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

World historyon this day On this day: Singer Aaliyah dies in Bahamas plane crash in 2001 File Aaliyah Dana Haughton 02 Relevant News London Zoo’s annual weigh-in 2026 25 August 2026 On this day: Singer Aaliyah dies in Bahamas plane crash in 2001 25 August 2026 Cyprus health ministry proposes mandatory negligence insurance for all doctors 25 August 2026 newsroom 25 August 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber 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 Christ, went on public display for the first time in 45 years. 1997 – Egon Krenz, East Germany’s last hardline Communist leader, was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for the deaths of citizens killed while fleeing over the Berlin Wall. 2000 – Hitachi releases world’s first video equipment to use Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) technology. 2001 – American singer Aaliyah dies along with eight others when passenger plane bursts into flames after taking off in the Bahamas. 2003 – Twin car bombs in India’s financial capital Bombay killed 51 people and injured at least 150. 2004 – South African police arrested Mark Thatcher, the son of Margaret Thatcher, on suspicion of involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. Thatcher later pleaded guilty and avoided jail in a deal with prosecutors. 2006 – Former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko sentenced to nine years in prison and fined $10 million in a U.S. court after being convicted in 2004 of extortion and money laundering. 2007 – Former French prime minister Raymond Barre, an economist who helped set Europe on its road to a single currency, died aged 83. 2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas. (Reuters) Subscribe to our Newsletter Latest News London Zoo’s annual weigh-in 2026 Cyprus health ministry proposes mandatory negligence insurance for all doctors Cyprus inflation holds at 4% as eurozone expectations ease Cyprus’s only university rights observatory marks second year with five new studies Tremithousa parents protest today over plan to remove school’s prefab classroom Antonio Costa to visit Cyprus 4 September as EU budget tops agenda Cyprus extends lifeguard hours, reviews short-term contracts after drownings Follow en.philenews on Google News and be the first to know all the news about Cyprus and the world.