Holidays Calendar for August 25, 2018
Independence Day of Uruguay is celebrated on August 25. This national holiday commemorates the declaration of Uruguay's independence from the Empire of Brazil in 1825.
Day of Songun is a North Korean public holiday celebrated on August 25. It was established in 2013 to honor the country's “military first” policy that prioritizes the Korea People's Army in the allocation of resources and state affairs.
Ghost Festival (also Hungry Ghost Festival) is a traditional Buddhist, Taoist and Chinese folk religions festival. It's annually observed on the 15th day of the 7th month in the Chinese calender. South China celebrates the festival on the 14th day.
International Bat Night is held annually on the last full weekend of August. It takes place in more than 30 countries, primarily those covered by the Agreement on the Conservation of Population of European Bats.
Aromantic Spectrum Visibility Day, also known as simply Aromantic Visibility Day, is observed twice a year, on June 5 and August 25. It was created to promote the visibility of people on the aromantic spectrum and the issues they face, both outside and within the LGBTQIA+ community.
In Brazil, there are several commemorative days of the Armed Forces. One of them is Soldier's Day (Dia do Soldado). It is celebrated on August 25 to commemorate the birthday of Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, an outstanding Brazilian marshal.
Ukrainians, employed in civil aviation, celebrate their professional holiday, Aviation Day, on the last Saturday in August. This holiday was established by presidential decree in 1993.
National Park Service Founders Day is observed annually on August 25. It is celebrated to commemorate the signing of the National Park Service Organic Act and highlight the contribution of the National Park System to conservation and preservation efforts.
National Tech-Voc Day (Pambansang Araw ng Edukasyong Teknolohikal-Bokasyonal) is observed in the Philippines on August 25 every year. It was created to promote technical and vocational education and training.
On the last Saturday of August, all Russian long-haul truck drivers celebrate their professional holiday. Although Long-Haul Truck Driver Day is not an official observance in Russia, it is supported by a number of large oil companies.
Finnish Nature Day is an annual holiday dedicated to the uniqueness of Finland’s nature. It is celebrated on the last Saturday of August. In 2017, Finnish Nature Day was declared an official flag day, alongside holidays such as Mother’s Day and Kalevala Day.
Liberation Day of Paris on August 25 is a very important day for the French. This day commemorates the liberation of Paris from German occupation.
Many historic and ceremonial counties in the United Kingdom have established county days to celebrate their identity, history, heritage, culture, and local traditions. For example, Nottinghamshire Day is celebrated annually on August 25.
Iloilo City Charter Day (Araw ng Lungsod ng Iloilo) is a special non-working holiday in the Philippine city of Iloilo. It is celebrated annually on August 25 to commemorate the day when Iloilo was officially granted city status for the second time.
On August 25, indulge yourself with a banana split, a delicious ice cream-based dessert, as the National Banana Split Day is celebrated on this date.
August 25 is a good day to go to a bar and order a whiskey sour since it is National Whiskey Sour Day. This unofficial holiday celebrates an iconic whiskey cocktail that has been around for more than a century and a half.
Instant Ramen Day is celebrated in Japan on August 25 every year. The celebration was initiated by the World Instant Noodles Association to commemorate the day in 1958 when Nissin Foods launched the world’s first instant ramen.
Festivals on August 25, 2018
- Balingup Medieval Carnivale in Balingup, Australia
- Long Night of Museums in Berlin, Germany
- Bloemencorso Vollenhove in Vollenhove, Netherlands
- Onam Festival in Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Northwest Art and Air Festival in Albany (OR), USA
- Reading and Leeds Festivals in Leeds, United Kingdom
- Big Feastival in Kingham, United Kingdom
- European Medieval Festival in Horsens, Denmark
- Melbourne Writers Festival in Melbourne, Australia
- Reading and Leeds Festivals in Reading, United Kingdom
- Shrewsbury Folk Festival in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
- Copenhagen Cooking & Food Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Leeds West Indian Carnival in Leeds, United Kingdom
- American Folk Festival in Bangor, USA
- Tønder Festival in Tønder, Denmark
This Day in History
- 2018 Died: John McCain, American politician and military officer who served as a United States Senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018.
