What happened on July 25? There are more than 306 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 25
July 25 is the 207th day of the year 2024. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 30th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Woodworth, North Dakota 58496 sunrise will occur at 06:07 AM and sunset will occur at 09:20 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Leo. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 188 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For July 25
- 285Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
- 306Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 315The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
- 864The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
- 1139Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.
- 1261The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1536Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1538The 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.
- 1547Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1554Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral
- 1567Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1593Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1603James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1609The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- 1693Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- 1722Dummer’s War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
- 1755British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
- 1758Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1759French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
- 1783American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
- 1788Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1792The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1795The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1797Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- 1799At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 1814War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
- 1824Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1837The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1853Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
- 1861American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
- 1866The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 1868Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1869The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1893The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- 1894The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1898After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
- 1908Ajinomoto 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.
- 1909Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
- 1915RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- 1917Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1920France captures Damascus.
- 1920Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1925Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1934The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1940General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1942Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 1943World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1944World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1946At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- 1946Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
- 1952The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current international law.
- 195645 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.
- 1957The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- 1958The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- 1959SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
- 1961In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1965Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 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.
- 1973Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
- 1976Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- 1978Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
- 1978The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs.
- 1979Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- 1983Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1984Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1993Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
- 1993The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1994Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1995A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- 1996In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 2000Air 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.
- 2007Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
- 2010Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Who Were Born On July 25?
- 1016Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
- 1109Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
- 1336Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
- 1404Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- 1421Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- 1562Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
- 1653Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728)
- 1658Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
- 1683Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1756)
- 1750Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
- 1753Santiago de Liniers, viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
- 1797Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
- 1799David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
- 1839Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
- 1844Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
- 1848Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
- 1860Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
- 1867Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
- 1867Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
- 1870Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
- 1882George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
- 1883Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
- 1886Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
- 1894Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
- 1894Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1895Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
- 1896Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1901Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1901Ruth Krauss, American author
- 1902Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1905Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
- 1905Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
- 1907Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
- 1908Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
- 1908Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1908Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
- 1914Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994)
- 1916Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
- 1917Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1918Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
- 1920Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
- 1920Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
- 1921Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
- 1923Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1923Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
- 1924Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
- 1924Scotch Taylor, Former South African cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1925Benny Benjamin, Motown session drummer (d. 1969)
- 1925Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1926Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
- 1927Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
- 1927Midge Decter, American journalist and author
- 1927Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
- 1928Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor
- 1928Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- 1928Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
- 1928Nils Taube, Estonian-born British fund manager (d. 2008)
- 1929Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
- 1929Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
- 1930Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
- 1930Annie Ross, British jazz singer
- 1930Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
- 1930Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
- 1934Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
- 1934Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978)
- 1935Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant
- 1935Barbara Harris, American actress
- 1935John Robinson, American football coach
- 1935Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1935Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
- 1936Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
- 1936Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
- 1937Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
- 1941Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
- 1941Manny Charlton, rock guitarist
- 1941Nate Thurmond, American basketball player
- 1941Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
- 1942Bruce Woodley, Australian musician (The Seekers)
- 1943Erika Steinbach, German politician
- 1943Jim McCarty, English musician (The Yardbirds)
- 1945Donna Theodore, Broadway and television singer
- 1946John Gibson, American media host
- 1946José Areas, Nicaraguan percussionist
- 1946Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer (I Threes)
- 1948Steve Goodman, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1984)
- 1950Mark Clarke (musician), British musician, bass player and singer
- 1951Jack Thompson, American activist and former lawyer
- 1951Verdine White, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- 1952Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect.
- 1953Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank
- 1954Jochem Ziegert, German footballer
- 1954Ken Greer, pedal steel guitarist (Red Rider)
- 1954Lynne Frederick, British Actress (d. 1994)
- 1954Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
- 1955Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
- 1955Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
- 1955Randall Bewley, American guitarist
- 1955Tom McCamus, Canadian actor
- 1957Steve Podborski, Canadian downhill ski racer
- 1958Alex Filippenko, American astrophysicist
- 1958Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
- 1959Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial Killer
- 1960Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
- 1961Bobbie Eakes, American actress
- 1961Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
- 1961Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
- 1962Doug Drabek, American baseball player
- 1963Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
- 1963Julian Hodgson, English chess player
- 1964Breuk Iversen, American designer and writer
- 1965Illeana Douglas, American actress
- 1965Marty Brown (singer), country singer
- 1966Christine C. Quinn, American politician
- 1966Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
- 1966Maureen Herman, American bassist
- 1967Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- 1967Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
- 1967Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
- 1968Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer
- 1969Jon Barry, American basketball player
- 1971Billy Wagner, American baseball player
- 1971Chloë Annett, British actress
- 1971Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
- 1971Tracy Murray, American basketball player
- 1973Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
- 1973David Denman, American actor
- 1973Kevin Phillips, English footballer
- 1973Michael C. Williams, American actor
- 1973Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
- 1974Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
- 1974Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1975Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
- 1975Jody Craddock, English footballer
- 1976Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1976Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
- 1976Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
- 1977Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
- 1978Gerard Warren, American football player
- 1978Louise Brown, World’s first test tube baby
- 1979Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
- 1979Amy Adams, American singer
- 1980Diam’s, French rapper
- 1980Scott Waldrom, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1980Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
- 1980Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
- 1981Conor Casey, American soccer player
- 1981Constantinos Charalambidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1981Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1982Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1982Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
- 1982Norbert Lemcke, German footballer
- 1983Nenad Krstic, Serbian basketball player
- 1984Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
- 1985Gaël Clichy, French footballer
- 1985James Lafferty, American actor
- 1985Jasmine Lennard, English model
- 1985Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver
- 1986Abraham Guié Guié, Ivorian footballer
- 1986Ahtyba Rubin, American football player
- 1986Barbara Meier, German model
- 1986Givanildo Vieira de Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1987Michael Welch, American actor
- 1988Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
- 1988Heather Marks, Canadian model
- 1988Sarah Geronimo, Filipina actress and singer
- 1989Francisco Ferreira, Portuguese journalist
- 1989Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
- 1990Andi Eigenmann, Filipina actress
- 2000Preston Bailey, American actor--
Who Died On July 25?
- 306Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
- 1409King Martin I of Sicily
- 1471Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
- 1472Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
- 1492Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
- 1572Isaac Luria, Jewish mystic (b. 1534)
- 1616Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
- 1643Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
- 1676François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
- 1681Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
- 1790Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
- 1790William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
- 1791Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
- 1794André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
- 1826Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
- 1834Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
- 1842Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
- 1843Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
- 1853Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
- 1861Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
- 1865“James Barry”, military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
- 1866Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)
- 1887John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
- 1934Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
- 1934François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
- 1952Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
- 1959Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (b. 1888)
- 1962Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
- 1963Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
- 1967Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)
- 1971Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
- 1973Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
- 1980Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
- 1982Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
- 1984Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
- 1984Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
- 1986Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
- 1988Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
- 1989Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
- 1992Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 1995Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)
- 1997Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
- 1998Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman (b. 1910)
- 1998Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
- 2000Rudi Faßnacht, German football manager (b. 1934)
- 2002Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2003Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
- 2003John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
- 2003Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
- 2004John Passmore, Australian philosopher (b. 1914)
- 2005Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
- 2006Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
- 2006Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (b. 1928)
- 2007Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
- 2007Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
- 2008Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
- 2008Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his “Last Lecture” (b. 1960)
- 2008Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
- 2009Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)
- 2009Harry Patch, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1898)
- 2009Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
- 2009Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
- 2010Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)
- 2011Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)
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