Notable Historical Events on August 25th
August 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
325 |
Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity |
357 |
Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught |
1212 |
Children's crusade under Nicolas (10) reaches Genoa |
1248 |
The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht. |
1330 |
AntiPope Nicholas V, having obtained assurance of pardon, presents a confession of his sins to Pope John XXII, at Avignon, who absolved him |
1425 |
Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail |
1499 |
Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians |
1537 |
The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. |
1540 |
Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River |
1566 |
Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht |
1580 |
Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal |
1609 |
Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers |
1628 |
Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia |
1689 |
Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French |
1689 |
Montreal taken by Iroquois |
1698 |
Tsar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through Western Europe |
1704 |
Battle of Malaga: French vs English & Dutch fleet |
1718 |
Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, founded |
1768 |
Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his first voyage, on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean |
1795 |
Curacao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher |
1802 |
Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France |
1804 |
Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England) |
1814 |
British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812) |
1825 |
Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day) |
1829 |
President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses |
1830 |
Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins the Belgian Revolution |
1835 |
New York Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel |
1862 |
US Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves |
1864 |
Combination rail & ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda |
1864 |
Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station |
1875 |
Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m) |
1886 |
1st international polo meet (US vs England) |
1888 |
8th US Men's Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60) |
1890 |
Would be start of England/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford washed out |
1894 |
-26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed |
1894 |
Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. |
1898 |
700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece. |
1904 |
james j jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
1908 |
Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race |
1908 |
National Association of Colored Nurses forms |
1910 |
30th US Men's Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (6-1 5-7 6-0 6-8 6-1) |
1910 |
Yellow Cab is founded. |
1912 |
1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin |
1912 |
Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia |
1912 |
The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded. |
1914 |
-26] Belgian offensive at Antwerp |
1914 |
Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven, Belgium |
1914 |
German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp, Belgium, 10 die |
1914 |
German troops march into France and push French army to the Sedan |
1915 |
The British decide to try capture Constantinople and force Turkey out of the war; 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli |
1915 |
Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage |
1916 |
US Department of Interior forms National Park Service |
1917 |
37th US Men's Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (5-7 8-6 6-3 6-3) |
1919 |
1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London) |
1920 |
1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey) |
1920 |
Russia suffers a decisive defeat in the battle of Warsaw against Poland |
1921 |
US signs peace treaty with Germany |
1921 |
Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record |
1921 |
The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, a civil uprising in Logan County, West Virginia |
1922 |
Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game |
1924 |
International maritime treaty drawn |
1924 |
Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn |
1925 |
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY) |
1925 |
Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg |
1926 |
Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece |
1928 |
Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg |
1929 |
Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight |
1936 |
3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each |
1937 |
Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast |
1940 |
First British night bombing of Germany (Berlin) |
1940 |
Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union |
1941 |
British & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran |
1941 |
German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad |
1942 |
SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht |
1943 |
10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471) |
1943 |
German occupiers impose 72-hour work week |
1943 |
Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia |
1943 |
Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka |
1943 |
US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II |
1944 |
France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame |
1944 |
General De Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation |
1944 |
Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday) |
1944 |
US 12nd Army Corps reaches Troyes |
1945 |
Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine |
1946 |
28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore |
1947 |
Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph |
1948 |
Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's |
1950 |
US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike |
1950 |
Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title |
1951 |
Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game |
1952 |
Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0 |
1952 |
Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth |
1954 |
Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m) |
1955 |
Last Soviet forces leave Austria |
1956 |
To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto |
1957 |
Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao |
1960 |
17th summer olympics opens in Rome |
1960 |
AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies |
1960 |
Demonstrations against premier Lumumba |
1961 |
Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1963 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open |
1963 |
Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding |
1964 |
Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression |
1967 |
The Beatles go to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
1967 |
Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1 |
1967 |
Paraguay accepts its constitution |
1967 |
Train crash at Beesd, 2 die |
1968 |
Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship |
1968 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf |
1968 |
NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game & homered |
1969 |
Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
1970 |
Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles) |
1971 |
Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations |
1973 |
Butch Trucks, drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks a leg in a car crash |
1973 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1973 |
Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings |
1973 |
Zambia adopts constitution |
1974 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1974 |
LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup |
1976 |
Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion |
1976 |
Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings |
1978 |
Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike |
1979 |
"Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs |
1979 |
California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2 |
1979 |
Somali adopts constitution |
1980 |
Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances |
1980 |
Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs |
1981 |
Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09) |
1981 |
Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km) |
1983 |
Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark |
1983 |
US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact |
1984 |
French airship capsizes |
1984 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1985 |
Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d) |
1985 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1985 |
STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem |
1986 |
A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run |
1987 |
Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42 |
1987 |
Madonna sings in Rotterdam |
1988 |
Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston |
1988 |
Serious fire destroys historic center of Lisbon |
1988 |
Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war |
1988 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-214 |
1989 |
After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps |
1989 |
Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary. |
1990 |
Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½") |
1990 |
UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq |
1991 |
"Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 70 perfs |
1991 |
43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig win |
1991 |
91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges |
1991 |
Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds |
1991 |
Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games |
1991 |
Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62) |
1991 |
Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament |
1991 |
Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic republics |
1991 |
Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53) |
1991 |
White-Russia declares its independence |
1991 |
Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system. |
1992 |
Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA |
1995 |
Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6 |
1995 |
Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves |
1996 |
96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods |
1996 |
Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic |
1997 |
Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy. |
2003 |
The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko). |
2012 |
330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war |
2012 |
39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery |
2012 |
85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar |
2012 |
Voyager 1 spacecraft, enters interstellar space (launched in 1977), - first spacecraft to do so |
2013 |
41 people are killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Iraq |
2013 |
4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico |
2013 |
30th MTV Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars wins |
2016 |
Italy earthquake has killed at least 120 people - prime minister |
2016 |
Ryan Lochte to join latest 'Dancing with the Stars' cast |
2016 |
Zika virus may linger in babies' blood for months, with unknown effects |
2016 |
The National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary |
2017 |
Taylor Swift releases new single 'Look What You Made Me Do' |
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