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July 25th, 2007 (July 25 2007) | Event | Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India s first woman president | |
July 25th, 2007 (July 25 2007) | Death | Bernd Jakubowski, German goal keeper (born in 1952) | |
July 25th, 2007 (July 25 2007) | Death | Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (born in 1979) | |
July 25th, 2006 (July 25 2006) | Death | Carl Brashear, First African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (born in 1931) | |
July 25th, 2005 (July 25 2005) | Death | Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (born in 1928) | |
July 25th, 2003 (July 25 2003) | Death | Ludwig Bolkow, German aeronautical engineer (born in 1912) | |
July 25th, 2003 (July 25 2003) | Death | Erik Brann, American bass player (born in 1950) | |
July 25th, 2003 (July 25 2003) | Death | John Schlesinger, British film director (born in 1926) | |
July 25th, 2002 (July 25 2002) | Death | Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (born in 1917) | Philo Quotes |
July 25th, 2000 (July 25 2000) | Event | 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. | |
July 25th, 1998 (July 25 1998) | Death | Tal Farlow, American jazz guitar virtuoso. (born in 1921) | |
July 25th, 1997 (July 25 1997) | Event | K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India s 10th president and the first Dalit- formerly called "untouchable"- to hold this office. | |
July 25th, 1997 (July 25 1997) | Death | Ben Hogan, American golfer (born in 1912) | |
July 25th, 1996 (July 25 1996) | Death | Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (born in 1914) | |
July 25th, 1995 (July 25 1995) | Event | A gas bottle exploded in station Saint Michel of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight were killed and 80 wounded. | |
July 25th, 1995 (July 25 1995) | Death | Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (born in 1932) | |
July 25th, 1994 (July 25 1994) | Event | Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948. | |
July 25th, 1993 (July 25 1993) | Event | Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War. | |
July 25th, 1993 (July 25 1993) | Event | The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. | |
July 25th, 1992 (July 25 1992) | Death | Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (born in 1914) | |
July 25th, 1989 (July 25 1989) | Birth | Noel Callahan, Canadian actor | |
July 25th, 1989 (July 25 1989) | Death | Steve Rubell, American night club owner (born in 1943) | |
July 25th, 1988 (July 25 1988) | Birth | Heather Marks, Canadian model | |
July 25th, 1988 (July 25 1988) | Birth | Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer | |
July 25th, 1988 (July 25 1988) | Death | Judith Barsi, American actress (born in 1978) | |
July 25th, 1987 (July 25 1987) | Birth | Michael Welch, American actor | |
July 25th, 1986 (July 25 1986) | Death | Vincente Minnelli, American film director (born in 1903) | |
July 25th, 1985 (July 25 1985) | Birth | James Lafferty, American actor | |
July 25th, 1985 (July 25 1985) | Birth | Jasmine Lennard, English model | |
July 25th, 1985 (July 25 1985) | Birth | Nelson Angelo Piquet, Brazilian race car driver | |
July 25th, 1984 (July 25 1984) | Event | Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. | |
July 25th, 1984 (July 25 1984) | Birth | Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player | |
July 25th, 1984 (July 25 1984) | Death | Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1913) | |
July 25th, 1984 (July 25 1984) | Death | Big Mama Thornton, American singer (born in 1926) | |
July 25th, 1983 (July 25 1983) | Event | Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo were massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. | |
July 25th, 1982 (July 25 1982) | Birth | Brad Renfro, American actor (died in 2008) | |
July 25th, 1982 (July 25 1982) | Death | Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (born in 1892) | |
July 25th, 1981 (July 25 1981) | Birth | Conor Casey, American soccer player | |
July 25th, 1981 (July 25 1981) | Birth | Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player | |
July 25th, 1980 (July 25 1980) | Birth | Diam s, French female rapper | |
July 25th, 1980 (July 25 1980) | Birth | Shawn Riggans, American baseball player | |
July 25th, 1980 (July 25 1980) | Birth | Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver | |
July 25th, 1980 (July 25 1980) | Death | Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (born in 1938) | |
July 25th, 1979 (July 25 1979) | Birth | Amy Adams, American singer | |
