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This day in history: 25 July

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Key facts

438 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 25 July.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2019: National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Anne (Eastern Christianity)

Christian feast day: Carmen Salles y Barangueras

Christian feast day: Christopher (Western Christianity)

Christian feast day: Cucuphas

Christian feast day: Glodesind

Christian feast day: James the Great (Western Christianity)

Christian feast day: John I Agnus

Christian feast day: Julian of Le Mans (translation)

Christian feast day: July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Magnerich of Trier

Christian feast day: Olympias the Deaconess

Christian feast day: Rodolfo Acquaviva

Events

2019National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.

2018As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.

2010WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

2007Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.

2001Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, is assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.

2000Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.

1996In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.

1995A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.

1994Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.

1993Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.

1993The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.

1984Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.

1983Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.

1979In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.

1978Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.

1978Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.

1976Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.

1973Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.

1971The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.

1969Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.

1965Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

1961Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.

1958The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.

1957The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.

1956Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

1946The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.

1944World War II: Operation Spring near Caen is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.

1943World War II: 136 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of the German 1st Mountain Division in the village of Mousiotitsa, Greece.

1943World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.

1942The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.

1940General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.

1934The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.

1925Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

1917Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).

1915RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.

1915The British capture Nasiriyah from the Ottomans during the Mesopotamian campaign.

1909Begin of the Tragic Week in Barcelona in response to troop mobilisations for the Rif War.

1909Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.

1908Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.

1898Spanish–American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.

Born on this day

2002Adam Hložek, Czech footballer

2002Alperen Şengün, Turkish basketball player

2002Equi Fernández, Argentine footballer

2001Bryce Young, American football player

2000Meg Donnelly, American actress

2000Shakira Austin, American basketball player

2000Zhang Hao, Chinese singer

1997Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player

1996Jaafar Jackson, American actor and singer

1995Alvin Kamara, American football player

1995Maria Sakkari, Greek tennis player

1994Andrei Vasilevskiy, Russian ice hockey player

1994Mathew Dumba, Canadian ice hockey player

1994Natalija Stevanović, Serbian tennis player

1992Jordan Martinook, Canadian ice hockey player

1992Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (died 2016)

1991Hasan Piker, American Twitch streamer

1991Toni Duggan, English footballer

1990Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer

1989Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player

1988Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer

1988John Goossens, Dutch footballer

1988Paulinho, Brazilian footballer

1988Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer and actress

1988Stacey Kemp, English skater

1988Tom Hiariej, Dutch footballer

1987Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer

1987Fernando, Brazilian footballer

1987Jax Jones, English DJ, singer and songwriter

1987Mitchell Burgzorg, Dutch footballer and rapper

1987Richard Bachman, American ice hockey player

1986Abraham Gneki Guié, Ivorian footballer

1986Hulk, Brazilian footballer

1985Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer

1985James Lafferty, American actor and athlete

1985Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver

1985Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model

1984Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player

1984Robert Clardy, American football coach

1984Zawe Ashton, British actress

Died on this day

2024Martin Indyk, American diplomat (born 1951)

2024Shafin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (born 1961)

2022David Trimble, Northern Irish statesman and politician (born 1944)

2022Paul Sorvino, American actor (born 1939)

2020Lou Henson, American college basketball coach (born 1932)

2020Peter Green, English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac (born 1946)

2020Regis Philbin, American actor and television host (born 1931)

2019Beji Caid Essebsi, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1926)

2018Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman (born 1952)

2017Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)

2016Tim LaHaye, American Christian minister and author (born 1926)

2016Tom Peterson, American television personality (born 1930)

2015Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (born 1946)

2015Jacques Andreani, French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (born 1929)

2015R. S. Gavai, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (born 1929)

2014Bel Kaufman, German-American author and academic (born 1911)

2014Richard Larter, Australian painter and illustrator (born 1929)

2013Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (born 1924)

2013Walter De Maria, American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (born 1935)

2013William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (born 1922)

2012Barry Langford, English director and producer (born 1926)

2012B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (born 1934)

2012Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (born 1947)

2012Greg Mohns, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1950)

2011Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

2009Harry Patch, English soldier (born 1898)

2009Stanley Middleton, English author (born 1919)

2009Vernon Forrest, American boxer (born 1971)

2009Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director (born 1958)

2008Jeff Fehring, Australian footballer (born 1955)

Quote of the day

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

Marcus Aurelius

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