Replay a Day

Replaying Wednesday, August 25, 2004

The August 25, 2004 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 237 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.

If you were born on this day, you are 21 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, August 25, 2025, 311 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, in 53 days. You have lived for 7,981 days, or about 191,549 hours, or about 11,492,952 minutes, or about 689,577,120 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

Sean Connery (actor, character actor, film actor, film producer, milkman, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 25, 1930)
Blake Lively (actor, fashion model, film actor, model, television actor, born August 25, 1987)
Alexander Skarsgård (actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, television actor, born August 25, 1976)
Tim Burton (actor, animator, designer, film director, film producer, poet, screenwriter, writer, born August 25, 1958)
Rachel Bilson (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 25, 1981)
Gene Simmons (actor, blogger, composer, film actor, film producer, guitarist, record producer, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, television actor, television producer, voice actor, born August 25, 1949)
Billy Ray Cyrus (film actor, film producer, guitarist, singer-songwriter, television actor, television producer, born August 25, 1961)
Rajiv Kapoor (actor, film director, film producer, born August 25, 1962)
Liu Yifei (actor, film actor, model, singer, born August 25, 1987)
Ludwig II of Bavaria (art collector, born August 25, 1845)
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (drug trafficker, born August 25, 1962)
Tom Hollander (actor, film actor, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, television producer, born August 25, 1967)
Joanne Whalley (actor, artist, film actor, singer, stage actor, born August 25, 1964)
Claudia Schiffer (actor, film actor, model, born August 25, 1970)
Erich Honecker (autobiographer, politician, resistance fighter, born August 25, 1912)
Elvis Costello (composer, guitarist, record producer, singer-songwriter, born August 25, 1954)
Shock G (musician, rapper, record producer, singer, songwriter, born August 25, 1963)
Leonard Bernstein (associate professor, composer, conductor, film score composer, musicologist, pianist, born August 25, 1918)
George Wallace (boxer, judge, lawyer, military officer, politician, born August 25, 1919)
Ben Falcone (comedian, film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, writer, born August 25, 1973)
Joe Wright (film director, television director, born August 25, 1972)
Aras Bulut İynemli (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 25, 1990)
Tom Skerritt (actor, character actor, film actor, model, television actor, born August 25, 1933)
Regis Philbin (film actor, musician, presenter, recording artist, singer, television actor, television presenter, voice actor, born August 25, 1931)
Võ Nguyên Giáp (four-star rank, journalist, politician, soldier, writer, born August 25, 1911)
Mel Ferrer (actor, film director, film producer, journalist, screenwriter, theatrical director, born August 25, 1917)
Rob Halford (composer, heavy metal singer, musician, songwriter, born August 25, 1951)
Robert Horry (basketball player, born August 25, 1970)
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera (escort, hitman, born August 25, 1965)
Kel Mitchell (actor, dancer, film actor, film producer, musician, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born August 25, 1978)
Santa Maria Faustina Kostka (nun, born August 25, 1905)
Vinesh Phogat (amateur wrestler, born August 25, 1994)
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (businessperson, entrepreneur, politician, theologian, writer, born August 25, 1934)
Katie Piper (cosmetologist, journalist, model, television presenter, born August 25, 1983)
Nagisa Shibuya (Japanese idol, born August 25, 1996)
Sergei Solovyov (actor, drama teacher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, born August 25, 1944)
Keizo Shibusawa (businessperson, politician, born August 25, 1896)
Ricardo Rodriguez (association football player, born August 25, 1992)
Blair Underwood (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, television actor, voice actor, writer, born August 25, 1964)
Xavier Niel (angel investor, businessperson, entrepreneur, organizational founder, born August 25, 1967)
Alexandra Burke (actor, singer, born August 25, 1988)
Louis I of Spain (politician, born August 25, 1707)
Nobuyuki Hiyama (actor, seiyū, born August 25, 1967)
Krushna Abhishek (actor, television actor, born August 25, 1980)
Rachael Ray (chef, entrepreneur, restaurateur, television presenter, writer, born August 25, 1968)
Vijayakanth (actor, film director, politician, born August 25, 1952)
John Savage (actor, composer, film actor, film producer, television actor, theatrical director, born August 25, 1949)
Van Johnson (dancer, film actor, singer, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1916)
Ally Walker (actor, film actor, film director, television actor, voice actor, born August 25, 1961)
Caris LeVert (basketball player, born August 25, 1994)
Giddens Ko (film director, screenwriter, writer, born August 25, 1978)
Mia Zapata (guitarist, musician, pianist, singer, born August 25, 1965)
Jonas Gahr Støre (diplomat, politician, born August 25, 1960)
Ludwig I of Bavaria (poet, born August 25, 1786)
Frederick Forsyth (aircraft pilot, foreign correspondent, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, spy, writer, born August 25, 1938)
Matthias Steiner (singer, weightlifter, born August 25, 1982)
Eckart von Hirschhausen (actor, magician, physician, television presenter, born August 25, 1967)
Enomoto Takeaki (politician, samurai, born August 25, 1836)
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (poet, politician, revolutionary, writer, born August 25, 1767)
Johann Gottfried Herder (aesthetician, literary critic, literary scholar, opinion journalist, philosopher, poet, theologian, translator, writer, born August 25, 1744)
Hendra Setiawan (badminton player, born August 25, 1984)
Fatih Akın (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, born August 25, 1973)
Ivan Jurić (association football manager, association football player, born August 25, 1975)
Jan Delay (composer, dub actor, rapper, singer, born August 25, 1976)
Georgiy Daneliya (actor, film director, opinion journalist, screenwriter, born August 25, 1930)
Masato Wada (actor, singer, born August 25, 1979)
Takurō Ishii (baseball player, born August 25, 1970)
Franco Parisi (economist, politician, born August 25, 1967)
