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On This Day, August 25
- 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.
- 2017: 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.
- 2012: Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.
- 2011: Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.
- 2010: A Filair Let L-410 Turbolet crashes on approach to Bandundu Airport, killing 20.