History Events on August 25
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History Events on August 25
Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
#Egon_Krenz
In 1997
The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
#Great_Moon_Hoax
In 1835
The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
#Second_Polish_Republic
In 1939
Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
#Polish-Soviet_War
In 1920
France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Hu?, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
#French_Third_Republic
In 1883
Kitasato Shibasabur? discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
#Kitasato_Shibasabur?
In 1894
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.
#Battle_of_the_Eastern_Solomons
In 1942
The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
#House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
In 1948
Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
#Consul_(representative)
In 1898
Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
#Seven_Years'_War
In 1758
Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
#Voyager_1
In 2012
War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
#War_of_the_Portuguese_Succession
In 1580
Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
#Kingdom_of_Kandy
In 1630
American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
#Hugh_Glass
In 1823
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
#Pavlo_Lazarenko
In 2006
World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
#Catholic_University_of_Leuven_(1834-1968)
In 1914
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its second large-scale attack at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, prompting a massive military crackdown on Rohingya people by the Myanmar Army.
#Arakan_Rohingya_Salvation_Army
In 2017
George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
#George_Lincoln_Rockwell
In 1967
The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
#1933_Diexi_earthquake
In 1933
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