events of august 25

• Council of Nicaea concludes. (325)
• Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers. (1609)
• The Wizard of Oz debuts in the United States. (1939)
• New Orleans was founded by French settlers and named after the Duke of Orleans. (1718)
• Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel. It took him 21 hours and 45 minutes. (1875)
• Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation by Allied forces. (1944)

events of 1989

• Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death. (Feb. 14)
• Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy. (April 19)
• Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President. (May 25)
• After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West. (Nov. 11)
• Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

notable births

• Ivan IV (the Terrible)
  • first tsar of Russia (1530)
• Allan Pinkerton
  • detective (1819)
• Sean Connery
  • actor (1930)
• Regis Philbin
  • TV personality (1934)
• Tim Burton
  • director (1958)

notable deaths

• Ghengis Khan
  • founded Mongolia (1227)
• Friedrich Nietschze
  • philosopher (1900)
• Alfred C Kinsey
  • US sexologist (1956)
• Truman Capote
  • American author (1984)
• Aaliyah
  • singer (2001)
• Neil Armstrong
  • first human to walk on the moon (2012)