On August 25, 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.
1875 - Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, travelling from Dover, England to Calais, France in less than 22 hours.
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.
1944 - World War II: The Free French Forces and the French Resistance liberated Paris from the Nazi German occupation.
I LOVE Wikipedia!
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And on August 25th 2008 I replied on DarkLordPeaches' "Today" spa topic!
Mark that on your calenders, becaue one day in the future this certain post will have revelance and all will look towards it!
"And can anyone tell me the significance of August 25th 2008, class? You in the back, Ms. Danvers?"
"That was the day the internet imploded, sir."
"Correct. August 25th, otherwise known as Eggpire's Folly, was the day that a massive cascade failure engulfed the internet, bringing it down for several weeks. 10 years later, it was finally discovered to have been caused by a completely random set of circumstances that was triggered by a post on a bulletin board by someone going by the cyber handle 'The Eggpire'.
"Mr. Randal, wasn't the loss of interglobal communications stemming from the fall of the Internet the sole reasons for World War 3 and 4?"
"Yes... yes it was."
"I hate 21st Century history!"
"Quiet, you! Or its back to the rancor pit."
August 26, 1071 - Byzantine-Seljuk wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert.
1346 - Hundred Years' War: English forces established the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights at the Battle of Crécy.
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1789 - French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly at Versailles.
1928 - At a cafe in Paisley, Scotland, May Donoghue found the remains of a snail in her bottle of ginger beer, causing her to launch one of the landmark civil action cases in English Common Law, Donoghue v Stevenson.
Random days seem more awesome when you know some of this stuff.
*looks at Psx's post*
DAYMN I'M AWESOME!
So in the future, they're going to torture college students by sticking them in the armpits of a rancor?
Dude, that's messed up.
No. They are going to stick them up to the armpits in a rancor.
The ultimate penalty.
August 27, 1776 - British forces led by William Howe defeated the American Continental Army under George Washington at the Battle of Long Island in Brooklyn, New York, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War.
1896 - The Anglo-Zanzibar War set the record for the shortest war in recorded history when Zanzibar surrendered less than an hour after the conflict broke out, with British forces destroying the Sultan's Palace and Harem.
1928 - Over sixty nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy.
1957 - The Constitution of Malaysia came into force, three days before the Federation of Malaya achieved formal independence from the United Kingdom.
2003 - The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years: 55,758,006 kilometers (34,646,419 mi).
I wouldn't say "Ultimate" Penalty! They could've been stuffed face first!
August 28, 2008- The person who uses the Yuku account "darklordpeaches" decided not to post more dates and events on this topic because he was busy preparing "It". No one but him quite knows what "It" is.
It's coming. You can't stop it. No one can.
But you just did post a date. And technically, an event as well. So what shall you do now?
Emphasis on "more" in my last post.
