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unusual facts about August 25


Chiado

On the early hours of August 25, 1988, a fire started at the Grandella store in Rua do Carmo (Carmo Street) and quickly spread to Rua Garrett (Garrett Street) and others, affecting a total of 18 buildings (corresponding to a 8000 m² land footprint) in the area Chiado, of which 11 were full losses with structure collapse, including the Armazéns do Chiado and Grandella department stores, that never reopened, along with several other historical shops also destroyed.



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1984 Little League World Series

The 1984 Little League World Series took place between August 21 and August 25 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

1990 Little League World Series

The 1990 Little League World Series took place between August 21 and August 25 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

2011 Mexican drug gang attack Twitter hoax

On August 25, 2011 Gilberto Martinez Vera and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola made a series of fraudulent Twitter tweets alleging that an attack by drug gangs was in progress at an elementary school in Veracruz Mexico.

4206 Verulamium

The asteroid was discovered on August 25, 1986, and is named after the Celtic and later Roman town of Verulamium, near what is now the city of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, southern England.

Aathi Narayana

The audio release of the film was held on August 25, 2009 with director Perarasu taking the opportunity as a stage to vent out against heroines who get overpaid.

Alan Burke

Alan S. Burke (September 15, 1922 - August 25, 1992) was an American conservative television and radio talk show host who was on the air primarily in New York City from 1966 to 1969 on WNEW (now Fox Broadcasting O&O WNYW).

Avelino Arredondo

On August 25, 1897 Arredondo assassinated Idiarte in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo as he emerged from a church service.

Battle of Jonesborough

The Union army began pulling out of its positions on August 25 to hit the railroad between the towns of Rough and Ready and Jonesborough.

Baywood, Virginia

The old-time banjo player Haywood Blevins was recorded at Baywood by Peter Hoover on August 25, 1961, and the banjo player James Spencer Caudill was recorded at his home in Baywood by Blanton Owen on March 21, 1974; both of these recordings are housed at the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Culture.

Bob Milliken

Robert Fogle Milliken (August 25, 1926 – January 4, 2007) was a reliever and spot starter in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1953-54).

Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

# Mieczysław Wachowski (October 29, 1991 - August 25, 1995) - Lech Wałęsa

Chen Guofu

He left for Taiwan in December 1948 and died there on August 25, 1951, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Cordially Invited to Meet Death

2009, New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group (with The Silent Speaker) ISBN 978-0-553-38655-4 August 25, 2009, trade paperback

Diary of a G

Diary of a G is an album from rapper Mr. Capone-E released on August 25, 2009 through his own record label Hi-Power Entertainment.

Emlen Etting

The 12-inch, 78 rpm, Asch 3 record English and French language set recorded the live speeches of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle on August 25, 1944, accompanied by the commentary of Welles and the translation and commentary of Etting.

Enes Ünal

On August 25, 2013, Enes Ünal came off the bench substituting Ferhat Kiraz in the 71 mintute and scoring his first league goal against Galatasaray in the 74th minute with the assist by Pablo Batalla.

Eugene S. Ives

Eugene Semmes Ives (November 11, 1859 Washington, D.C. – August 25, 1917 Mist, Madera County, California) was an American lawyer and politician from New York and Arizona.

Fly Linhas Aéreas

The airline began operations on August 25, 1995 with a Boeing 727-200 as a charter carrier linking Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to holiday destinations in the northeast of Brazil.

Grave Encounters

The film was released on August 25, 2011 in select theaters using the Eventful Demand It and Video on Demand via Comcast.

Heinrich Bandlow

Heinrich Bandlow (* April 14, 1855 in Tribsees, † August 25, 1933 in Greifswald) was a Pomeranian author, writing in Standard as well as in Low German.

Holly Coors

Holland "Holly" Coors (August 25, 1920 – January 18, 2009) was an American conservative political activist and philanthropist who had been married to Joseph Coors, the president of Coors Brewing Company.

