Notable Historical Events on July 25th
July 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
306 |
Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. |
864 |
The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. |
1139 |
Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King |
1261 |
Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire. |
1360 |
Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia |
1511 |
Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerqu first assault the properous trading city of Malacca, Malay Penninsula |
1519 |
San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba |
1521 |
About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent |
1536 |
Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali. |
1538 |
The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil. |
1547 |
Henry II of France is crowned. |
1564 |
Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor |
1567 |
Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. |
1570 |
Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army |
1585 |
Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics |
1593 |
France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic faith |
1603 |
James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of English uniting kingdoms of England and Scotland |
1652 |
Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church |
1670 |
Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna |
1670 |
Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth |
1689 |
France declares war on England |
1693 |
Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México. |
1722 |
The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border. |
1729 |
North Carolina becomes a royal colony |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides in the last Jacobite Rebellion |
1758 |
Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. |
1759 |
British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) |
1775 |
Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta |
1792 |
Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion" |
1792 |
The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal Family harmed. |
1795 |
The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. |
1797 |
Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain). |
1799 |
French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir |
1814 |
Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British |
1814 |
George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive |
1822 |
General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st Emperor of Mexico |
1824 |
Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua. |
1832 |
1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies |
1835 |
Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine |
1837 |
The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. |
1848 |
1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian |
1850 |
Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River) |
1853 |
Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. |
1854 |
Walter Hunt is awarded the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar |
1860 |
1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales) |
1861 |
Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery |
1861 |
Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops |
1863 |
Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia |
1866 |
25th US Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wisconsin takes office |
1866 |
David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy |
1866 |
Ulysses S. Grant named 1st general of Army |
1868 |
US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho) |
1871 |
Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa |
1897 |
Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. |
1898 |
1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay |
1900 |
Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match |
1901 |
Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War |
1902 |
james j jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
1903 |
Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes |
1907 |
Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan. |
1908 |
Ajinomoto is founded. 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 |
France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel |
1912 |
Comoros proclaimed a French colonies |
1913 |
Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game |
1913 |
Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies |
1913 |
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
1914 |
Germany Socialist-Democrat Party declares: "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" in response to German support of Austria-Hungary |
1914 |
Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66: he made 69 runs |
1914 |
Serbia meets the deadlines of Austria-Hungary's ultimatum and gives a conciliatory reply, though Serbia is mobilizing |
1916 |
Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks |
1917 |
Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). |
1918 |
Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif |
1918 |
Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed) |
1920 |
Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win |
1922 |
AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN) |
1923 |
German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1 |
1930 |
Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland |
1933 |
1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington |
1934 |
Failed nazi coup in Austria |
1936 |
115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx |
1938 |
Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany |
1938 |
Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) |
1939 |
5th & last Dutch government of Colijn, forms |
1939 |
NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win |
1940 |
John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi River |
1941 |
FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan |
1941 |
Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) |
1942 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
1942 |
German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja |
1943 |
1st warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer |
1943 |
Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on authority King Victor Emmanuel II |
1943 |
Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl |
1943 |
RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam |
1944 |
-26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam |
1944 |
1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) |
1944 |
Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines) |
1944 |
US troop march into Guam |
1944 |
USAAF kills 136 and wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo |
1944 |
World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed. |
1946 |
US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion) |
1946 |
At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. |
1947 |
US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Department of Defense |
1947 |
US Department of Army created |
1949 |
St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1 |
1952 |
Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day) |
1953 |
NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens |
1954 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open |
1956 |
38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston |
1956 |
Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm |
1956 |
Jordan attacks UN Palestine force |
1957 |
Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic |
1957 |
Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick for England v WI at Headingley |
1957 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. |
1959 |
SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours. |
1960 |
Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels |
1961 |
Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader |
1961 |
In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. |
1963 |
Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations |
1963 |
US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty |
1964 |
"Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances |
1964 |
Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks |
1964 |
Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford |
1964 |
Race riot in Rochester NY |
1965 |
Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electric guitar at Newport Folk Festival |
1965 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament |
1966 |
Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone |
1966 |
Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." |
1966 |
Mao Zedong swims Yangtse River |
1966 |
Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" |
1966 |
Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
1967 |
Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) |
1968 |
Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth |
1969 |
1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY) |
1969 |
70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival |
1969 |
Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne |
1970 |
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 |
1971 |
Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
1972 |
43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad |
1972 |
All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds) |
1972 |
US health officials concede African American were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment |
1973 |
George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album |
1973 |
USSR launches Mars 5 |
1975 |
"A Chorus Line", longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres |
1976 |
Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01) |
1976 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1978 |
Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar |
1978 |
Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager |
1978 |
Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games |
1978 |
John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image |
1978 |
The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs. |
1978 |
Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby is born at Oldham General Hospital England |
1979 |
109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) |
1980 |
Train crash at Winsum, 9 die |
1980 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1981 |
Voyager 2 encounters Saturn |
1981 |
Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby test between New Zealand's All Blacks and South Africa's Springboks by invading the pitch during the game. |
1982 |
20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0) |
1982 |
37th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson |
1982 |
France performs nuclear Test |
1983 |
1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio |
1983 |
Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion |
1984 |
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space |
1985 |
Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS |
1985 |
Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32) |
1985 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1985 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
Uganda suspends constitution following coup |
1986 |
Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India |
1987 |
Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt |
1987 |
USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite |
1988 |
Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA |
1988 |
Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France |
1989 |
Brandi Sherwood of Idaho crowned 7th Miss Teen USA |
1990 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver |
1990 |
KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle |
1990 |
Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) |
1990 |
Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game |
1990 |
US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute |
1990 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1991 |
Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles) |
1991 |
Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium |
1991 |
Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use |
1992 |
25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain |
1992 |
Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd |
1993 |
31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
1993 |
48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten |
1993 |
Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon |
1993 |
Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1993 |
The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army |
1994 |
Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC) |
1995 |
A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. |
1996 |
Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States |
1997 |
Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby |
1997 |
Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian |
1997 |
Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas |
1997 |
QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs |
1997 |
Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling |
1997 |
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC |
1997 |
K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office. |
1997 |
Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos |
1999 |
54th US Women's Open Golf Championship |
2000 |
Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground. |
2001 |
Faced with declining oil prices, OPEC ministers agree to cut crude oil production quotas by about 4%, or 1 million barrels per day |
2007 |
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president |
2012 |
The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th) |
2012 |
Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia |
2012 |
Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones |
2012 |
The UK economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.2% in GDP in the first quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.3% in the last quarter of 2011 |
2012 |
The double dip recession in the UK economy continues with a fall of 0.7% in GDP in the second quarter of 2012 |
2016 |
Paul Broadhurst Wins Senior British Open at Carnoustie |
2016 |
Syrian man dies carrying bomb in Germany; 12 injured |
2016 |
Tour de France 2016: Chris Froome completes third race victory |
2018 |
Trump to provide $12 billion in aid to farmers to ease trade pain |
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