Julia Davis (comedian, screenwriter, stage actor, television producer, born August 25, 1966)
Song Dandan (actor, comedian, film actor, television actor, born August 25, 1961)
Allan Pinkerton (army scout, businessperson, cooper, detective, intelligence officer, spymaster, writer, born August 25, 1819)
Margarita Terekhova (actor, film actor, screenwriter, stage actor, theatrical director, born August 25, 1942)
Kaytranada (composer, disc jockey, record producer, born August 25, 1992)
Vivian Campbell (association football player, guitarist, songwriter, studio musician, born August 25, 1962)
Bernardo Rezende (beach volleyball player, coach, volleyball player, born August 25, 1950)
Simon McBurney (actor, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, theatrical director, born August 25, 1957)
Justin Upton (baseball player, born August 25, 1987)
Amy Macdonald (entertainer, guitarist, musician, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 25, 1987)
Wayne Shorter (composer, jazz musician, saxophonist, born August 25, 1933)
Marvin Harrison (American football player, born August 25, 1972)
Clive Myrie (journalist, television presenter, born August 25, 1964)
Taslima Nasrin (physician, secularist, women's rights activist, writer, born August 25, 1962)
Conrad Black (autobiographer, biographer, businessperson, historian, politician, publisher, born August 25, 1944)
Ivan Serov (intelligence officer, military personnel, politician, born August 25, 1905)
Mehran Ghafourian (actor, film director, presenter, screenwriter, television actor, born August 25, 1974)
Evan Jonigkeit (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 25, 1983)
Cameron Mathison (actor, engineer, film actor, model, television actor, born August 25, 1969)
Jirō Tamiya (actor, singer, born August 25, 1935)
Ovidie (actor, documentarian, documentary filmmaker, journalist, pornographic actor, pornographic film director, screenwriter, television producer, writer, born August 25, 1980)
Jonathan Togo (actor, film actor, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1977)
Saburō Sakai (aircraft pilot, military personnel, writer, born August 25, 1916)
Luke Ayling (association football player, born August 25, 1991)
Matthias Opdenhövel (journalist, television presenter, born August 25, 1970)
Anthony Heald (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1944)
Nina Conti (comedian, stand-up comedian, ventriloquist, born August 25, 1973)
Crash Holly (professional wrestler, born August 25, 1971)
Reza Yazdani (amateur wrestler, born August 25, 1984)
Chloe Pirrie (actor, born August 25, 1987)
Martin Amis (memoirist, novelist, science fiction writer, screenwriter, short story writer, university teacher, writer, born August 25, 1949)
Henri Toivonen (motorcycle rider, race car driver, racing automobile driver, born August 25, 1956)
Sandra Maischberger (film producer, journalist, television presenter, television producer, writer, born August 25, 1966)
Althea Gibson (autobiographer, golfer, tennis coach, tennis player, born August 25, 1927)
Ben Diskin (actor, voice actor, born August 25, 1982)
Hayko (composer, musician, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 25, 1973)
Masumi Asano (author, lyricist, novelist, seiyū, singer, writer, born August 25, 1977)
Eric Millegan (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1974)
Jeff Tweedy (guitarist, musician, poet, singer, singer-songwriter, television actor, born August 25, 1967)
Jerome K. Jerome (actor, autobiographer, humorist, journalist, novelist, playwright, prosaist, writer, born August 25, 1859)
Pat Martino (autobiographer, composer, guitarist, jazz guitarist, jazz musician, writer, born August 25, 1944)
Rachel Shelley (actor, film actor, born August 25, 1969)
Allan Edwall (actor, composer, film actor, film director, playwright, screenwriter, singer, writer, born August 25, 1924)
Iconiq (actor, singer, born August 25, 1984)
Diego Corrales (boxer, born August 25, 1977)
Akbar Abdi (actor, television actor, born August 25, 1960)
Peter Gilmore (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 25, 1931)
Michael Rennie (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1909)
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (military personnel, politician, born August 25, 1803)
Norbert Grupe (actor, boxer, film actor, professional wrestler, television actor, born August 25, 1940)
Luka Šulić (academic musician, cellist, born August 25, 1987)
Geoff Downes (keyboardist, musician, record producer, songwriter, born August 25, 1952)
Steve Hilton (politician, born August 25, 1969)
Christer Björkman (singer, television presenter, born August 25, 1957)
Monty Hall (actor, film actor, game show host, journalist, singer, sports commentator, television presenter, television producer, born August 25, 1921)
David Mayer de Rothschild (comics artist, environmentalist, born August 25, 1978)
Mohamed Azmin Ali (politician, born August 25, 1964)
Max Muncy (baseball player, born August 25, 1990)
Daisy Shah (actor, film actor, born August 25, 1984)
Douglas Brunt (entrepreneur, novelist, writer, born August 25, 1971)
Lisa Harrow (actor, film actor, stage actor, born August 25, 1943)
Chris Hart (singer, born August 25, 1984)
Kanika Dhillon (author, screenwriter, born August 25, 1984)
Facundo Coonnte (beach volleyball player, volleyball player, born August 25, 1989)
Kurban Berdyev (association football manager, association football player, born August 25, 1952)
Maria Giovanna Elmi (actor, journalist, singer, television presenter, born August 25, 1940)
Tracy-Ann Oberman (actor, film actor, born August 25, 1966)
Hussain Al Jassmi (composer, singer, born August 25, 1979)
David Canary (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1938)
Tony Ramos (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 25, 1948)
Spider One (singer, born August 25, 1968)
Stacey Farber (actor, born August 25, 1987)
Eduard Fernández (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 25, 1964)
Forouzan (actor, film producer, born August 25, 1937)
Chris Dickerson (bodybuilder, fashion model, born August 25, 1939)
Sönke Wortmann (actor, association football player, film director, film producer, screenwriter, born August 25, 1959)
Raz Degan (actor, film actor, film director, model, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1968)
Abraham Mateo (YouTuber, actor, record producer, recording artist, singer, songwriter, television actor, born August 25, 1998)
Michael Zorc (association football player, born August 25, 1962)
Jasim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (politician, born August 25, 1978)
Don DeFore (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 25, 1913)
Branislav Lečić (actor, politician, television actor, born August 25, 1955)