Jerry Wayne Parrish

Jerry Wayne Parrish of the U.S. Army (March 10, 1944 – August 25, 1998) was one of six American soldiers to defect to North Korea after the Korean War.

Jim Suchecki

James Joseph Suchecki (August 25, 1926 – July 20, 2000) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1950 through 1952 for the Boston Red Sox (1950), St. Louis Browns (1951) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1952).

John Brown of Pittsfield

On August 25, General Richard Montgomery received a letter from him indicating that the British had two war vessels nearly ready for launching on Lake Champlain.

Jordi Vilasuso

Vilasuso and Riley were married on August 25, 2012 in Islamorada, Florida.

Katorz

During the recording of this album, guitarist Denis D'Amour (a.k.a. Piggy) died on August 25, 2005 due to colon cancer.

Louis-Karim Nébati

Louis-Karim Nébati (born August 25, 1971) is a French actor, born in Bénouville (Calvados).

Ludwig Purtscheller

After a descent of the Aiguille du Dru with G. Löwenbach and Jakob Oberhollenzer on August 25, 1899, an ice axe broke and the rope team fell into a bergschrund.

Manning Kimmel

Asakaze was sunk on August 23, 1944 off Cape Bilinao (Luzon) by USS Haddo (SS-255), and Yūnagi was sunk August 25, 1944 off N.W. Luzon by the USS Picuda (SS-382).

Mr. Know It All

Filming of the music video for the song took place on August 25, 2011 in Nashville and was directed by Justin Francis.

Murad Kostanyan

Murad Kostani Kostanyan (August 25, 1902, Havtvan, Salmas, Persia - January 3, 1989, Yerevan) was an Armenian actor, People's Artist of Armenia (1956).

Ottawa SuperEX

In 2005, the Solo Mobile / Eckored tour stopped at Lansdowne Park on August 25 to perform at the Ottawa SuperEX.

Raúl Chibás

Raúl Chibás Rivas (April 25, 1916 – August 25, 2002) was a Cuban politician and military officer who initially supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution but later defected to the United States.

Rivadavia Department, San Juan

At the beginning of the century, under the governance of Colonel Carlos Sarmiento, the town was legally named Rivadavia on August 25, 1908.

Robert Pryor Henry

Henry was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1823, until his death in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, August 25, 1826.

Rüsselsheim massacre

On the night of August 25, the British RAF sent 116 Lancasters into Russelsheim in order to attack the Opel Plant on a bombing mission, dropping 674 2,000-lb bombs and more than 400,000 incendiaries on the city, destroying the plant and damaging the railtracks, more by far any previous air raid in World War II.

Sergio Galarza

Sergio Daniel Galarza Soliz (born August 25, 1975 in La Paz) is a Bolivian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Sport Boys Warnes.

Soboma George

Soboma George (died August 25, 2010) was a high-ranking military commander in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and a separate militant group, The Outlaws.

Steve Springer

After three appearances as a pinch hitter and defensive replacement, he started the August 25 game at third base against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park.

Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories

Charles Rouleau (February 18, 1888 - August 25, 1901), Northern Alberta Judicial District

The Chi-Lites

Creadel "Red" Jones – (born September 26, 1940, Chicago; died August 25, 1994)

Vanessa Campbell

Vanessa Campbell (June 24, 1953 - August 25, 2002) was a cabaret, blues, jazz and rock singer and actress who appeared in a national tour of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" and Law & Order.

Warsame Abdi Shirwa

20 days later, on August 25 former Mudug region Governor Abdinur Mohamud Dirie Geesey was arrested and charged with the murder.

Washington Glory

The playoffs started out on a high note for the Glory when Monica Abbott threw her first professional no hitter and the first no hitter in Glory history in the August 25 opener against Rockford.

Youakim Moubarac

Fourteen years later, on August 25, 2009, his remains were transferred, according to his wish, to rest beside his relatives in Mar Youssef Church in Morh Kfarsghab.

Zonnon

Modular Programming Languages: Joint Modular Languages Conference, JMLC 2003, Klagenfurt, Austria, August 25–27, 2003, Proceedings.