^B{^#!16!25 August^N! National Day of Uruguay. Feast day of St Ebba, St Genesius the Comedian, St Gregory of Utrecht, St Louis IX, King of France, St Mennas of Constantinople, and St Patricia.
^B{325^B} The Council of Nicaea set the rules for the computation of Easter. ^B{1830^B} A revolution against the Netherlands union erupted in Brussels. ^B{1914^B} Louvain was sacked by the Germans. ^B{1919^B} The first daily scheduled flights started between London and Paris. ^B{1931^B} Ramsay MacDonald formed a National Government. ^B{1940^B} The RAF made the first air raid on Berlin. ^B{1944^B} The Allies liberated Paris. ^B{1960^B} The XVIIth Olympic Games opened in Rome. ^B{1989^B} The US space probe ^I{Voyager^I} reached Neptune; pictures of Triton, its moon, revealed the existence of two additional moons.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Ivan IV ('The Terrible'), Tsar of Russia, ^B{1530^B}; Allan Pinkerton, founder of the US detective agency, ^B{1819^B}; Leonard Bernstein, US conductor and composer, ^B{1918^B}; Sean Connery, Scottish actor, ^B{1930^B}; Martin Amis, English novelist, ^B{1949^B}.^B}
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter, ^B{1691^B}; David Hume, Scottish philosopher, ^B{1776^B}; William Herschel, English astronomer, ^B{1822^B}; Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, ^B{1867^B}; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, ^B{1900^B}; Truman Capote, US author, ^B{1984^B}.
