July 25
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July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as his Roman co-ruler.
- 1536 – Sebastian de Belalcazar founds the city of Santiago de Cali in Colombia in his search for El Dorado.
- 1538 – The city of Guayaquil in present-day Ecuador is founded.
- 1554 – Mary I of England marries Philip II of Spain.
- 1567 – Caracas is founded.
- 1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned joint king of Scotland and England.
- 1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States Territory.
- 1893 – The Corinth Canal in Greece is used for the first time.
- 1909 – Louis Bleriot flies across the English Channel.
- 1925 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1935 – A flooding disaster in China kills around 200,000 people.
- 1943 – Benito Mussolini is removed from office by his own Italian Grand Council. He is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1956 – Near Nantucket Island, Italian Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51 people.
- 1957 – Tunisia becomes a Republic, with Habib Bourguiba as President.
- 1969 – An earthquake in China kills around 3,000 people.
- 1978 – Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, England.
- 1984 – Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to go on a space walk.
- 1992 – The Summer Olympics in Barcelona begin.
- 1994 – Israel and Jordan end their state of war, which had existed since 1948.
- 1997 – K. R. Narayanan becomes President of India.
- 2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a concorde supersonic jet, crashes shortly after take-off near Paris, killing all 109 people on board, and 4 on the ground.
- 2002 – Abdul Kalam becomes President of India.
- 2007 – Pratibha Patil becomes the first female President of India.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks releases 90,000 internal reports on the US involvement in the War in Afghanistan.
- 2012 – Pranab Mukherjee becomes President of India.
Births [change]
- 975 – Thietmar of Merseburg, bishop, historian and writer (d. 1018)
- 1016 – Casimir I the Restorer, Duke of Poland (d. 1058)
- 1109 – King Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
- 1336 – Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
- 1404 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- 1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- 1562 – Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese daimyo and samurai (d. 1611)
- 1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1756)
- 1704 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, theologian (d. 1792)
- 1775 – Anna Harrison, shortest-serving First Lady of the United States (d. 1864)
- 1797 – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
- 1799 – David Douglas, botanist, plant collector, explorer (d. 1834)
- 1844 – Thomas Eakins, artist (d. 1916)
- 1848 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
- 1848 – Ottokar Kernstock, poet (d. 1928)
- 1860 – Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
- 1867 – Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
- 1870 – Maxfield Parrish, illustrator (d. 1966)
- 1876 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (d. 1965)
- 1883 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
- 1884 – Davidson Black, anthropologist (d. 1934)
- 1886 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
- 1894 – Walter Brennan, Academy Award-winning actor (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1918)
- 1902 – Eric Hoffer, philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1994)
- 1906 – Johnny Hodges, saxophonist (d. 1970)
- 1907 – Karl Höller, composer (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
- 1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., older brother of John F. Kennedy (d. 1944)
- 1920 – Rosalind Franklin, British scientist (d. 1958)
- 1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
- 1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
- 1932 – Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut
- 1937 – Colin Renfrew, archeology professor
- 1941 – Marco Lucioni, Italian painter
- 1941 – Raul Ruiz, Chilean movie director (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Emmett Till, American teenager, murder victim (d. 1955)
- 1941 – Nate Thurmond, American basketball player
- 1943 – Erika Steinbach, German politician
- 1946 – Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
- 1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
- 1953 – Robert Zoellick, World Bank President
- 1954 – Juergen Trittin, German politician
- 1954 – Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
- 1955 – Iman Abdulmajid, Somali-born model
- 1958 – Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
- 1960 – Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
- 1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- 1967 – Chuck Paugh, American record company owner
- 1973 – Dani Davey, American singer
- 1973 – Kevin Phillips, English footballer
- 1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
- 1977 – Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
- 1978 – Louise Brown, first test tube baby
- 1978 – Gerard Warren, American football player
- 1979 – Amy Adams, American singer, American Idol 3 contestant
- 1980 – Cha Du-Ri, South Korean footballer
- 1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1985 – Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian racing driver
- 1985 – James Lafferty, American actor
- 1985 – Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer
- 1986 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Barbara Meier, German model
- 1987 – Michael Welch, American actor
- 1988 – Anthony Stokes, Northern Irish footballer
- 1988 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
Deaths [change]
- 306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
- 1409 – King Martin I of Sicily (b. 1374)
- 1471 – Thomas a Kempis, choir master and mystic (b. 1380)
- 1492 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
- 1564 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)
- 1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German theologian, writer and philanthropist (b. 1724)
- 1831 – Maria Agati Szymanowska, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1789)
- 1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
- 1843 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
- 1846 – Louis Bonaparte, King of the Netherlands (b. 1778)
- 1887 – Henry Mayhew, English writer and journalist (b. 1812)
- 1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
- 1938 – Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1853)
- 1945 – Malin Craig, American general (b. 1875)
- 1945 – Kurt Gerstein, German military officer (b. 1905)
- 1969 – Otto Dix, German artist (b. 1891)
- 1973 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
- 1976 – John C. Slater, American physicist and chemist (b. 1900)
- 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1984 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
- 1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American movie director (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
- 1991 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)
- 1995 – Charlie Rich, American singer and musician (b. 1932)
- 2000 – Rudi Fassnacht, German football manager (b. 1934)
- 2002 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science (b. 1960)
- 2009 – Harry Patch, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1898)
- 2011 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot movie director and producer (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Jeret Peterson, American skier (b. 1981)
