25 August

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The 25t o August is the 237t day o the year (238t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 128 days bidin.

Events

1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope tae Venetian lawmakers.
1718 - The ceety o New Orleans in Louisiana is foondit.
1768 - James Cook stairts his first voyage.
1778 - Triglav, the heichest peak in the Julian Alps, an in present-day Slovenie, is climbed for the first time.
1825 - Uruguay declares unthirldom frae Brazil.
1830 - The Belgian Revolution stairts.
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person tae soum the Inglis Chainel.
1912 - The Kuomintang, Cheenese Naitionalist Pairty, is foondit.
1944 - Warld War II: The Allies liberate Paris, endin its occupation bi Germany.
1960 - The 1960 Simmer Olympics in Roum stairt.
1980 - Zimbabwe jyns the Unitit Naitions.
1981 - Voyager 2 flies bi Saturn.
1988 - Lisbon's Auld Toun is devastatit bi fire.
1989 - Voyager 2 flies bi Neptune.
1991 - Belaroushie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
1997 - Umwhile East German leader Egon Krenz is convictit o orderin a shoot-tae-kill policy at the Berlin Waw.
2012 - Voyager 1 enters interstellar space.
2013 - 42 fowk are kilt in bomb attacks across Iraq.
2017 - The Rohingya creesis in Myanmar escalates.
2017 - Riots in Northren Indie result in the daiths o 36 fowk efter the rape conviction o self-styled guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
2017 - Hurricane Harvey hits Texas.
2018 - Pape Francis veesits the Republic o Ireland.

1530 - Ivan the Terrible, Tsar o Roushie (d. 1584)
1707 - Louis I o Spain (d. 1724)
1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian an poet (d. 1803)
1786 - Ludwig I o Bavarie (d. 1868)
1845 - Ludwig II o Bavarie (d. 1886)
1850 - Charles Richet, French physiologist (d. 1935)
1911 - Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese politeecian (d. 2013)
1912 - Erich Honecker, leader o East Germany (d. 1994)
1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scots actor
1934 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Preses o Iran (d. 2017)
1942 - Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2017)
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, airtist, screiver an animator
1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scots muisicker
1987 - Amy Macdonald, Scots sangster
1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
1988 - Alexandra Burke, Inglis sangster