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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 12, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 487,800 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 ‘dihectatriacontaheptagon’ day.
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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 176 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 4,630 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 25 Historical Events
- 1537 –The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1825 –Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- 1894 –Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- 1898 –700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
- 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.
- 1916 –The United States National Park Service is created.
- 1920 –Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1980 –Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- 1991 –Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
Who were born on August 25?
- 1561 –Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
- 1802 –Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
- 1898 –Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
- 1917 –Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (d. 2008)
- 1938 –Frederick Forsyth, English author
- 1946 –Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children’s author
- 1956 –Takeshi Okada, Japanese football manager
- 1962 –David Packer, American actor
- 1968 –Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality
- 1987 –Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
Who died on August 25?
- 1227 –Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire (b. 1162)
- 1330 –Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
- 1554 –Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)
- 1794 –Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
- 1867 –Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
- 1967 –George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
- 1976 –Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
- 1999 –Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
- 2000 –Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 2008 –Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)
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