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25 August 2022 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 25 August 2022 was a Thursday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Afraid to Feel” by LF System.
- Top Film of 2022
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 25 August is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 25 August 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 25 August 2022 was Waning Crescent.
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 2022 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 6 February – The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne as Queen of the United Kingdom.
- 8 April – The home secretary, Priti Patel, apologises for delays in accepting Ukrainian refugees, with only a quarter of the 41,000 granted visas having entered the UK so far.
- 4 May – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: A new set of sanctions is announced by the government, with Russia banned from using British management consulting, accounting and PR services.
Life in 2022
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£4.50
Loaf of Bread
£1.80
Average House
£283,615
Weekly Wage
£975.00
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