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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_25" title="August 25">August 25</a></b>:
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1270" title="1270">1270</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_III_of_France" title="Philip III of France">Philip III</a></b> became King of France following the death of his father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France" title="Louis IX of France">Louis IX</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Crusade" title="Eighth Crusade">Eighth Crusade</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1537" title="1537">1537</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honourable_Artillery_Company" title="Honourable Artillery Company">Honourable Artillery Company</a></b>, now the oldest surviving regiment in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>, was granted a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1875" title="1875">1875</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Webb" title="Matthew Webb">Matthew Webb</a></b> became the first person to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_English_Channel_swimmers" title="List of successful English Channel swimmers">swim across the English Channel</a>, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001" title="2001">2001</a> – American singer <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaliyah" title="Aaliyah">Aaliyah</a></b> and several members of her record company were killed when <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Marsh_Harbour_Cessna_402_crash" title="2001 Marsh Harbour Cessna 402 crash">their overloaded aircraft crashed</a></b> shortly after taking off from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Harbour_Airport" title="Marsh Harbour Airport">Marsh Harbour Airport</a> in the Bahamas.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> space probe <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a></b></i> became the first man-made object to enter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space#Interstellar_space" title="Outer space">interstellar space</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratian" title="Gratian">Gratian</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 383); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neal_(writer)" title="John Neal (writer)">John Neal</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1793); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsuzsa_K%C3%B6rm%C3%B6czy" title="Zsuzsa Körmöczy">Zsuzsa Körmöczy</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1924); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith" title="Samantha Smith">Samantha Smith</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1985)</p>
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