July 25: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining.

Events

• 306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
• 1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.
• 1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado found the City of Santiago de Cali
• 1547 - Henry II (France) crowned
• 1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
• 1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
• 1722 - Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border.
• 1758 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
• 1759 - French and Indian War: In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
• 1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain).
• 1799 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
• 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near Niagara for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
• 1853 - Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
• 1866 - The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.
• 1868 - Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
• 1869 - The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869)
• 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• 1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
• 1898 - The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at Guánica Bay.
• 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
• 1908 - Ajinomoto is born. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG) and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• 1909 - Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover in 37 minutes).
• 1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
• 1920 - Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.
• 1934 - Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
• 1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
• 1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
• 1946 - Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean when the United States detonates the "Baker Day" device.
• 1946 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
• 1952 - The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution approved by the U.S. Congress
• 1956 - 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51.
• 1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
• 1965 - Newport Folk Festival: Bob Dylan goes electric.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: US 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 was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
• 1973 - Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
• 1976 - The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach
• 1977 - A supposed thunderbird is reported attacking a boy named Marlon Lowe.
• 1978 - The first so-called test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born.
• 1984 - Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
• 1989 - Rock/Hip-hop trio The Beastie Boys release the classic Paul's Boutique.
• 1990 - Comedian Roseanne Barr grabs her crotch and spits on the ground when performing the U.S. national anthem at a San Diego Padres game.
• 1994 - Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
• 1997 - K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalits caste to hold this office.
• 1998 - The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service.
• 1999 - Lance Armstrong wins first Tour de France.
• 2000 - An Air France Concorde supersonic passenger jet crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
• 2004 - Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th consecutive Tour de France.

• 1109 - King Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
• 1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
• 1435 - Sir Rodrin, French philosopher (d. (1474])
• 1404 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
• 1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
• 1523 - James Werseto, English Musican (d. 1572)
• 1562 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (d. 1611)
• 1653 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
• 1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)hvb
• 1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist, plant collector, explorer (d. 1834)
• 1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
• 1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
• 1848 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
• 1867 - Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
• 1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
• 1883 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
• 1884 - Davidson Black, Canadian anthropologist (d. 1934)
• 1886 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
• 1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1902 - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
• 1905 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 1906 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
• 1907 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (d. 1982)
• 1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
• 1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
• 1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress
• 1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
• 1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
• 1930 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
• 1935 - Barbara Harris, American actress
• 1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
• 1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
• 1954 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
• 1955 - Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
• 1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
• 1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
• 1965 - Illeana Douglas, American actress
• 1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
• 1967 - Chuck Paugh, American record company owner
• 1973 - Dani Filth, English singer (Cradle of Filth)
• 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
• 1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor
• 1987 - Michael Welch, American actor

• 306 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
• 1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
• 1492 - Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
• 1616 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
• 1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
• 1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
• 1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
• 1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
• 1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
• 1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
• 1794 - André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
• 1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
• 1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
• 1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
• 1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
• 1853 - Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
• 1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
• 1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
• 1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
• 1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
• 1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
• 1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877
• 1971 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
• 1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
• 1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
• 1988 - Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
• 1996 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
• 1997 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
• 2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
• 2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
• 2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)

• Roman festivals - Furinalia
• Galiza - National Day (Dia da Patria Galega).
• Saint James the Great - patron saint of Spain.
• Costa Rica - Anniversary of the Annexation of Guanacaste Province
• Cuba - Eve of Revolution Day
• Puerto Rico - Constitution Day (1952)
• Tunisia - Republic Day (1957)
• Virgin Islands - Hurricane Supplication Day
• Inca - festival in honor of Ilyap'a
• Ebernoe Horn Fair, Sussex, England

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