July 25th, 1979 (July 25 1979) | Birth | Allister Carter, English professional snooker player | |
July 25th, 1978 (July 25 1978) | Event | The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs. | |
July 25th, 1978 (July 25 1978) | Birth | Louise Brown, World s first test tube baby | |
July 25th, 1978 (July 25 1978) | Birth | Gerard Warren, American football player | |
July 25th, 1977 (July 25 1977) | Birth | Kenny Thomas, American basketball player | |
July 25th, 1976 (July 25 1976) | Birth | Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress | |
July 25th, 1976 (July 25 1976) | Birth | Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet | |
July 25th, 1976 (July 25 1976) | Birth | Javier Vazquez, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
July 25th, 1975 (July 25 1975) | Birth | Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer | |
July 25th, 1974 (July 25 1974) | Birth | Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler | |
July 25th, 1974 (July 25 1974) | Birth | Jay R. Ferguson, American actor | |
July 25th, 1973 (July 25 1973) | Event | Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched. | |
July 25th, 1973 (July 25 1973) | Birth | Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth) | |
July 25th, 1973 (July 25 1973) | Birth | David Denman, American actor | |
July 25th, 1973 (July 25 1973) | Birth | Kevin Phillips, English footballer | |
July 25th, 1973 (July 25 1973) | Birth | Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer | |
July 25th, 1973 (July 25 1973) | Birth | Michael C. Williams, American actor | |
July 25th, 1973 (July 25 1973) | Death | Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1882) | |
July 25th, 1971 (July 25 1971) | Birth | Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter | |
July 25th, 1971 (July 25 1971) | Birth | Billy Wagner, American baseball player | |
July 25th, 1971 (July 25 1971) | Death | Leroy Robertson, American composer (born in 1896) | |
July 25th, 1969 (July 25 1969) | Event | 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. | |
July 25th, 1969 (July 25 1969) | Birth | Jon Barry, American basketball player | |
July 25th, 1967 (July 25 1967) | Birth | Matt LeBlanc, American actor | |
July 25th, 1967 (July 25 1967) | Birth | Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress | |
July 25th, 1967 (July 25 1967) | Birth | Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee | |
July 25th, 1966 (July 25 1966) | Birth | Maureen Herman, American bassist | |
July 25th, 1966 (July 25 1966) | Birth | Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer | |
July 25th, 1966 (July 25 1966) | Birth | Christine C. Quinn, American politician | |
July 25th, 1965 (July 25 1965) | Birth | Illeana Douglas, American actress | |
July 25th, 1963 (July 25 1963) | Birth | Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician | |
July 25th, 1963 (July 25 1963) | Birth | Julian Hodgson, English chess player | Julian Quotes |
July 25th, 1963 (July 25 1963) | Death | Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (born in 1877) | |
July 25th, 1962 (July 25 1962) | Death | Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (born in 1879) | |
July 25th, 1961 (July 25 1961) | Event | John F. Kennedy speech emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
July 25th, 1961 (July 25 1961) | Birth | Bobbie Eakes, American actress | |
July 25th, 1961 (July 25 1961) | Birth | Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress | |
July 25th, 1960 (July 25 1960) | Birth | Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player | |
July 25th, 1959 (July 25 1959) | Birth | Anatoly Onoprienko, a Ukrainian serial Killer | |
July 25th, 1958 (July 25 1958) | Event | The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. | |
July 25th, 1958 (July 25 1958) | Birth | Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth) | |
July 25th, 1956 (July 25 1956) | Event | 45 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. | |
July 25th, 1955 (July 25 1955) | Birth | Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model | |
July 25th, 1955 (July 25 1955) | Birth | Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder | |
July 25th, 1954 (July 25 1954) | Birth | Walter Payton, American football player (died in 1999) | |
July 25th, 1952 (July 25 1952) | Event | The 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. | |
July 25th, 1952 (July 25 1952) | Death | Herbert Murrill, English composer (born in 1909) | |
July 25th, 1951 (July 25 1951) | Birth | Verdine White, American bassist | |
July 25th, 1946 (July 25 1946) | Event | Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll. | |
