August 25th in History

1981: The spacecraft Voyager 2 flies past the planet Saturn
1988: Romanian Chess master Mihai Suba and his son defect to the West during an international tournament in London

August 25th birthdays

1530: Ivan the Terrible, Crowned as first Tsar of Russia in 1547
1918: Leonard Bernstein, Composer and conductor
1930: Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1938: Frederick Forsyth, British Author