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August 25

Rings of Neptune

1258 – George Mouzalon, the regent of the Empire of Nicaea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by nobles under the future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces engaged the Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf in present-day Sarbinowo, Poland.
1914 – World War I: During the sack of Louvain in Belgium, German troops burned the town's Catholic university, destroying several medieval manuscripts.
1989 – The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).
2011 – Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people were killed in an arson attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.

Velma Caldwell Melville (d. 1924)
Babe Siebert (d. 1939)
Theresa Andrews (b. 1962)
Ray Jones (d. 2007)

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