American anti-apartheid activist Amy Elizabeth Biehl stabbed to death in Guguletu
The world's tallest tree, Hyperion, towers over even famous landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and Big Ben. Measuring an impressive 115.55 m (379.1 ft), this giant sequoia in California's Redwood National Park, is as tall as a 35-story building. Hyperion is estimated to be between 700 and 800 years old and contains 530 m³ (18 600 cu ft) of wood.
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On this day in history, August 25
325 First Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed, establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Roman Emperor Constantine, egged on by his mother, had ordered the council define the core doctrines of Christianity, especially the Trinity and Jesus Christ’s full divinity, in response to heresies.
1609 Galileo Galilei, the ‘father of modern astronomy’ and the ‘father of modern physics’, demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1914 The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is destroyed by the German army. Hundreds of thousands of volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
1919 The first scheduled passenger service by plane – between Paris and London – begins.
1939 Britain and Poland form an alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland against any threats from Nazi Germany.
1940 The Royal Air Force bombs Berlin in retaliation for a German raid on London.
1945 Chinese Communist Party members kill US intelligence officer John Birch – he is the Cold War’s first of millions of victims, mainly through proxy wars that were fought by client states of the US and the Soviet Union.
1958 Inventor Momofuku Ando first markets packets of instant noodles, in Japan.
1993 American student Amy Elizabeth Biehl, 26, is dragged from her car by a mob in Guguletu, Cape Town, and stabbed to death.
1998 A bomb explodes in the Planet Hollywood restaurant at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront killing two people and injuring 26.
2004 Mark Thatcher, ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher’s son, is arrested at his Cape Town home over a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
2006 Hyperion, the world’s tallest living tree, a 700 to 800-year-old Redwood standing 115.55m tall, is discovered in Redwood National and State Parks, California.
2019 US astronaut Anne McClain becomes the first person to be investigated for a crime alleged to have been committed in space after she was accused of illegally accessing a bank account while orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station. She was found to have not done anything wrong.
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