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- 0325 Council of Nicea convened by Emperor Constantine.
- 1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1558 King Francis II of France marries Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 1580 Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
- 1580 Battle of Alcntara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1609 Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
- 1689 Montr‚al taken by Iroquois
- 1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, founded
- 1718 New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
- 1758 Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1768 James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1804 Alice Meynell becomes first woman jockey (England)
- 1814 British capture Washington DC (too bad we lost it)
- 1814 The US Library of Congress and its 3,000 books is destroyed by British troops.
- 1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
- 1825 Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- 1830 Belgium revolts against Netherlands
- 1830 The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1835 NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
- 1835 The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- 1843 First Trans-Atlantic crossing by U.S. steam powered ship
- 1862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
- 1864 Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
- 1867 Scientist Michael Faraday dies.
- 1875 Capt. Matthew Webb becomes first to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
- 1888 Henry Slocum wins US Lawn Tennis Assn singles title
- 1894 Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- 1900 Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies in Weimar, Germany.
- 1902 The first Arabic language US daily newspaper begins publication in New York City.
- 1904 Jim Jefferies KOsJack Munroe & retains boxing heavyweight title
- 1908 Allen Winter wins US first $50,000 trotting race
- 1910 Yellow Cab is founded.
- 1912 The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- 1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
- 1916 National Park Service established in the Dept of the Interior
- 1916 The US National Park Service is established.
- 1916 The United States National Park Service is created.
- 1919 Commercial air passenger service begins between England and Paris.
- 1919 The first scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
- 1920 The first US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
- 1921 US signs peace treaty with Germany
- 1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
- 1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
- 1940 First "parachute wedding."
- 1940 The first parachute wedding (how do you kiss the bride?)
- 1942 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua
- 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 Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
- 1943 US forces overran New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
- 1944 Germany Army by now has sustained 400,000 men killed, wounded or captured, plus 1,300 tanks, 1,500 artillery, and 3,500 aircraft destroyed.
- 1944 Paris is taken by the Allies. General De Gaulle re-establishes a presence in the capital.
- 1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
- 1945 Ten days after World War II ended with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by a portion of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
- 1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
- 1949 Visitor posting - August 25, 1949, Deb (Williams) Hoos was born, oh what a day!!!
- 1950 Pres Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
- 1950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
- 1950 US President Harry Truman orders the Army to take over the railroads to stop a possible strike.
- 1950 Visitor posting - Denise Roessle Born - USA
- 1955 Visitor posting - Lenore born - USA
- 1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
- 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Shadows - Apache
- 1963 Paul McCartney is fined œ31 & 1 yr suspended license for speeding
- 1964 The Beatles receive a gold record their third for A Hard Day's Night.
- 1964 Visitor posting - Lisa was born. - USA
- 1965 Visitor posting - Robin Denise Wilkins was born to Dorris and Robert Wilkins of Gary Indiana
- 1967 Paraguay accepts its constitution
- 1970 Visitor posting - Jason S Hayward born on this day 25 August 1970 to Frances and Michael Hayward in Derby England what proud parents
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Donny Osmond - Young Love
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore
- 1981 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
- 1981 Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
- 1981 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
- 1981 Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
- 1983 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
- 1984 Visitor posting - Larry Gordon was born at Sutter Solano Hospital in Vallejo. Ca. to Janie Gonzales and Lon Gordon
- 1985 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
- 1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
- 1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
- 1988 The historical center of Lisbon is destroyed by a fire.
- 1989 Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
- 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
- 1989 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Bombalurina - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
- 1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
- 1990 Visitor posting - Katharine Skupsky's Birthday - USA
- 1991 Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union
- 1991 Carl Lewis runs 100m in 9.86 seconds
- 1995 Visitor posting - Samantha Lynn-Lorenzi Schmitz was born to Tara Schmitz and Luis Lorenzi(a dead beat father.) - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Olivia Rae Pulido was born in Vecenza Italy
- 1996 Visitor posting - Amari Adams Birthday
- 1997 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, was convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
- 1997 Visitor posting - tazjawiilliams born - USA [email protected]
- 2003 Fifty-two people killed in two terrorist bomb blasts in cars in Mumbai, India.
- 2003 The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
- 2007 people killed by bomb blast in Hyderabad, India.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Joel Debnam marries Rebecca Banzhof in Washington state USA
- 2009 42 people are injured after a car bomb explodes at a crowded restaurant with government officials in Narathiwat, southern Thailand.
- 2009 A bomb in Afghanistan kills four American soldiers, making 2009 the deadliest year for foreign troops since the 2001 invasion.
- 2009 A gas explosion at a coal mine in Shanxi, China, kills at least 14 people.
- 2009 A suicide bombing in Mesker-Yurt, Chechnya, kills three police officers. (
- 2009 At least 40 people are killed and 57 wounded in a car bomb explosion in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan.
- 2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown repeats that the British Government played no role in the release from prison of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, it being a matter for the Scottish Government.
- 2009 Madagascar's political rivals meet for a second round of talks in Maputo, Mozambique.
- 2009 South Korea launches its first space rocket, Naro-1, but fails to put the STSAT-2A satellite into the planned orbit.
- 2009 Syria and Iraq recall their ambassadors over a dispute following the recent bombings in Baghdad last week.
- 2009 The Malaysian opposition party PAS defeats the government party UMNO in the by-election at Permatang Pasir, Penang.
- 2009 The United States budget deficit for 2009 will reach $1.6 trillion, the highest ever recorded.
- 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Ben Bernanke for his second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
- 2009 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announces plans to break off diplomatic relations with Colombia over the neighboring country's plan to allow U.S. troops access to its military bases.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Vera North turns 90 years old - USA
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