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25 August 2015 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 25 August 2015 was a Tuesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Don't Be So Hard on Yourself” by Jess Glynne.
- Top Film of 2015
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2015 was Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 25 August is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 25 August 2015 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 25 August 2015 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 25 August
- 2003 NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
- 2005 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.
- 2006 Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
- 2012 Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.
- 2017 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004.
Famous people born on 25 August
- Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor (born 1976)
- Kimi Antonelli, Italian race car driver (born 2006)
- Blake Lively, American model and actress (born 1987)
- Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer (1930–2020)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2015 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2015 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 13 February – The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition sign a cross-party, non-partisan agreement to tackle climate change, seek a strong global climate deal, and to end the use of coal for power generation in the UK.
- 10 March – Queen Elizabeth II names the new luxury cruise ship Britannia, the largest ever cruise ship designed for the British holiday market.
- 20 March – A partial solar eclipse occurs, ranging from 85% totality in London and southern England to 98% totality in northern Scotland.
Life in 2015
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.35
Loaf of Bread
£1.42
Average House
£197,807
Weekly Wage
£768.00
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