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- 1923
- Flat Rock is incorporated as a village in Michigan.
- 1928
- The Robert Burns Memorial is dedicated in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1945
- In Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan, the Sōya Main Line's Wakkanai Pier station and Chihaku ferry cease operation when Sakhalin becomes part of the Soviet Union.
- 1974
- The Cologne Stadtbahn's Innenstadt Tunnel is extended under the Ebertplatz.
- 1984
- The Washington Metro's Red Line is extended north to Grosvenor–Strathmore station in North Bethesda, Maryland.
- 1998
- The Mokpo–Muan segment of the Seohaean Expressway opens to traffic in South Korea.
- 2008
- Black Rock City rises out of the playa during the Burning Man festival.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 25, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 25 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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