This page gathers what happened on this date across different years, in Kuwait first and then in the world. It grows every year: anything added later about 25 August finds its place here rather than on a new page.
In Kuwait
1990 — The Security Council authorises stopping ships to enforce the embargo on Iraq
Three weeks after the invasion, the UN Security Council issued resolution 665. It authorised states with naval forces in the area to halt inbound and outbound shipping, inspect cargoes and verify destinations, to stop Iraq working around the economic embargo imposed on it.
The resolution passed at meeting 2938 by thirteen votes, with not a single vote against, and Cuba and Yemen abstaining. The text in the Security Council records.
In the world
1958 — The world’s first instant noodles go on sale
Japan’s Nissin put Chicken Ramen on the market, the first instant noodles anywhere, invented by the company’s founder Momofuku Ando. The company itself dates the launch to this day and describes it as a shift in food culture. The company’s history.
1989 — Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune
At 03:56 GMT, Voyager 2 passed about 4,800 kilometres above Neptune’s cloud tops, the closest of its four flybys. By coincidence, the same date on the calendar would carry news of its sister craft twenty-three years later. The mission page at NASA.
1991 — A Finnish student announces an operating system he calls just a hobby
Linus Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup describing a free operating system he was working on, calling it just a hobby and saying it would not be big and professional. The kernel he announced that day became Linux, and it now runs most of the internet’s servers and every Android phone. The original announcement.
2012 — Voyager 1 becomes the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere
Thirty-five years after launch, Voyager 1 crossed the boundary of the heliosphere and entered interstellar space. NASA puts the crossing on this exact day, when the craft began measuring the interstellar environment directly. The mission page at NASA.
How this page is built
Every line here comes with its source, and most sources are the body the event belongs to: Security Council records, NASA, the Japanese company. Anything we cannot source is not published, however widely it is repeated.
An example from this date: several sources put Voyager 2’s closest approach to Saturn on 25 August 1981, while NASA gives 26 August at 01:21. So we left it out.
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