On this day — August 25

the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004.

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.

becoming the first man-made object to do so.

killing 20.

wire fraud, and extortion.

is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

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).

the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.

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