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Events on August 25

• 1609 Galileo Galilei presents his telescope, constructed according to a Dutch model, in Venice for the first time.
• 1805 In the secret Treaty of Bogenhausen, the Electorate of Bavaria turns its back on its alliance partners Austria and Russia during the War of the Third Coalition and switches to France's side. The treaty paves the way for the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• 1919 The Bavarian Ministry of War is dissolved, and the soldiers of the Bavarian Army are integrated into the Reichswehr. The Weimar Constitution leaves state defense solely to the remit of the Reich.
• 1940 The Royal Air Force flies its first bombing raid against the Reich capital of Berlin at night, causing hardly any damage.
• 1944 Allied troops liberate the city of Paris, which remains undamaged, following an uprising in the city and the German city commander Dietrich von Choltitz's refusal to obey the order.
• 1960 The XVII Olympic Summer Games are opened in Rome.
• 1967 The history of television in Germany records the launch of color television in the Federal Republic on the occasion of the International Radio Exhibition.
• 1989 The US space probe Voyager 2 flies past Neptune and provides many photos of the planet and its moons.
• 1991 Linus Torvalds announces his work on a free operating system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup dedicated to the Minix system. Linux is created.
• 1992 The four-day xenophobic riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen end with the deployment of seven water cannons at 3:00 a.m.
• 2002 In the run-up to the Bundestag election, the first televised debate between the candidates for chancellor of the two major German parties takes place.
• 2012 Voyager 1 exits the heliopause and thus becomes the first human-made object to enter interstellar space.

Born on August 25

• 1880 Robert Stolz, Austrian composer and conductor
• 1900 Hans Adolf Krebs, German or British physician and biochemist
• 1911 Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and guerrilla fighter
• 1912 Erich Honecker, German politician, Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the SED and Chairman of the State Council of the GDR
• 1930 Sean Connery, British actor
• 1951 Rob Halford, British singer
• 1960 Maxim Biller, German writer
• 1970 Matthias Opdenhövel, German television presenter
• 1970 Claudia Schiffer, German model
• 1992 Ivy Quainoo, German-Ghanaian singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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