WillDekkard
08-25-2010, 04:47 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 25th
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* 1248 The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
* 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.
* 1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
* 1580 Battle of Alcβntara. Spain defeats Portugal.
* 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
* 1758 Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
* 1768 James Cook begins his first voyage.
* 1814 Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812.
* 1825 Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
* 1830 The Belgian Revolution begins.
* 1835 The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
* 1894 Shibasaburo Kitasato 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.
* 1910 Yellow Cab is founded.
* 1912 The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
* 1916 The United States National Park Service is created.
* 1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
* 1921 The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
* 1933 The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
* 1942 World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
* 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 an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
* 1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
* 1945 Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
* 1948 The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
* 1950 President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
* 1980 Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
* 1981 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
* 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.
* 1989 Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
* 1991 Belarus declares its independence from the Soviet Union
* 1991 The Battle of Vukovar has begun. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August-November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
* 1997 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
* 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).
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This Date in History - August 25th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1248 The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
* 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.
* 1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
* 1580 Battle of Alcβntara. Spain defeats Portugal.
* 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
* 1758 Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
* 1768 James Cook begins his first voyage.
* 1814 Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812.
* 1825 Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
* 1830 The Belgian Revolution begins.
* 1835 The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
* 1894 Shibasaburo Kitasato 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.
* 1910 Yellow Cab is founded.
* 1912 The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
* 1916 The United States National Park Service is created.
* 1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
* 1921 The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
* 1933 The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
* 1942 World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
* 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 an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
* 1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
* 1945 Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
* 1948 The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
* 1950 President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
* 1980 Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
* 1981 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
* 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.
* 1989 Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
* 1991 Belarus declares its independence from the Soviet Union
* 1991 The Battle of Vukovar has begun. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August-November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
* 1997 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
* 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).
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