Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 25

August 25: Independence Day in Uruguay (1825)

• 1814 - Washington, D.C. was burnt down during the War of 1812.

• 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax.

• 1912 - The Kuomintang was founded by Sung Chiao-jen and Dr. Sun Yat-sen (pictured) in Guangdong, China.

• 1920 - In the Polish-Soviet War, the Battle of Warsaw ended with a Russian defeat.

• 1989 - The Voyager 2 spacecraft reached Neptune, the last planet it could visit before leaving the solar system.

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