Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 25
This is a list of selected August 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Galileo Galilei
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1248 – Ommen in the Netherlands received city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht, after the town was pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron. | refimprove section |
| 1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession: The army of the pretender to the Portuguese throne, António, Prior of Crato, was routed in the Battle of Alcântara, ending his short-lived reign. | refimprove section |
| 1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers. | refimprove section |
| 1830 - Following a performance of an opera in Brussels, the Belgian Revolution breaks out against Dutch rule in the Southern Netherlands, leading to the independence of Belgium. | featured on October 4 |
| 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon. | unreferenced section |
| 1912 – The Kuomintang was founded by Sung Chiao-jen and Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Guangdong, China. | refimprove sections |
| 1916 – The National Park Service was established to manage all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties around the United States. | missing information |
| 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland entered into a military alliance for mutual assistance in case of military invasion by "a European Power". | empty section |
| 1944 – World War II: The Free French Forces and the French Resistance liberated Paris from the Nazi German occupation. | refimprove |
| 1945 – Armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed American military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary John Birch as he was leading a mission to reach Allied personnel in a Japanese prison camp. | refimprove section |
| 1967 – Founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated by John Patler, a former member of his group. | refimprove |
| 1985 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crash landed at the Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport runway in Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including Samantha Smith and her father Arthur Smith. | refimprove |
| 1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November, during the Croatian War of Independence. | featured on November 18 |
Eligible
- 1258 – George Mouzalon, regent of the Empire of Nicaea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by the nobles under future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
- 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, currently the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was formed by Royal Charter from King Henry VIII.
- 1920 – Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
- 1950 – In tennis, Althea Gibson became the first African American woman to compete at the United States National Championships (now known as the US Open).
- Born/died this day: Agnes Mowinckel (b. 1875) · Mary Tappan Wright (d. 1916) · Theresa Andrews (b. 1962)
Notes
- Coldstream Guards appears on August 13, so Honourable Artillery Company should not appear in the same year
August 25: Independence Day in Uruguay (1825)
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces engaged the Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf in present-day Sarbinowo, Poland.
- 1875 – Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, completing the journey in approximately 21 hours and 40 minutes.
- 1941 – Second World War: Soviet, British and other Commonwealth armed forces invaded Iran to secure oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines for the USSR.
- 1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).
- 2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas.
Gennadius of Constantinople (d. 471) · Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (b. 1741) · Velma Caldwell Melville (d. 1924)