On this day in History - Aug 25

0383 - Gratian dies. Roman Emperor
0608 - É eleito o Papa Bonifácio IV
1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy dies (b. 1142)
1270 - King Louis IX of France dies
1482 - Margarida de Anjou, rainha consorte de Henrique VI de Inglaterra
1530 - Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") was born (d. 1584).
1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.
1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal/Batalha de Alcântara, entre D. António Prior do Crato e o Duque de Alba, saindo este vencedor.
1594 - San Luis in Argentina is founded.
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1624 - François de la Chaise was born (d. 1709). French confessor of Louis XIV of France
1635 - Sir Henry Morgan was born (d. 1688). Privateer
1648 - José de Calasanz, santo y presbítero católico.
1662 - John Leverett the Younger was born (d. 1724). American President of Harvard.
1688 - Henry Morgan dies. Welsh privateer
1691 - Jan Vermeer dies. Dutch painter
1699 - King Christian V of Denmark dies (b. 1646)
1711 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey dies. English politician
1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
1724 - George Stubbs was born (d. 1806). British painter
1742 - Morre Carlos Seixas. Compositor português.
1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder was born (d. 1803). German writer.
1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just was born. French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands was born (d. 1843)
1774 - Niccolò Jommelli dies. Ccomposer
1776 - David Hume dies (b. 1711). Scottish philosopher.
1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria was born (d. 1868)
1796 - James Lick was born (d. 1876). California land baron
1802 - Niels Henrik Abel was born (d. 1829). Norwegian mathematics
1803 - Nasce Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duque de Caxias, oficial e patrono do Exército Brasileiro brasileiro (m. 1880).
1819 - Allan Pinkerton was born (d. 1884). American private detective.
1822 - William Herschel dies (b. 1738). German-born astronomer)
1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Spain.
1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands
1831 - Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, político e historiador chileno.
1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates The Great Moon Hoax.
1836 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
1841 - Emil Theodor Kocher was born (d. 1917). Medical researcher who was in 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate.
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria was born (d. 1886)
1850 - Charles Robert Richet was born (d. 1935). French scientist who was 1913 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate.
1867 - Michael Faraday dies (b. 1791). English scientist
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.
1882 - Sean O'Kelly was born (d. 1966). President of Ireland
1889 - O general Legítimo renuncia à Presidência da República do Haiti.
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1897 - O presidente uruguaio Juan Idiarte Borda é assassinado em frente a Catedral de Montevidéu.
1898 - Helmut Hasse was born. German mathematican
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was born. Scientist.
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche dies. German philosopher
1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka dies (b. 1840). Prime Minister of Japan
1902 - Stefan Wolpe was born (d. 1972). Composer.
1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour dies. Painter
1908 - Henri Becquerel dies (b. 1852). French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1909 - Ruby Keeler was born (d. 1993). Singer and actress.
1909 - Michael Rennie was born (d. 1971). Actor
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
1912 - Erich Honecker was born (d. 1994). Head of state of East Germany.
1913 - Walt Kelly was born (d. 1973). American cartoonist.
1916 - Van Johnson was born. Actor
1916 - United States National Park Service is created.
1917 - Mel Ferrer was born. American actor
1918 - Leonard Bernstein was born (d. 1990). American conductor and composer.
1918 - Richard Greene was born. Actor
1919 - George Wallace was born (d. 1998). Governor of Alabama.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.
1921 - Monty Hall was born. Game show host
1921 - Brian Moore was born (d. 1999). Irish-born Canadian writer.
1923 - Nasce Fernando Távora. Professor e arquitecto português.

1923 - Nasce Alvaro Mutis. Escritor colombiano.

1925 - Nasce Juanita Reina. Actriz espanhola.
1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf dies. Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army
1927 - Althea Gibson was born (d. 2003). American tennis player.
1928 - Herbert Kroemer was born. German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Gordon Sherwood was born. Composer
1930 - Sir Sean Connery was born. Scottish actor
1930 - Nasce, em Vila Nova de Gaia, Maria Alberta Meneres. Escritora portuguesa.
1933 - Regis Philbin was born. Television host
1933 - Wayne Shorter was born. Jazz musician
1933 - Tom Skerritt was born. Actor
1935 - Charles Wright was born. American poet
1938 - David Canary was born. Actor
1938 - Frederick Forsyth was born. Author
1939 - John Badham was born. Film director
1940 - José Van Dam was born. Belgian baritone
1941 - Marshall Brickman was born. Screenwriter
1942 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor dies. Duke of Kent
1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1944 - Anthony Heald was born. Actor
1945 - John Birch dies. Intelligence officer & missionary, namesake of the John Birch Society
1946 - Rollie Fingers was born. Baseball player
1946 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship.

