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25 Aug 1925
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
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25 Aug 1925
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Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
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25 Aug 1925
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
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25 Aug 1925
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Helen Willis wins her 3rd straight US Lawn Tennis Open
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| 75 years anniversary |
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25 Aug 1950
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Willy Deville: NYC, New York -- Rock vocalist / guitarist (Mink Deville)
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25 Aug 1950
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President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
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25 Aug 1950
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Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
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25 Aug 1950
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birth Willy DeVille, Mink DeVille, (1977 UK No.20 single 'Spanish Stroll'). Died of pancreatic cancer on 6th Aug 2009.
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25 Aug 1950
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Pres Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
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25 Aug 1950
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Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
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| 50 years anniversary |
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25 Aug 1975
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birth
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Molly Tuter: WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
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25 Aug 1975
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birth
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Petria Thomas: Lismore, NSW -- Swimmer (1996 Olympics - Silver Medalist)
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25 Aug 1975
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death
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Frans van Amelsvoort: Choir conductor, dies at 75
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25 Aug 1975
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John R Dunning: US physicist, dies at 67
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| 25 years anniversary |
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25 Aug 2000
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Academy Award-winning film score composer and record producer Jack Nitzsche died of a heart attack. He produced The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield and The Walker Brothers. Musical scores including The Exorcist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, co-wrote 'Up Where We Belong' with Buffy Sainte-Marie from 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman.
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25 Aug 2000
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Oasis, Primal Scream, Foo Fighters, The Bluetones, Muse, Eminem, Beck, Stereophonics, Blink 182, Slipknot, Placebo, Pulp, Eminem, Rage Against The Machine, Gomez, Limp Bizkit, Embrace and The Wannadies all appeared at Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds festival in England.
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| 20 years anniversary |
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25 Aug 2005
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Two former members of Guns N' Roses were suing singer Axl Rose for allegedly naming himself sole administrator of the US rock band's copyrights. Slash and Duff - otherwise known as Saul Hudson and Michael McKagan, accused Rose of "arrogance and ego". The legal action claimed the singer "was no longer willing to acknowledge the contributions of his former partners".
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| 15 years anniversary |
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25 Aug 2010
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A selection of previously unseen photographs of The Beatles went on display in Liverpool at the Victoria Gallery and Museum. The images were taken by Astrid Kirchherr the former girlfriend of original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe, who took pictures of the band's early years after meeting them in Hamburg in 1960. The exhibition included images of the Beatles on holiday in Tenerife and of the making of their film A Hard Day's Night in 1964 in Liverpool.
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