July 25th, 1946 (July 25 1946) | Event | At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. | |
July 25th, 1946 (July 25 1946) | Birth | Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer | |
July 25th, 1946 (July 25 1946) | Birth | John Gibson, American media host | |
July 25th, 1944 (July 25 1944) | Event | World War II: Operation SpringOne of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed. | |
July 25th, 1943 (July 25 1943) | Event | World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. | Pietro Badoglio Quotes |
July 25th, 1943 (July 25 1943) | Birth | Jim McCarty, English musician | |
July 25th, 1942 (July 25 1942) | Birth | Bruce Woodley, Australian singer, guitarist and songwriter (The Seekers) | |
July 25th, 1941 (July 25 1941) | Birth | Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer | |
July 25th, 1941 (July 25 1941) | Birth | Emmett Till, American murder victim (died in 1955) | |
July 25th, 1940 (July 25 1940) | Event | General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and make surrender illegal. | |
July 25th, 1937 (July 25 1937) | Birth | Colin Renfrew, English archeologist | |
July 25th, 1936 (July 25 1936) | Birth | Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver | |
July 25th, 1936 (July 25 1936) | Birth | Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect | |
July 25th, 1935 (July 25 1935) | Birth | Barbara Harris, American actress | |
July 25th, 1935 (July 25 1935) | Birth | Larry Sherry, American baseball player (died in 2006) | |
July 25th, 1935 (July 25 1935) | Birth | Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader | |
July 25th, 1935 (July 25 1935) | Birth | Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant | |
July 25th, 1934 (July 25 1934) | Event | Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. | |
July 25th, 1934 (July 25 1934) | Birth | Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (died in 1978) | |
July 25th, 1934 (July 25 1934) | Birth | Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter | |
July 25th, 1934 (July 25 1934) | Death | Francois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (born in 1874) | |
July 25th, 1934 (July 25 1934) | Death | Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (born in 1892) | |
July 25th, 1934 (July 25 1934) | Death | Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (born in 1889) | |
July 25th, 1930 (July 25 1930) | Birth | Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto | |
July 25th, 1930 (July 25 1930) | Birth | Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (died in 1990) | |
July 25th, 1930 (July 25 1930) | Birth | Annie Ross, British jazz singer | |
July 25th, 1929 (July 25 1929) | Birth | Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader | |
July 25th, 1929 (July 25 1929) | Birth | Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (died in 1995) | |
July 25th, 1928 (July 25 1928) | Birth | Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (died in 2005) | |
July 25th, 1928 (July 25 1928) | Birth | Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (died in 1988) | |
July 25th, 1927 (July 25 1927) | Birth | Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (died in 2003) | |
July 25th, 1927 (July 25 1927) | Birth | Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (died in 2000) | |
July 25th, 1926 (July 25 1926) | Birth | Whitey Lockman, American baseball player | |
July 25th, 1925 (July 25 1925) | Event | Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. | |
July 25th, 1925 (July 25 1925) | Birth | Jerry Paris, American actor (died in 1986) | |
July 25th, 1924 (July 25 1924) | Birth | Frank Church, American politician | |
July 25th, 1923 (July 25 1923) | Birth | Estelle Getty, American actress | |
July 25th, 1923 (July 25 1923) | Birth | Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (died in 2007) | |
July 25th, 1920 (July 25 1920) | Event | Telecommunications: First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place. | |
July 25th, 1920 (July 25 1920) | Birth | Jean Carmet, French actor (died in 1994) | |
July 25th, 1920 (July 25 1920) | Birth | Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (died in 1958) | |
July 25th, 1918 (July 25 1918) | Birth | Jane Frank, American artist (died in 1986) | |
July 25th, 1917 (July 25 1917) | Event | Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). | |
July 25th, 1917 (July 25 1917) | Birth | Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (died in 1990) | |
July 25th, 1916 (July 25 1916) | Birth | Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (died in 1989) | |
July 25th, 1914 (July 25 1914) | Birth | Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (died in 1994) | |
