On this day: Singer Aaliyah dies in Bahamas plane crash in 2001

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug. 25: 1936 – Sixteen opponents of Soviet leader Josef Stalin were executed after a show trial. 1944 – Paris was liberated when the local German commander surrendered to the allies. 1978 – The Turin Shroud, venerated by many as the burial cloth of […]

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