What happend on 25th August

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1980

Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix.

1975

Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the album that would launch him to superstardom.

1960

Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome.

1950

President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.

1946

Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship.

1944

World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.

1942

World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

1920

Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.

1916

The United States National Park Service is created.

1912

The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.