Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 25

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  Genghis Khan
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  Sung Chiao-jen
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  Dr. Sun Yat-sen
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  António, Prior of Crato
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  Józef Piłsudski
• Juan Antonio Lavalleja
  Juan Antonio Lavalleja
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  Rings of Neptune
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  Aaliyah
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  Ruins of the Catholic University of Leuven's library
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  The skeleton of Richard III in its original grave

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Qixi Festival (traditional Chinese, 2020)	refimprove and date cite dead link
Independence Day in Uruguay (1825)	tagged for {outdated section}
1227 – Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, died after a lengthy illness during the Mongol conquest of Western Xia.	Article gives two possible dates
1248 – Ommen in the Netherlands received city rights and fortification rights from Template:Nowrap, the Archbishop of Utrecht, after the town was pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron.	unreferenced section
1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.	Too much uncited
1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession: The army of the pretender to the Portuguese throne, António, Prior of Crato, was routed in the Battle of Alcântara, ending his short-lived reign.	both: refimprove section
1830 - Following a performance of an opera in Brussels, the Belgian Revolution breaks out against Dutch rule in the Southern Netherlands, leading to the independence of Belgium.	featured on October 4
1835 – The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon.	unreferenced section
1912 – The Kuomintang was founded by Sung Chiao-jen and Sun Yat-sen in Guangdong, China.	refimprove section
1916 – The National Park Service was established to manage all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties around the United States.	missing information
1920 – Polish forces (pictured) successfully forced the Russians to retreat at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War.	unreferenced section
1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland entered into a military alliance for mutual assistance in case of military invasion by "a European Power".	unreferenced section
1941 – Second World War: Soviet, British and Commonwealth armed forces invaded Iran to secure oil fields and Allied supply lines for the Soviet Union.	Missing page numbers
1944 – World War II: The Free French Forces and the French Resistance liberated Paris from the Nazi German occupation.	lots of CN tags (8) esp in one section
1945 – Armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed American military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary John Birch as he was leading a mission to reach Allied personnel in a Japanese prison camp.	page numbers needed
1967 – Founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated by John Patler, a former member of his group.	unreferenced section
1985 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crash landed at the Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport runway in Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including Samantha Smith and her father Arthur Smith.	refimprove
1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November, during the Croatian War of Independence.	featured on November 18
Genghis Khan |d|1227|	Deathdate uncertain

Eligible

• 1258 – George Mouzalon, the regent of the Empire of Nicaea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by nobles under the future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
• 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter by Henry VIII.
• 1758 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces engaged the Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf in present-day Sarbinowo, Poland.
• 1914 – World War I: During the sack of Louvain in Belgium, German troops burned the town's Catholic university, destroying several medieval manuscripts.
• 1975 – Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
• 1989 – The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).
• 2001 – American singer Aaliyah (pictured) and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in The Bahamas.
• 2011 – Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people were killed in an arson attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.
• 2012 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
• Born/died this day: | Gratian |d|383| Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey |d|1711| Karl Friedrich Bahrdt |b|1741| John Neal |b|1793| Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias |b|1803| Charles Richet |b|1850| Zsuzsa Körmöczy |b|1924| Velma Caldwell Melville |d|1924| Regis Philbin |b|1931| Babe Siebert |d|1939| Richard Edwards |b|1956| Theresa Andrews |b|1962| Stan McCabe |d|1968| Hendra Setiawan |b|1984| Samantha Smith |d|1985| Ricardo Rodríguez |b|1992| Lachlan Power |b|1995| Ray Jones |d|2007| John McCain |d|2018|

Notes

• Coldstream Guards appears on August 13, so Honourable Artillery Company should not appear in the same year

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• 1270 – Philip III became King of France following the death of his father Louis IX during the Eighth Crusade.
• 1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
• 1875 – Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
• 2012 – The skeleton of King Richard III of England was discovered under a car park in Leicester.