August 25 Events
1981 – Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
1991 – Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first to swim the English channel, in 22 hours
2012 – Voula Papachristou was expelled from the 2012 London Olympics for comments that she posted on Twitter