eso ha pasado un 25 Agosto

1830 : Beginning of the Belgian Revolution


On August 25, 1830, a riot broke out against the Dutch power following the performance of a patriotic opera in a theater in Brussels. This is the beginning of the revolt in the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands that will culminate in the creation of a new independent state of Belgium.

1944 : Paris liberated


On 25 August 1944, most of the city of Paris is liberated from German occupation by the second DB (Armoured Division) of Leclerc and 4th U.S. Infantry Division. Paris was to be bypassed by the allies to accelerate the advance towards Germany but due to Leclerc's insubordination, Eisenhower gave in and allowed the sending of French and American troops to help the the FFI (French Forces of Interior) insurgents to liberate the city.
The French capital which was to be destroyed under Hitler's orders was finally spared. The military governor of the city, Dietrich von Choltitz, surrendered to the French forces in the afternoon.

1989 : Voyager 2 reached Neptune


On August 25, 1989, the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 reached the vicinity of the planet Neptune, the planet farthest from the sun, more than 3 billion miles from Earth. Voyager 2 sent its first images of Neptune and then of its its moon Triton.

1991 : First version of Linux


On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student, announced its first release of a new free operating system based on UNIX system, on a Usenet newsgroup: Linux. The first version was launched in February 1992, and released under GNU (GNU General Public License). Today, the vast majority of web servers worldwide run on Linux kernel under Apache.

Actualidad del día : 25 Agosto

National Day in Uruguay
August 25 is National Day of Uruguay, which commemorates its independence from Brazil, declared on August 25, 1825.

Cita del día : 25 Agosto

Linus Torvalds
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

Cumpleaños : 25 Agosto

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Revolucionario francés (1767)
Hans Adolf Krebs, Bioquímico alemán, Premio Nobel de Medicina y Fisiología (1900)
Michael Rennie, Actor inglés (1909)
Võ Nguyên Giáp, General y político vietnamita (1911)
Erich Honecker, Politico alemán (1912)
Van Johnson, Actor americano (1916)
Mel Ferrer, Actor americano (1917)
Leonard Bernstein, Conductor y compositor estadounidense (1918)
Richard Greene, Actor inglés (1918)
Herbert Kroemer, Físico alemán-americano, Premio Nobel de Física (1928)
Sean Connery, Actor escocés (1930)
Tom Skerritt, Actor americano (1933)
Frederick Forsyth, Escritor Inglés (1938)
John Badham, Director de cine americano (1939)
José van Dam, Barítono belgo (1940)
Anne Archer, Actriz americana (1947)
Gene Simmons, Músico estadounidense israelí (Kiss) (1949)
John Savage , Actor americano (1950)
Elvis Costello, Músico inglés (1954)
Tim Burton, Director de cine americano (1958)
Billy Ray Cyrus, Músico estadounidense (1961)
Vivian Campbell, Músico irlandés (Def Leppard) (1962)
Maxim Kontsevich, Matemático ruso (1964)
Blair Underwood, Actor americano (1964)
Joanne Whalley, Actriz inglesa (1964)
Tom Hollander, Actor inglés (1967)
Claudia Schiffer, Modelo alemana (1970)
Eric Millegan, Actor americano (1974)
Petria Thomas, Nadadora australiana (1975)
Eve Angeli, Cantante francesa (1980)
Amy Macdonald, Cantante escocesa (1987)
Blake Lively, Actriz americana (1987)
Alexandra Burke, Cantante inglesa (1988)

Nos han dejado un 25 Agosto

Genghis Khan, Emperador mongol (1227)
Henry Morgan, Corsario galés (1688)
Niccolo Jommelli, Compositor italiano (1774)
David Hume, Filósofo escocés (1776)
James Watt, Inventor escocés (1819)
James Watt, Inventor escocés (1819)
Michael Faraday, Químico y físico inglés (1867)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Filósofo alemán (1900)
Henri Becquerel, Físico francés, Premio Nobel (1908)
Stanley Bruce, Primer ministro de Australia (1923-1929) (1967)
Paul Muni, Actor polaco (1967)
Eyvind Johnson, Escritor sueco, Premio Nobel de Literatura (1976)
Truman Capote, Escritor americano (1984)
Françoise Dolto, Psicoanalista francesa (1988)
Carl Barks, Dibujante estadounidense (2000)
Aaliyah, Cantante americana (2001)
Philippe Léotard, Actor francés (2001)
Raymond Barre, Político francés (2007)
Ted Kennedy, Político estadounidense (2009)
Neil Armstrong, Astronauta estadounidense (2012)
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