July 25th, 1909 (July 25 1909) | Event | Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes. | |
July 25th, 1908 (July 25 1908) | Event | Ajinomoto is foundedied in 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. | |
July 25th, 1908 (July 25 1908) | Birth | Bill Bowes, English cricketer (died in 1987) | |
July 25th, 1908 (July 25 1908) | Birth | Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (died in 2003) | |
July 25th, 1908 (July 25 1908) | Birth | Jack Gilford, American actor (died in 1990) | |
July 25th, 1907 (July 25 1907) | Event | Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan. | |
July 25th, 1907 (July 25 1907) | Birth | Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (died in 1970) | |
July 25th, 1905 (July 25 1905) | Birth | Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1994) | |
July 25th, 1905 (July 25 1905) | Birth | Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (died in 1990) | |
July 25th, 1902 (July 25 1902) | Birth | Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (died in 1983) | Eric Hoffer Quotes |
July 25th, 1901 (July 25 1901) | Birth | Lila Lee, American actress (died in 1973) | |
July 25th, 1898 (July 25 1898) | Event | The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Guanica, Puerto Rico [The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898]. | |
July 25th, 1897 (July 25 1897) | Event | Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. | Jack London Quotes |
July 25th, 1896 (July 25 1896) | Birth | Jack Perrin, American actor (died in 1967) | |
July 25th, 1895 (July 25 1895) | Birth | Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (died in 1977) | |
July 25th, 1894 (July 25 1894) | Event | The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. | |
July 25th, 1894 (July 25 1894) | Birth | Walter Brennan, American actor (died in 1974) | |
July 25th, 1894 (July 25 1894) | Birth | Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (died in 1918) | |
July 25th, 1887 (July 25 1887) | Death | John Taylor, American religious leader (born in 1808) | |
July 25th, 1886 (July 25 1886) | Birth | Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (died in 1946) | |
July 25th, 1883 (July 25 1883) | Birth | Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (died in 1947) | |
July 25th, 1882 (July 25 1882) | Birth | George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (died in 1942) | |
July 25th, 1870 (July 25 1870) | Birth | Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (died in 1966) | |
July 25th, 1869 (July 25 1869) | Event | The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869). | |
July 25th, 1868 (July 25 1868) | Event | Wyoming becomes a United States territory. | |
July 25th, 1867 (July 25 1867) | Birth | Max Dauthendey, German writer (died in 1918) | |
July 25th, 1867 (July 25 1867) | Birth | Alexander Rummler, American painter (died in 1959) | |
July 25th, 1866 (July 25 1866) | Event | 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. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
July 25th, 1861 (July 25 1861) | Event | 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. | |
July 25th, 1861 (July 25 1861) | Death | Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (born in 1805) | |
July 25th, 1860 (July 25 1860) | Birth | Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (died in 1917) | |
July 25th, 1853 (July 25 1853) | Event | Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. | |
July 25th, 1853 (July 25 1853) | Death | Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw | |
July 25th, 1848 (July 25 1848) | Birth | Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1930) | |
July 25th, 1844 (July 25 1844) | Birth | Thomas Eakins, American artist (died in 1916) | Thomas Eakins Quotes |
July 25th, 1843 (July 25 1843) | Death | Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (born in 1766) | |
July 25th, 1842 (July 25 1842) | Death | Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (born in 1766) | |
July 25th, 1839 (July 25 1839) | Birth | Francis Garnier, French explorer (died in 1873) | |
July 25th, 1837 (July 25 1837) | Event | 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. | |
July 25th, 1834 (July 25 1834) | Death | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (born in 1772) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
July 25th, 1826 (July 25 1826) | Death | Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (born in 1795) | |
July 25th, 1824 (July 25 1824) | Event | Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua. | |
