Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 25
August 25, 2024 is the 238th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Virgo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 25
- 1537 –The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1768 –James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1894 –Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- 1914 –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.
- 1916 –The United States National Park Service is created.
- 1939 –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.
- 1942 –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, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
- 1948 –The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: “Confrontation Day” between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
- 1961 –President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.
- 1991 –Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
Who were born on August 25?
- 1744 –Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
- 1817 –Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
- 1931 –Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
- 1942 –Nathan Deal, American politician, 82nd governor of Georgia
- 1967 –Tom Hollander, English actor
- 1968 –Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
- 1970 –Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
- 1983 –James Rossiter, British racing driver
- 1987 –Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer and songwriter
- 1992 –Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
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