What happend on 25th August

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2005

Tom Boonen wins the World Championship cycling in Madrid, Spain.

2003

Fifty-two are killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.

2003

The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories.

1991

Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union

1991

Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he is working on a new free computer operating system.

1989

Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.

1989

Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune, the last major planet it could visit before leaving the Solar System.

1989

Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.

1988

The historical center of Lisbon is destroyed by a fire.

1980

Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix.