What are the important events that happened on August 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 25 is the 238th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 12, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,040 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatriacontaoctagon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac 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 157 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,265 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 25 Historical Events
- 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).
- 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.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
- 1912 –The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- 1914 –World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- 1939 –The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 1945 –Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
- 1961 –President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.
Who were born on August 25?
- 1911 –Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
- 1916 –Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1917 –Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress
- 1931 –Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
- 1946 –Charlie Sanders, American football player
- 1949 –Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss)
- 1951 –Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
- 1952 –Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1957 –Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre director
- 1979 –Deanna Nolan, American basketball player
Who died on August 25?
- 383 –Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
- 1482 –Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
- 1711 –Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
- 1794 –Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
- 1886 –Zinovios Valvis, Greek politician and Prime Minister (b. 1791)
- 1942 –George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
- 1965 –Moonlight Graham, American baseball player (b. 1879)
- 1980 –Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
- 2001 –Ken Tyrrell, British race driver and F1 team principal (b. 1924)
- 2002 –Giannis Gionakis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
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