Today's Holidays in August 25

✡️ Religious Observances

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

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2017 — Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United... ↗
• 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... ↗
• 1997 — Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 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