471 – Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)
1482 – Margaret of Anjou, Queen consort of England by marriage to King Henry VI, major figure during the War of the Roses, dies at 52
1925 – Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal, dies at 72
1939 – (Charles) “Babe” Siebert, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, 1925-39, 3X All-Star (Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins, and 2 other teams), drowns in Lake Huron at 35
1968 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricket batsman (39 Tests, @ 48.21, 6 x 100, HS 232; NSWCA), dies of a fractured skull at 58
1985 – Samantha Smith, American peace activist and actress (invited to the Soviet Union during Cold War), dies in plane at 13
1990 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer and radio personality, dies at 87
1997 – Robert Pinget, French novelist (The Interrogation) and playwright, dies at 78
1998 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court justice (1972-87), dies at 90
2002 – Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
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Historical Events for 25th August 2025
1898 – 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Crete
1914 – German troops march into France and push the French army to Sedan
1924 – MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches his second no-hitter, beating the Browns 2-0 in 7 innings
1944 – US Army XII Corps reaches Troyes, France
1988 – Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1989 – After a 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over the cloud tops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
2001 – Singer Aaliyah and eight others are killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas
2014 – 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, are broadcast on NBC
Today in History for 25th August 2025
Historical Events
1908 – National Association of Colored Nurses forms in New York City, and Martha Minerva Franklin of Connecticut is elected president
1914 – German troops in occupied Belgium begin the six-week “Sack of Louvain,” destroying historical buildings and killing hundreds of civilians
1917 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Robert Lindley Murray beats Nathaniel W. Niles 5-7, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3 for first of 2 straight US singles titles
1921 – Yankees pitcher Harry Harper hits three batters in an inning, tying the record
1967 – Paraguay adopts its constitution
Famous Birthdays
1934 – Valery Bykovsky, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok V; Soyuz 22; Soyuz 31), born in Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union (d. 2019)
1941 – Mario Corso, Italian soccer winger (23 caps; Inter Milan 413 games) and coach (Lecce, Inter), born in Verona, Italy (d. 2020)
1956 – Matt Aitken, English songwriter and rocker (Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block), born in Coventry, England
1962 – Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer (batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989), born in Karachi, Pakistan
1994 – Josh Flitter, American actor (Air Buddies movies), born in Ridgewood, New Jersey
Famous Deaths
1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American far-right political activist. founder and leader of the American Nazi Party, assassinated by former party member John Patler at 49
1979 – Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican archaeologist who excavated Palenque, dies at 73
1996 – Sylvia Fisher, Australian operatic soprano (Albert Herring Opera), dies at 86
2001 – Ken Tyrrell, English race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing, dies at 77
2006 – Vijay Mehra, Indian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 2 x 50; Delhi, Eastern Punjab, Railways), dies at 68
Famous Deaths for 24th August 2025
1313 – Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King (1308-1313) and Holy Roman Emperor (1312-13), dies of fever
1516 – Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, fought the Portuguese and the Ottomans, dies at the Battle of Marj Dabiq at 75 or 76
1712 – Thomas Bullis, Jr. English organist and composer, dies at 54 (burial date)
1982 – Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics), dies at 99
1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer, dies at 48
1997 – (Vincente) “Tete” Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist, dies at 64
1998 – E. G. Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), dies of lung cancer at 84
2018 – Robin Leach, English TV host (Life Styles of Rich and Famous), dies at 76
2024 – Don Wert, American baseball third baseman (MLB All Star and World Series 1968 Detroit Tigers), dies at 86
2024 – William Reynolds, American actor (The Gallant Men; All That Heaven Allows), dies at 90
Historical Events for 24th August 2025
79 – Believed until 2018 to be the date of the massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing untold thousands, latest evidence suggests the eruption occurred after 17 October
1787 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history
1893 – Tornado destroys the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina; about 1,000 people die
1938 – Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, the highest season total in organized baseball, for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
1972 – Dennis Amiss scores the first one-day international century, 103 against Australia
1984 – Pat Bradley sets an LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 during the second round of the Columbia Savings National at Green Gables Country Club, Denver, CO
2004 – Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May team up to win the women’s beach volleyball gold at the Athens Olympics beating Brazilian pair Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar 21–17, 21–11
