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 237^th 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.

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.

August 25 Historical Events

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1948 –
  The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: “Confrontation Day” between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
• 1961 –
  President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.
• 1989 –
  Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
• 1989 –
  Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
• 1997 –
  Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

Who were born on August 25?

• 1910 –
  Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
• 1917 –
  Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress
• 1918 –
  Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
• 1918 –
  Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
• 1928 –
  Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 –
  Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
• 1960 –
  Georg Zellhofer, Austrian footballer
• 1969 –
  Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
• 1974 –
  Eric Millegan, American actor
• 1976 –
  Damon Jones, American basketball player

Who died on August 25?

• 1688 –
  Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (b. c. 1635)
• 1867 –
  Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
• 1939 –
  Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
• 1950 –
  Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
• 1977 –
  Károly Kós, Hungarian writer, architect, ethnologist and politician (b. 1883)
• 1985 –
  Samantha Smith, American social activist (b. 1972)
• 1990 –
  Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
• 1995 –
  Doug Stegmeyer, American bassist (b.1951)
• 2001 –
  Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• 2002 –
  Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)