Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 25

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 * 1227 – Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, died after a lengthy illness during the Mongol conquest of Western Xia.
 * 1258 – George Mouzalon, the regent of the Empire of Nicaea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by nobles under the future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
 * 1758 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces engaged the Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf in present-day Sarbinowo, Poland.
 * 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
 * 1975 – Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
 * 1989 – The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).
 * 2011 – Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people are killed in an arson at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.


 * Born/died this day: | Gennadius of Constantinople |d|471| Genghis Khan |d|1227| Henry Morgan |d|1688| Karl Friedrich Bahrdt |b|1741| John Neal |b|1793| Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias |b|1803| Charles Richet |b|1850| Agnes Mowinckel |b|1875 Mary Tappan Wright |d|1916| Velma Caldwell Melville |d|1924|Sean Connery |b|1930| Babe Siebert |d|1939| Theresa Andrews |b|1962| Stan McCabe |d|1968| Ricardo Rodríguez |b|1992| Ray Jones |d|2007