July 25
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July 25 is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining after July 25 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 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.
- 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.
[change] Births
- 1109 – King Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
- 1562 – Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese daimyo and samurai (d. 1611)
- 1775 – Anna Harrison, shortest-serving First Lady of the United States (d. 1864)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1920 – Rosalind Franklin, British scientist (d. 1958)
- 1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
- 1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
- 1937 – Colin Renfrew, archeology professor
- 1941 – Marco Lucioni, Italian painter
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1985 – Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian racing driver
- 1985 – James Lafferty, American actor
- 1986 – Barbara Meier, German model
- 1987 – Michael Welch, American actor
- 1988 – Anthony Stokes, Northern Irish footballer
- 1988 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
[change] Deaths
- 306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
- 1492 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
- 1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
- 1843 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
- 1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
- 1938 – Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1853)
- 1945 – Malin Craig, American general (b. 1875)
- 1969 – Otto Dix, German artist (b. 1891)
- 1973 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
- 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
- 1995 – Charlie Rich, American singer and musician (b. 1932)
- 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 film director and producer (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Jeret Peterson, American skier (b. 1981)
