{"id":23050,"date":"2020-08-25T04:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23050"},"modified":"2020-08-24T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:47:40","slug":"history-of-25-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-25-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 25 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1990 &#8211; Military action was\nauthorized by the United Nations to enforce the trade embargo that had been\nplaced on Iraq after their invasion of Kuwait.<\/li><li>1991 &#8211; Byelorussia declared\nindependence from the Soviet Union.<\/li><li>1992 &#8211; It was reported by\nresearchers that cigarette smoking significantly increased the risk of\ndeveloping cataracts.<\/li><li>1993 &#8211; The Dow Jones Industrial\nAverage closed at 3,652.09, an all-time high.<\/li><li>1995 &#8211; Harry Wu, human rights\nactivist, returned to the&nbsp;United States. He said the spying case against\nhim in China was &#8220;all lies.&#8221;<\/li><li>1997 &#8211; The tobacco industry agreed\nto an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of&nbsp;Florida.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; A survey released said that\n1\/3 of Americans use the Internet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2001\u00a0\u2013 American singer\u00a0Aaliyah\u00a0and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from\u00a0Marsh Harbour Airport,\u00a0Bahamas.<\/li><li>2006\u00a0\u2013 Former Prime Minister of Ukraine\u00a0Pavlo Lazarenko\u00a0is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.<\/li><li>2012\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Voyager 1\u00a0spacecraft enters\u00a0interstellar space\u00a0becoming the first man-made object to do so.<\/li><li>2017\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hurricane Harvey\u00a0makes landfall in\u00a0Texas\u00a0as a powerful\u00a0Category\u00a04 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since\u00a02004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125\u00a0billion in damage.<\/li><li>2017 \u2013 The\u00a0Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army\u00a0launches its\u00a0second large-scale attack\u00a0at the\u00a0Bangladesh\u2013Myanmar border, prompting a massive military crackdown on\u00a0Rohingya people\u00a0by the\u00a0Myanmar Army.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating BIrthday Today <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rachel Bilson, American actress<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Jan-Berrie Burger, Namibian cricketer<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Camille Pin, French tennis player<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jung Jung-suk, South Korean footballer (d. 2011)<\/li><li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0James Rossiter, English race car driver<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Florian Mohr, German footballer<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Anya Monzikova, Russian-American model and actress<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rodney Ferguson, American footballer<\/li><li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stacey Farber, Canadian actress<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Velimir Jovanovi\u0107, Serbian footballer<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Blake Lively, American model and actress<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Justin Upton, American baseball player<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Adam Warren, American baseball player<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0James Wesolowski, Australian footballer<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer<\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hiram Mier, Mexican footballer<\/li><li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Max Muncy, American baseball player<\/li><li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress<\/li><li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Ricardo Rodriguez, Swiss footballer<\/li><li>1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Edmunds Augstkalns, Latvian ice hockey player<\/li><li>1998\u00a0\u2013\u00a0China Anne McClain, American actress and singer<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; Military action was authorized by the United Nations to enforce the trade embargo that had been placed on Iraq after their invasion of Kuwait. 1991 &#8211; Byelorussia declared independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 &#8211; It was reported by researchers that cigarette smoking significantly increased the risk of developing cataracts. 1993 &#8211; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1365,1325],"class_list":{"0":"post-23050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-25-august","10":"tag-today-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5ZM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23051,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050\/revisions\/23051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}