1947 - Golpe de Estado no Equador: O presidente Velasco Ibarra renuncia ao cargo em favor do coronel Mancheño.
1947 - Anne Archer was born. Actress
1948 - Tony Ramos was born. Brazilian actor, ator brasileiro.
1949 - Martin Amis was born. Novelist
1949 - John Savage was born. Actor
1949 - Gene Simmons was born. Bassist
1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1951 - Robert Joseph Glass was born. Artist
1951 - Rob Halford was born. English singer (Judas Priest)
1952 - Peter Wolf was born. Singer and composer
1954 - Elvis Costello was born. Musician.

1956 - Alfred Kinsey dies. Biologist and human sexuality research scientist.

1958 - Tim Burton was born. Film director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome.
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus was born. Singer.

1961 - Brasil : O presidente Jânio Quadros renuncia ao cargo sete meses após assumir. João Goulart, seu vice, assume o cargo.
1962 - Viv Campbell was born. Guitarist (Def Leppard)
1962 - David Packer was born. American actor
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich was born. Russian mathematician
1964 - Blair Underwood was born. Actor.
1967 - Stanley Bruce dies. Eighth Prime Minister of Australia
1967 - Paul Muni dies. Academy Award-winning actor
1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell dies. American Nazi Party leader
1968 - Rafet El Roman was born. Singer, composer
1968 - Rachael Ray was born. Cook and television host
1968 - Stuart Murdoch was born. Musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1969 - Cameron Mathison was born. Canadian actor (All My Children)
1970 - Claudia Schiffer was born. German model
1971 - Ted Lewis dies (b. 1890). Jazz musician and entertainer
1972 - Marvin Harrison was born. American football player
1972 - Nasce Catarina Furtado. Apresentadora televisiva portuguesa.
1973 - Jennifer Wilbanks was born. American causes celebre, "runaway bride".
1975 - Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the classic album that would launch him to superstardom.
1976 - Eyvind Johnson dies (b. 1900). Swedish writer
1979 - Stan Kenton dies. American jazz musician and band leader
1979 - Ray Eberle dies. Jazz musician and band leader
1980 - Gower Champion dies. Ddancer, actor, and choreographer.
1980 - Morre José Medina (n. 1894). Actor e realizador brasileiro.
1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix.
1980 - The Broadway musical 42nd Street opened; the show's director, Gower Champion, died earlier that day.
1981 - Rachel Bilson was born. Actress.

1981 - Bill Colleman dies. American jazz music.

1983 - Um golpe de Estado derruba o presidente da Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt, que havia conquistado o poder com força um ano antes.
1984 - Truman Capote dies. Author
1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
1985 - Samantha Smith dies. American social activist and actress
1987 - Stacey Farber was born. Actress.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune, the last major planet it could visit before leaving the Solar System.
1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1989 - Morre Norberto Lopes. Jornalista português.
1990 - Morley Callaghan dies. Canadian writer.
1991 - Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he is working on a new free computer operating system.
1991 - Independência da Bielorrússia.

1994 - Alexandr Solzhenitsin ganha o Prémio Leon Tolstói pela sua contribuição para a literatura russa.
1998 - Incêndio do Chiado , em Lisboa : Entre as 4h e 30m e as 4h e 45m da manhã, na secção de perfumaria e «lingerie» dos Grandes Armazéns Grandela, começava o incêndio. O alarme só foi dado às 5h e 19m, devido à falha dos telefones e do alarme de incêndio. Só às 15h foi anunciado que o fogo se encontrava dominado, quando já tinham ardido quatro quarteirões.

2000 - Desaparece, em Belgrado, o ex presidente sérvio Ivan Stambolic.
2000 - Carl Barks dies. Cartoonist (Donald Duck)
2001 - Aaliyah dies (plane crash). Singer.

2001 - Ken Tyrrell dies (b. 3 May 1924). British automobile racing team owner.
2002 - Dorothy Hewett dies. Australian writer.
2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories.
2003 - 52 killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
Uruguay - National Day.
Roman Empire - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
Philippines - National Heroes' Day.
Australia - Claytonymas. Held in honour of Australian war heroes.
Brasil: Dia do soldado (nascimento de Duque de Caxias).