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Historical Events
on August 25th
- Lead Story
- The Great Moon Hoax,1835
- American Revolution
- David Hume dies,1776
- Automotive
- Michael Schumacher makes Formula One debut,1991
- Civil War
- Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia,1864
- Cold War
- Samantha Smith dies in plane crash,1985
- Crime
- In Cold Blood author dies,1984
- Disaster
- Hurricane David is born,1979
- General Interest
- Council of Nicaea concludes,325
- Englishman swims the Channel,1875
- Paris liberated,1944
- Hollywood
- The Wizard of Oz debuts,1939
- Literary
- Novelist Martin Amis is born,1949
- Music
- Little Eva earns a #1 hit with "Loco-Motion",1962
- Old West
- Outlaw Bill Doolin is killed,1896
- Presidential
- Truman orders army to seize control of railroads,1950
- Sports
- Gooden becomes youngest 20-game winner in history,1985
- Vietnam War
- McNamara concedes that bombing is less than effective,1967
- 173rd Airborne Brigade departs Vietnam,1971
- World War I
- Germans burn Belgian town of Louvain,1914
- World War II
- Liberation of Paris,1944
- The first casualty of the Cold War,1945
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