Historical timeline for August 25

Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present): One hundred seventy people are killed in at least 26 separate attacks carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, leading to the governments of Myanmar and Malaysia designating the group as a terrorist organisation.

Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004.

Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.

Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.

A Filair Let L-410 Turbolet crashes on approach to Bandundu Airport, killing 20.

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.

NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.

American singer Aaliyah and several members of her entourage are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.

Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence).

Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.

Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after takeoff from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found.

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.

Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith.

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.

The last performance of the Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth Festival receives ovations of 45 minutes.

Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.

George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.