Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 25
August 25: Independence Day in Uruguay (1825)
- 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrated The Great Moon Hoax.
- 1920 - In the Polish-Soviet War, the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Russian defeat.
- 1944 - Paris was liberated by the Allies during World War II.
- 1980 - Microsoft announced their version of UNIX, Xenix
- 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune, headed out of the solar system.