- 2012 Died: Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
- 2012 American space probe Voyager 1 launched by NASA to study the outer Solar system on September 5, 1977, entered interstellar space. It became the first man-made object to do so.
- 1987 Born: Blake Lively, American actress. She had her breakthrough role in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl.
- 1985 Died: Samantha Smith, American peace activist and child actress who became famous for her anti-war outreaches during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1981 Born: Rachel Bilson, American actress. She is best known for her television roles as Summer Roberts on The O.C. and as Dr. Zoe Hart on Hart of Dixie.
- 1976 Died: Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature, heshared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson.
- 1976 Born: Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor who had his breakthrough for portraying vampire Eric Northman in the American fantasy horror television series True Blood.
- 1970 Died: Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect, engineer, and professor. He was a father of earthquake-proof design and built many broadcasting and observation towers, including the Tokyo Tower.
- 1970 Born: Claudia Schiffer, German model and actress based in England. She rose to fame in the 1990s as one of the world's most successful models, attaining supermodel status.
- 1970 Born: Jo Dee Messina, American country music artist. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week number-one songs from the same album.
- 1968 Born: Rachael Ray, American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She has hosted several successful television shows and written several cookbooks.
- 1967 Born: Tom Hollander, British actor of stage and screen. He gained attention portraying Mr. Collins in Pride & Prejudice, and as Lord Cutler Beckett in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
- 1967 Died: Paul Muni, American stage and film actor, one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Brothers studio during the 1930s. He was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts.
- 1961 Born: Billy Ray Cyrus, American country singer, songwriter and actor. He is probably best known for his 1992 hit single "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart.
- 1961 Brazilian president Jânio Quadros resigned after seven months in office. This event initiated a political crisis that culminated in the 1964 Brazilian military coup.
- 1958 Born: Tim Burton, American director, producer, writer, animator, and illustrator. Known for pioneering goth culture in the American film industry, Burton is famous for his gothic horror and fantasy films.
- 1954 Born: Elvis Costello (stage name of Declan Patrick MacManus), English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television host. In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- 1949 Born: Gene Simmons, American musician. Also known by his stage persona "The Demon", he was the bassist, co-founder, and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss.
- 1944 Born: Anthony Heald, American character actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's jailer, Dr. Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon.
- 1944 The German garrison surrendered Paris to the Allies, ending the occupation of the French capital that had lasted since the signing of the Armistice of 22 June 1940.
- 1939 The United Kingdom and Poland formed a military alliance, in which the UK promised to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
- 1933 At least 9,000 people died in the Diexi earthquake that struck Mao County, Sichuan, China. The earthquake destroyed the town of Diexi and surrounding villages.
- 1930 Born: Sean Connery, Scottish actor. He is best remembered as the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.
- 1928 Born: Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist and engineer. He was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.
- 1918 Died: James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776.
- 1918 Born: Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. He was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim.
- 1914 The German Army deliberately destroyed the library of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts were lost forever.
- 1908 Died: Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist. He is known as one of the discoverers of radioactivity. For this work in the field he received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics that he shared with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie.
- 1900 Died: Friedrich Nietzsche, German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who is widely regarded as one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.
- 1894 Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague. He published his findings in The Lancet, one of the world's oldest and best known general medical journals.
- 1883 France and Viet Nam signed the Treaty of Huế. According to the treaty, Viet Nam recognized a French protectorate over the Vietnamese provinces of Annam and Tonkin.
- 1867 Died: Michael Faraday, English scientist whose contributions to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry were crucial for the development of these sciences.
- 1835 The New York Sun published the first of the six articles of The Great Moon Hoax, announcing the discovery of life and even civilization on the Moon.
- 1724 Born: George Stubbs, English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. His painting Whistlejacket hangs in the National Gallery, London.