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Today is the birthday of:
Eduardo Naranjo, painter, draftsman and engraver, August 25, 1944. 80 years old.
It was news:
25 years ago:
50 years ago:
75 years ago:
The anniversaries of the day:
1580.- Battle of Alcántara: Spanish troops led by the 3rd Duke of Alba defeat the Portuguese near Lisbon. The kingdom of Portugal passes to Philip II, a union that lasted sixty years.
1772.- Charles III unifies the currency used in Spain by Pragmatic Sanction.
1859.- Antonio Ríos Rosas and Cardinal Antonnelli validate in the Vatican the disentailment and sale of ecclesiastical property that took place in May 1855.
1919.- Commercial aviation is born: a Havilland civil airplane transports two passengers from London to Paris in two hours and a quarter.
1920.- Frenchwoman Adrienne Bolland crosses the English Channel by plane, becoming the second woman to do so.
1924.- Royal Decree of Alfonso XIII granting the operation of the telephone in Spain to the National Telephone Company (CTN).
1932.- In Spain, the President of the Republic, Alcalá Zamora, commutes the death sentence to life imprisonment of General Sanjurjo for his coup attempt.
1936.- Russian revolutionaries Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and 14 others executed for attempting to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders.
1944.- Liberation of Paris: General De Gaulle gives his famous speech “Paris liberated!” and announces the end of the Nazi occupation.
1988.- A fire destroys a large part of the centre of Lisbon, between Baixa Pombalina and Chiado.
1989.- The Spanish Government grants broadcasting licenses to the private TV channels Antena 3, Canal Plus and Telecinco.
1991.- Belarus declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1994.- Typhoon Fred causes 1,261 deaths and 1 billion dollars in damages in Zhejiang (China).
1999.- Bosnian Serb general Momir Talic is arrested in Vienna and transferred to The Hague accused of organizing ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
2000.- Former Serbian president Ivan Stambolic disappears in Belgrade.
.- A Spanish tourist and her 14-year-old son are robbed and murdered during an excursion in Himachal Padresh (India).
2001.- Prince Haakon of Norway and Mette-Marit Tjessem marry in Oslo.
2003.- Al Qaeda claims responsibility for the attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad (Iraq) that caused 23 deaths.
2005.- Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in the United States, leaving 1,833 dead and losses of more than 65 billion euros as it moves through several states.
2018 .- The BOE publishes the royal decree that will allow the exhumation of Franco.
2019.- Seven dead after a helicopter and an ultralight plane collided in mid-air in Mallorca.
On August 25th were born:
1896.- Luis Blanco Soler, Spanish architect.
1905.- Celia Gámez, Spanish-Argentine ‘vedette’ and singer.
1912.- Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Spanish actor and theatre director.
.- Erick Honecker, German politician.
1917.- Mel Ferrer, American actor and filmmaker.
1918.- Leonard Bernstein, American musician.
1923.- Álvaro Mutis, Colombian writer.
1925.- Juanita Reina, Spanish singer and actress.
1930.- Sean Connery, British actor.
1934.- Ali Rafsanjani, Iranian politician.
1954.- Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello, British singer.
1970.- Claudia Schiffer, German model.
On August 25, the following people died:
1776.- David Hume, English philosopher.
1847.- Rafael Maroto, Carlist general.
1863.- Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist.
1900.- Friedrich W. Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer.
1981.- Bill Colleman, American classical jazz performer.
1984.- Truman Capote, American writer.
2001.- Ken Tyrrell, British racing driver and founder of the Formula 1 team.
2003.- Jose Antonio Saenz de Santamaria, Spanish military officer.
2005.- Olga Ramos (Trinidad Olga Ramos), Spanish cuplet player.
2009.- Edward Kennedy, American politician.
2012.- Neil A. Armstrong, American astronaut.
2015.- Jose Maria, Txiki, Benegas, Spanish politician.
2017.- Ulises Juárez Polanco, Nicaraguan writer.
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