August 25 carries no major Indian national observance. It marks the anniversary of Paris's liberation from Nazi occupation in 1944, and in India, the day the first Indian officers received the King's Commission in the Army in 1917 — a first concrete step toward the Indianisation of a force that had, until then, reserved command authority for the British.
On this day
1944Paris was liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation, as the French 2nd Armored Division and the US 4th Infantry Division swept into the city and the German garrison commander surrendered rather than carry out Hitler's order to destroy it.United States Army via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1991The Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty as constitutionally binding, formalising Belarus's independence from the Soviet Union days after a failed hardline coup in Moscow accelerated the USSR's collapse.Yeghishedaviti via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
1917IndiaSeven Indians serving in the British Indian Army were granted the King's Commission, becoming the first Indian officers with authority equal to British officers — including over British troops — a first step in the Indianisation of the Army's officer corps.The Sphere via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Did you know
Instant ramen was invented by Momofuku Ando and first sold in Japan as Chikin Ramen on August 25, 1958 — a dish now eaten in the tens of billions of servings a year worldwide traces back to a single product launch on this date.