{"id":208170,"date":"2020-01-01T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/august-25\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T00:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:34:23","slug":"august-25","status":"publish","type":"otd_day","link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/august-25\/","title":{"rendered":"August 25: Facts & Historical Events On This Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

August 25th is officially Banana Split Day and Kiss and Make Up Day.

Welcome to day 237 of 365! There are days remaining in 2025.

To help you get through the rest of the day be sure to check out what events in the past has made August 25th so important in history.

Did you know that on this day in 1768, Captain James Cook set sail on his first voyage from Plymouth headed for the Pacific Ocean? Cook and his crew would not return home for another two years and 11 months.

Keep reading for more fun & interesting facts about August 25th in history!\r\n\r\n

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What memorable events happened on August 25 in history? Keep reading to find out!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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2022\r\n\r\n

US President Biden approved student debt loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 for those who are qualified.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Joe Biden announced this decision following an extension on multiple federal student loan payment pauses, which was first put in motion in March 2020. Of the 45 million federal student loan borrowers, 43 million qualified for some loan forgiveness.\r\n\r\n

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2012\r\n\r\n

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entered interstellar space, becoming the first artificial object to do so.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2006\r\n\r\n

Naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor discovered the world’s tallest tree in Redwood National Park, California.\r\n\r\n
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Atkins and Taylor named the tree Hyperion, which measured 380.1 ft (115.85 m) tall, making it the largest known tree on earth.\r\n\r\n

GoldenEye 007’s development began before the Nintendo 64 was even released. The Game’s developers didn’t even have a development version of the console to work with while creating the game, so they had to playtest it with an older Sega controller.\r\n\r\n

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1991\r\n\r\n

Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1958\r\n\r\n

Businessman Momofuku Ando marketed the first-ever pre-cooked instant noodles.\r\n\r\n
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After years of experimentation, Ando released the world’s first instant noodles called Chikin Ramen.\r\n\r\n

The first flights left a mile north of where Heathrow Airport now sits, and the flights were operated by Air transport & Travel Ltd, now known as British Airways.\r\n\r\n

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1910\r\n\r\n

Walden W. Shaw and John D. Hertz founded the Shaw Livery Company and introduced the yellow cabs to attract passengers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1894\r\n\r\n

A Japanese scientist, Shibasaburo Kitasato, isolated the bacterium of the Bubonic Plague.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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