The August 25th is the 237e Jour of the Année (238e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Before JC

• 218 av. J.C: The general Carthaginian Hannibal crosses the the Rhone to the head of his army, and moves towards the Alps and the Italy.

1 to 1900

• 325 : End of the council of fine Nicée putting at the Arianisme.

• 1580 : The Spain gains a battle against the Portugal with Alcantara.
• 1704 : The Britanniques seize Gibraltar.
• 1718 : Foundation of La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louisiana)
• 1825: The Uruguay declares independent of the Brésil
• 1830: Beginning of the Belgian Revolution following a representation of the Dumb woman of Portici with the Theater of the Currency with Brussels
• 1875: Matthew Webb carries out the first crossing of the Manche to the stroke.

20th century

• 1910 : Creation of the yellow taxis.

• 1912 : The nationalist party Chinese Kuomintang is founded.
• 1914 : Conquest of the German colony of the Togo by the British troops free .
• 1920: End of the battles of Warsaw, started the August 13rd. The Red Army is pushed back.
• 1942 : Robert Wagner issues the obligatory military service for 130.000 Alsaciens and Mosellans. It is the beginning of the In spite of us
• 1944: Release of Paris.
• Massacre of With a grid
• 1947: The French troops take again Ampasimanjeva with insurgent the Malagasy.
• 1949 : World congress of the intellectuals for peace, with Wroclaw by the world Movement of the partisans of peace.
• 1960 : Opening of the 17th Olympic Games in Rome.
• 1976 : Resignation of the government Chirac. Raymond Barre replaces it with the head of the government. Maurice Papon is Minister for the Budget.
• 1980 : Microsoft announces its own version of UNIX: Xenix
• 1981 : Overflight of the planet Saturn by the probe To travel 2.
• 1989 : The space probe Voyager 2 flies near Neptune
• 1990: The Tadjikistan is the thirteenth Soviet republic on fifteen to proclaim its Indépendance.
• 1991 :
• Independence of the Bielorussia
• Linus Torvalds known as for the first time in a message on the Newsgroup comp.os.minix which he works on new a free Operating system.
• 1992 : The Belorusse Parliament adopts the “law on the independence of the State” to guarantee putsch of Moscow. The Belorusse Communist party and the Komsomol are prohibited.
• 2000 :
• Eleven British officers of the 1st Irish Regiment are taken as an hostage at the time of a patrol by militiamans of the West Side Boys Sierra-léonais.
• In Colombia, of the crop-spraying airplanes of the government destroying the cultures of Coke is taken for target by the gunners of the FARC close to the village of Penas Coloradas.

21e century

• 2001 : Three Israeli soldiers are killed by a commando Palestinian at the time of the attack of a Jewish colony in the Gaza Strip.

• 2003 :
• Launching of the infra-red Space telescope of the Cap Canaveral
• 52 died at the time of two bomb attacks with Mumbai, India.
• the French secret services thwart an coup attempt of State in Ivory Coast organized from France by Ibrahim Coulibaly (FPI, party of Laurent Gbagbo). This one is imprisoned, then released in September.
• 2004 : Two simultaneous crash landings of Russian airliners , victims of bomb attacks, make 89 dead.

Births

• 1530 : Ivan IV of Russia (“Ivan the Terrible”) († 1584).

