Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 25
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This is a list of selected August 25 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on how well they are written, not based on how much their subjects are important or significant. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed.
Also, to maintain some variety of topics on the Main Page as a whole, an event is not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled August 25, 2010 featured article or the August 25, 2010 featured picture.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Admins: after updating please purge the cache of the Main Page so that the updated version appears.August 25: Independence Day in Uruguay (1825)
- 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, currently the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was formed by Royal Charter from King Henry VIII.
- 1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon.
- 1920 – Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War.
- 1945 – About ten days after World War II ended with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed Baptist missionary John Birch.
- 1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft (pictured) made its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet visited before leaving the solar system.