July 25th, 1814 (July 25 1814) | Event | War of 1812: Battle of Lundy s LaneReinforcements 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; Americans retreat to Fort Erie. | |
July 25th, 1799 (July 25 1799) | Event | At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. | |
July 25th, 1799 (July 25 1799) | Birth | David Douglas, Scottish botanist (died in 1834) | |
July 25th, 1797 (July 25 1797) | Event | Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain). | Horatio Nelson Quotes |
July 25th, 1797 (July 25 1797) | Birth | Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (died in 1889) | |
July 25th, 1795 (July 25 1795) | Event | The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. | |
July 25th, 1794 (July 25 1794) | Death | Andre Chenier, French writer (born in 1762) | |
July 25th, 1792 (July 25 1792) | Event | The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed. | |
July 25th, 1791 (July 25 1791) | Death | Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (born in 1735) | |
July 25th, 1790 (July 25 1790) | Death | Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (born in 1723) | |
July 25th, 1790 (July 25 1790) | Death | William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (born in 1723) | |
July 25th, 1759 (July 25 1759) | Event | French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouille. | |
July 25th, 1758 (July 25 1758) | Event | Seven Years War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. | |
July 25th, 1755 (July 25 1755) | Event | The decision to deport the Acadians takes place in Halifax. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and Englandied in Some later moved to Louisiana, while others later resettled in New Brunswick. | |
July 25th, 1750 (July 25 1750) | Birth | Henry Knox, American general (died in 1806) | |
July 25th, 1722 (July 25 1722) | Event | Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border. | |
July 25th, 1693 (July 25 1693) | Event | Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, actual Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. | |
July 25th, 1681 (July 25 1681) | Death | Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (born in 1631) | |
July 25th, 1676 (July 25 1676) | Death | Francois Hedelin, abbe d Aubignac, French writer (born in 1604) | |
July 25th, 1658 (July 25 1658) | Birth | Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (died in 1703) | |
July 25th, 1653 (July 25 1653) | Birth | Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (died in 1728) | |
July 25th, 1643 (July 25 1643) | Death | Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (born in 1584) | |
July 25th, 1616 (July 25 1616) | Death | Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (born in 1550) | |
July 25th, 1603 (July 25 1603) | Event | James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain. | |
July 25th, 1593 (July 25 1593) | Event | Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. | |
July 25th, 1567 (July 25 1567) | Event | Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. | |
July 25th, 1562 (July 25 1562) | Birth | Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (died in 1611) | |
July 25th, 1547 (July 25 1547) | Event | Henry II (France) crowned. | |
July 25th, 1536 (July 25 1536) | Event | Sebastian de Belalcazar on his search of El Dorado found the City of Santiago de Cali. | |
July 25th, 1492 (July 25 1492) | Death | Pope Innocent VIII (born in 1432) | |
July 25th, 1421 (July 25 1421) | Birth | Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (died in 1461) | |
July 25th, 1409 (July 25 1409) | Death | King Martin I of Sicily | |
July 25th, 1404 (July 25 1404) | Birth | Philip I, Duke of Brabant (died in 1430) | |
July 25th, 1336 (July 25 1336) | Birth | Albert, Count of Holland (died in 1404) | |
July 25th, 1261 (July 25 1261) | Event | The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. | |
July 25th, 1139 (July 25 1139) | Event | Battle of Ourique: The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of Leon and Castile declared after the battle against the Almoravids. | |
July 25th, 1109 (July 25 1109) | Birth | Afonso I of Portugal (died in 1185) | |
July 25th, 1016 (July 25 1016) | Birth | Casimir I, Duke of Poland (died in c. 1058) | |
July 25th, 0864 (July 25 0864) | Event | Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. | |
July 25th, 0306 (July 25 0306) | Event | Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. | |
July 25th, 0306 (July 25 0306) | Death | Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (born in 250) | |
July 25th, 0285 (July 25 0285) | Event | Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. | |