More Events On This Day (25/8/14) 2009: Sen. Ted KennedyAmerican politician Ted Kennedy, who was a prominent figure in the Democratic Party and the last surviving brother of Pres. John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. 1945: John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and U.S. Army intelligence officer, was killed by Chinese communists, which later inspired the foundation of the John Birch Society—a private organization that considered Birch to be the first hero of the Cold War. 1919: George C. Wallace.George C. Wallace—a four-time governor of Alabama (1962–66, 1970–78, 1982–86) who led the American South in a fight, eventually abandoned, against federal orders to end racial segregation—was born in Clio, Alabama. 1900: Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.German Classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture Friedrich Nietzsche died. 1530: Ivan IV, icon, late 16th century; in the National Museum, Copenhagen.Ivan IV (the Terrible), grand prince of Moscow and first tsar of Russia, was born. 325: Constantine I, colossal marble head, c. 325 ceThe Council of Nicaea—the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, called by the emperor Constantine I—brought to an end the controversy of Arianism, concluding that God the Father was of equal status with God the Son.
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