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Tuesday, August 25, 1998
- A pretrial conference is scheduled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Stephen Fagan, the father charged with kidnapping his two daughters nearly 20 years ago.
- On Wednesday, August 26, President Jacques Chirac is scheduled to make his annual policy speech.
- On Thursday, August 27, the Smithsonian is set to unveil Minerva, an intelligent mobile robot that will give tours at the National Museum of American History in Washington.
- On Friday, August 28, a hearing is scheduled in Chicago for two boys, ages 7 and 8, accused in the murder of an 11-year-old girl.
- On Saturday, August 29, the 30-day cooling-off period imposed by U.S. National Mediation Board on pilots for Northwest Airlines expires at 12:01 a.m. EDT.
- On Sunday, August 30, U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to return from his vacation in Martha's Vineyard.
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- Today is Independence Day in Uruguay.
- Actress Anne Archer ("The Falcon Crest") is 51.
- Actor Sean Connery (James Bond movies) is 68.
- Musician Elvis Costello is 44.
- Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus is 37.
- Former TV host Monty Hall ("Let's Make a Deal") is 75.
- Actor Anthony Heald ("The Silence of the Lambs") is 54.
- Talk show host Regis Philbin is 65.
- Actor John Savage ("The Deer Hunter") is 49.
- Model Claudia Schiffer is 28.
- Actor Tom Skerritt ("Picket Fences") is 65.
- Actor Blair Underwood ("LA Law") is 34.
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- In 325, the Council Of Nicaea ended with the adoption of the Nicene Creed, establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
- In 1580, Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva defeated the Portuguese at the Battle of Alcantara, securing Portugal as a Spanish realm.
- In 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded and named in honor of the Duke of Orleans of France.
- In 1825, Uruguay declared its independence from Spain.
- In 1830, a revolt broke out in the French-speaking provinces of the Netherlands, against union into Belgium.
- In 1875, Capt. Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel.
- In 1883, under the terms of the Treaty of Hue, France assumed the protectorate over Annam and Tonkin in what is now Vietnam.
- In 1921, the United States and Germany signed a peace treaty ending the state of war between them.
- In 1936, after a five-day show trial, 16 opponents of Josef Stalin were executed in Russia.
- In 1940, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were incorporated into the Soviet Union.
- In 1940, the British Air Force dropped its first bombs on Berlin in an overnight raid.
- In 1942, the Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King George VI, was killed in a plane crash during a war mission to Iceland.
- In 1943, Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia.
- In 1961, Brazilian President Janio Quadros resigned after only six months, claiming "terrible forces came forward to fight me." He went into exile in Australia.
- In 1964, Kenneth Kaunda became president-designate of Zambia, formerly Northern Rhodesia.
- In 1967, a new constitution came into effect in Paraguay, now celebrated each year by a public holiday.
- In 1967, the leader of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, was shot dead.
- In 1975, in Rhodesia, formerly Southern Rhodesia, talks between the white minority government and black leaders opened in railway carriages near Victoria Falls.
- In 1978, the Turin shroud, once venerated as the burial cloth of Christ, went on public display for the first time in 45 years.
- In 1988, direct talks between Iran and Iraq began in an attempt to stop their Gulf War.
- In 1989, after a 12-year, 4-billion-mile space journey, Voyager 2 flew over the cloudtops of the giant planet Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swampy areas, frozen lakes and craters.
- In 1991, Byelorussia (Belarus) declared independence from the Soviet Union.
- In 1997, Egon Krenz, East Germany's last hard-line Communist leader, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in jail for the deaths of citizens killed as they tried to flee to the West over the Berlin Wall.
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