Public Holidays on August 25

• 🌍 Eid Milad-un-Nabi (estimated) (Pakistan)
• 🌍 Hari Keputeraan Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. (Malaysia)
• 🌍 Maulid Nabi Muhammad (perkiraan) (Indonesia)
• 🌍 المولد النبوي الشريف (تقديري) (Egypt)
• 🌍 عيد المولد النبوي (تقديري) (United Arab Emirates)

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Religious Observances on August 25

• Islamic: Mawlid (Birth) al-Nabi ﷺ
• Islamic: Veiling of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
• Islamic: Birth of Mawlana Shaykh Abdullāh al Dāghestāni ق
• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Abu Yāqub Yūsuf al-Hamadāni ق
• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Abdul Khāliq al-Ghujdawāni ق
• Islamic: Urs of Mawlāna Ubaydullaāh Ahrār ق
• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Muhammad az-Zāhid ق

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On This Day in History — August 25

• 2017 — Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. The storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern...
• 2012 — Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
• 2006 — Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
• 2001 — American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
• 1997 — Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
• 1991 — Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.

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Notable Births on August 25

• 1998 — China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
• 1994 — Edmunds Augstkalns, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1994 — Kajol Aikat, Indian writer & novelist
• 1992 — Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress
• 1992 — Ricardo Rodriguez, Swiss footballer
• 1989 — Hiram Mier, Mexican footballer

Notable Deaths on August 25

• 2017 — Rich Piana, American bodybuilder (b. 1971)
• 2016 — Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2015 — José María Benegas, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
• 2015 — Francis Sejersted, Norwegian historian and academic (b. 1936)
• 2014 — William Greaves, American director and producer (b. 1926)
• 2014 — Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1936)

Public Holidays on August 26

• 🌍 Id el Maulud (estimated) (Nigeria)
• 🌍 Milad-un-Nabi (estimated) (India)

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Religious Observances on August 26

• Hindu: Krishna Janmashtami

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On This Day in History — August 26

• 2015 — Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
• 2011 — The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.
• 2009 — Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years.
• 1999 — Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
• 1997 — Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
• 1980 — After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.

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Notable Births on August 26

• 1993 — Keke Palmer, American singer-songwriter, presenter and television personality
• 1991 — Dylan O'Brien, American actor
• 1990 — Mateo Musacchio, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 — James Harden, American basketball player
• 1988 — Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1988 — Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player

Notable Deaths on August 26

• 2017 — Tobe Hooper, American film director (b. 1943)
• 2015 — Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (b. 1911)
• 2015 — Donald Eric Capps, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1939)
• 2015 — P. J. Kavanagh, English poet and author (b. 1931)
• 2015 — Stefanos Manikas, Greek politician (b. 1952)
• 2015 — Francisco San Diego, Filipino bishop (b. 1935)