma Johnson (24) at the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama

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Notable Deaths on August 25th

1900Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55

2012Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82

1908Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55

1688Henry Morgan, English pirate

1984Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59

1776David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65

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