• 1624 : François of Aix of the Chair, confessor of the king Louis XIV († January 20th 1709)
• 1707: Louis Ier, king d' Espagne. († August 31st 1724).
• 1717 : Carmontelle, writer and painter French († December 26th 1806)
• 1836: Bret Harte, author († 1902).
• 1841 : Emil Kocher, researcher in medicine.
• 1845 : Louis II of Bavaria.
• 1850 : Charles Richet, scientist.
• 1900 : Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist.
• 1902 : Stefan Wolpe, type-setter († 1972).
• 1909
• Michael Disavows, actor († 1971).
• Ruby Keeler, singer, actress († 1993).
• 1916 : Van Johnson, actor.
• 1917 : Mel To shoe, actor.
• 1918 :
• Leonard Bernstein, type-setter and American leader († 1990).
• Richard Greene, actor.
• 1927 : Althea Gibson, champion of Tennis.
• 1929 : Gordon Sherwood, type-setter.
• 1930 : Sean Connery, British actor .
• 1932 : Ricet Barrier, French singer.
• 1933
• Wayne Shorter, musician of Jazz.
• Tom Skerritt, American actor.
• 1938
• David Canary, actor.
• Frederick Forsyth, journalist and British novelist .
• 1939 : John Badham, realizer and British producer.
• 1941 : Marshall Brickman, scenario writer.
• 1944 :
• Anthony Heald, actor.
• Jacques Demers, trainer of hockey and sporting commentator.
• 1945 : Philippe Adnot, French political personality
• 1947: Anne Archer, actress.
• 1949 :
• Gene Simmons, bass player.
• Martin Friends, British writer.
• 1950 : Eloy Cavazos, Mexican Matador .
• 1952 : Peter Wolf, singer, type-setter.
• 1954 : Elvis Costello, type-setter and British musician .
• 1958 : Tim Burton, American scenario writer.
• 1960 : Lee Archambault, American astronaut
• 1961: Billy Ray Cyrus, singer.
• 1962 : Taslima Nasreen, écrivaine bangladeshi
• 1964
• Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician.
• Blair Underwood, actor.
• 1968 : Rafet El Roman, singer, type-setter.
• 1970 : Claudia Schiffer, German top model.
• 1971 : Gilberto Simoni, Italian cyclist (° Thirty Italy).
• 1973 : Fatih Akin, realizer and German scenario writer of Turkish origin.
• 1980 :
• Ovidie, actress, French director and writer.
• Eve Angeli, French singer.
• 1981 :
• Rachel Bilson, American actress.
• Camille Pine, French tennis player.

Death

• 383 : The emperor Gratien, that which gave its name to the town of Grenoble (Gratianopolis), dies close to Paris

• 591: Holy Arède (or Yriez ), founder of the Monastery of Atane, with the diocese of Limoges.
• 775 : holy Gregoire, abbot of Saint Martin's day of Utrecht, and administrator of the diocese of Utrecht, in Plank, near its Master holy Boniface.
• 1270 :
• the king Louis IX (holy Louis), dies of the plague with Tunis, at the time of the VIII {{E}} crusade.
• Alphonse de Brienne, count of Have, Large chambrier of France.
• 1471 : saint Thomas de Kempis ( Thomas Haermmerleim or Haermmerchen ), religious Augustin with the Monastery of the Mount-Holy-Agnes, close to Zwoll, in Holland.
• 1556 : David Joris, Protestant preacher (1501)
• 1774: Niccolò Jommelli, type-setter
• 1822: William Herschel, British astronomer
• 1867: Michael Faraday, scientist
• 1900: Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
• 1904: Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
• 1908: Henri Becquerel, French physicist
• 1936: Strong Ferdinand, French opera singer.
• 1945 : John Birch
• 1957: Umberto Sheba, writer and Italian poet (° March 9th 1883)
• 1976: Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize of literature in 1974
• 1984: Truman Capote, author
• 1985: Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl , Ambassador of good will in Soviet Union (° June 29th 1972)
• 1988: Francoise Dolto, Doctor Pediatrist and French Psychoanalyst . (° November 6th 1908)
• 1990: Morley Edward Callaghan, novelist, short story writer and radio presenter and of television Canadian (° 1903)
• 1997: Robert Pinget, French writer of Swiss origin (° July 19th 1919)
• 2000: Carl Barks, 99 years, Illustrator of Donald Duck
• 2001: Philippe Léotard
• 2001: Raymond Abescat, French veteran of the First World War
• 2001: Aaliyah Dana Haughton, singer of Rhythm and blues and American actress
• 2001: John Chambers, American make-up man of cinema.
• 2007 : Raymond Barre, economist and politician French (° April 12th 1924).

Celebrations

• Uruguay: National day
• Roman Empire: Opiconsivia, festival held in the honor of Ops

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Barthelemy (apostle): translation in 580 of its relics in Lipari (Eastern date).
• Tite de Gortyne (), apostle of Crete.

Catholic saints of the day

• Louis IX of France († 1270), king de France, died in Tunis.

See too

• August 25th in sport
• August 25th in the railroads

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