Today in History for 24th August 2025
Historical Events
1751 – Thomas Colley is executed in England for drowning a supposed witch
1858 – Richmond “Daily Dispatch” reports 90 Black individuals arrested for learning
1912 – District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
1997 – 97th US Amateur Golf Championship won by Joel Kribel
2019 – Britain’s Prince Andrew denies knowing his friend Jeffrey Epstein was involved in sexual trafficking of underage girls after public accusations made against him
Famous Birthdays
1890 – Franz Philipp, German composer, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (d. 1972)
1890 – Jean Rhys [Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams], British writer (Voyage in the Dark), born in Roseau, Dominica (d. 1979)
1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), born in New York City (d. 2013)
1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer, born in Vienna, Austria
1986 – Arian Foster, American football running back (First-team All-Pro 2010, 12; 4 × Pro Bowl; NFL rushing TD leader 2010, 12; Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Famous Deaths
1540 – Parmigianino [Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola,], Italian painter (Madonna of the Long Neck), dies at 37
1982 – Jack Siedle, South African cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies at 79
1987 – Malcolm Kirk “King Kong Kirk”, English professional wrestler, dies of a heart attack in the ring at 51
1996 – Robert Tewdwr Moss, English journalist and travel writer, found dead at 34
2020 – Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician, 1st democratically-elected President of the Republic of the Congo (1992-97), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 23rd August 2025
1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar and humanist, first keeper of the royal library at the Palace of Fontainebleau, dies at 73
1723 – Antoine Mouque, Flemish composer, organist and singer, dies at 64
1884 – LeRoy Pope Walker, American lawyer and 1st Confederate States Secretary of War (1861), dies at 67
1982 – Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
1986 – Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
1990 – David Rose, American Emmy Award-winning composer (“The Stripper”; “Holiday For Strings”), and orchestra leader (The Red Skelton Show), dies at 80
1994 – Richard Jock Kinneir, British graphic designer (modern road signs), dies at 77
2007 – William John McKeag, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970-76), dies at 79
2012 – Steve Van Buren, Honduran-American Pro Football HOF halfback (5 × First-team All-Pro; 4 × NFL rushing yards leader; 4 × NFL rushing TDs leader; Philadelphia Eagles), dies from pneumonia at 91
2020 – Charlie Persip, American jazz drummer (Dizzy Gillespie; The Jazz Statesmen; Billy Eckstine), dies at 91
Historical Events for 23rd August 2025
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dismisses Dutch Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer
1953 – Phil Grate sets a record for throwing a baseball 443 ft 3 in (135.1 m)
1968 – Yankees and Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1 am curfew
1973 – Norrmalmstorg robbery and six-day siege begin in Stockholm, the first Swedish crime filmed live on TV and the origin of the term Stockholm Syndrome
1977 – First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize
1992 – Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
2020 – Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his second title under a yellow caution flag after a crash with three laps remaining
2023 – Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is reported killed along with nine others in a plane crash northwest of Moscow, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency
Today in History for 23rd August 2025
Historical Events
1938 – England scores 7-903 declared against Australia, with Len Hutton scoring 364
1957 – US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
1982 – USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
2004 – Winning pitcher Lisa Fernandez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
2017 – India’s toll from swine flu rises above 1,000 for the year, with 22,186 cases reported
Famous Birthdays
1754 – Louis XVI, King of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined, born in Versailles, Yvelines, France (d. 1793)
1917 – Tex Williams, American country-western singer, born in Ramsey, Illinois (d. 1985)
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1954 – Halimah Yacob, Singaporean politician (1st female President of Singapore (2017-), born in Singapore
1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia, born in Singapore
Famous Deaths
1927 – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts
1957 – Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L’Oréal, dies at 76
1989 – Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY in a racially motivated attack
2006 – Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84
2015 – Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 22nd August 2025
1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1807 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, dies at 71
1879 – Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 82
1942 – Henry Eichheim, American violinist, composer, organologist, and ethnomusicologist dies at 72
1942 – Mikhail Fokine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, dies at 62
1990 – Thomas W. McKnew, American Vice President, Chairman, and Chairman Emeritus of the National Geographic Society (1954-90), dies of pneumonia at 94
2009 – Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)
2011 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician, dies at 61
2014 – John Akers, American business executive (head of IBM, 1983-93), dies of a stroke at 79
2019 – Bobby Dillon, American NFL defensive back (second to record 50 interceptions), dies of dementia at 89