25th of August 2004 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 25, 2004

In Chicago, Anyway, You Surely Can Fight City Hall (and Vice Versa)

Date: 26 August 2004

By Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer

Mayor Richard M Daley of Chicago has accused Chicago Tribune of withholding bad news about Wrigley Field because its corporate parent, Tribune Co, owns field and Chicago Cubs, who play there; city officials recently suggested that Wrigley might be so unsafe that games there would have to be canceled; inspectors later pronounced it sound; Daley set off latest round of sniping after hearing news last month of falling concrete at Wrigley; Daily has never denied that he is a White Sox fan; photos (M)

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World Briefing | Asia: Nepal: Rebels Lift Blockade

Date: 25 August 2004

By Amy Waldman (NYT)

Amy NYT

Maoist rebels in Nepal fax statement to news agencies declaring they will lift week-long blockade of capital Katmandu; hold they will reinstate restrictions unless rebels held by government are released; withdrew from peace talks in August 2003 (S)

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Hamm Set to Put Ordeal In the Past

Date: 25 August 2004

By Juliet Macur

Juliet Macur

US gymnast Paul Hamm discusses difficulty of dealing with media after winning all-around men's gold medal; says he is empathetic toward South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, who won bronze instead of gold as result of scoring error; photo (M)

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Threat of Jailing Is Lifted With Reporter's Testimony

Date: 25 August 2004

By Jacques Steinberg

Jacques Steinberg

Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper submits to deposition by special prosecutor Patrick J Fitzgerald, who is investigating disclosure of identity of covert CIA officer Valeria Plame to Robert Novak and other journalists; Cooper is questioned about his contacts with I Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice Pres Dick Cheney, after Libby waives confidentiality agreement with Cooper; Federal Judge Thomas F Hogan lifts contempt order against Cooper; photo (M)

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If These Walls Could Publish...; CUNY Puts Journalism Program in Fabled Home of Trib

Date: 25 August 2004

By David W. Dunlap

David Dunlap

City University of New York will open journalism school in 2006 in former headquarters of New York Herald Tribune; remembrances of Tribune, which folded 38 years ago, in its heyday; photos (M)

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BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY BOUGHT STAKE IN SERVICEMASTER

Date: 26 August 2004

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Berkshire Hathaway Inc discloses it has bought 3.73 million shares of Servicemaster Co (S)

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CASCADES PURCHASES REMAINING HALF OF DOPACO

Date: 25 August 2004

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Cascades Inc, Canadian maker of paper packaging, acquires half of Dopaco Inc it does not own for $90 million to $100 million to add plants in Asia (S)

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CONSOL ENERGY EXPECTS LOSS IN THIRD QUARTER

Date: 26 August 2004

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Coal producer Consol Energy Inc will have net loss of 30 to 40 cents per share in third quarter because of lower production and higher costs; equipment problems at mines and labor shortages in eastern Kentucky contributed to production drop (S)

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KERR-MCGEE RAISES FORECAST FOR OIL PRODUCTION

Date: 26 August 2004

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Kerr-McGee Corp raises its forecast for oil output in third quarter because field in Gulf of Mexico is exceeding expectations; expects oil production to average 156,000 to 170,000 per day, beating earlier forecast of 142,000 to 155,000 (S)

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