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Events on the 25th of July in history

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25 Jul 0285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
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25 Jul 0306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
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25 Jul 0315 The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
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25 Jul 0841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
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25 Jul 0864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
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25 Jul 1137 Eleanor of Aquitaine married Prince Louis, eldest son of King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
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25 Jul 1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes King
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25 Jul 1139 Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
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25 Jul 1215 Frederik II (20) crowned King of German
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25 Jul 1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
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25 Jul 1261 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
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25 Jul 1278 The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
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25 Jul 1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
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25 Jul 1467 The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
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25 Jul 1511 Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
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25 Jul 1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
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25 Jul 1536 Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
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25 Jul 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.
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25 Jul 1547 Henry II of France is crowned.
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25 Jul 1554 Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
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25 Jul 1564 Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC Emperor
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25 Jul 1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
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25 Jul 1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
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25 Jul 1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
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25 Jul 1593 Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
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25 Jul 1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
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25 Jul 1603 James VI of Scotland is crowned 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.
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25 Jul 1609 The 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.
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25 Jul 1652 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
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25 Jul 1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
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25 Jul 1670 Vienna Austria expels Jews
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25 Jul 1670 Jews are expelled from Vienna Austria
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25 Jul 1689 France declares war on England
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25 Jul 1693 Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
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25 Jul 1722 Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
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25 Jul 1729 North Carolina becomes royal colony
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25 Jul 1755 British 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.
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25 Jul 1759 French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
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25 Jul 1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
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25 Jul 1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
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25 Jul 1783 American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
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25 Jul 1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
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25 Jul 1792 Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
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25 Jul 1792 The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
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25 Jul 1795 The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
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25 Jul 1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
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25 Jul 1799 At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
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25 Jul 1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
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25 Jul 1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
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25 Jul 1814 War 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.
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25 Jul 1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
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25 Jul 1822 Gen Agust
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25 Jul 1824 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
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25 Jul 1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
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25 Jul 1837 The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
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25 Jul 1848 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
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25 Jul 1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
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25 Jul 1853 Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
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25 Jul 1860 1st US intercollegiate billard match (Harvard vs Yales)
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25 Jul 1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
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25 Jul 1861 American 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.
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25 Jul 1866 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
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25 Jul 1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of US Navy
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25 Jul 1866 The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
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25 Jul 1866 US Grant named 1st general of Army
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25 Jul 1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
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25 Jul 1868 Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
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25 Jul 1868 Territory of Wyoming created
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25 Jul 1869 The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
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25 Jul 1871 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
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25 Jul 1893 The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
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25 Jul 1894 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
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25 Jul 1898 After 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.
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25 Jul 1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
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25 Jul 1902 James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Jul 1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
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25 Jul 1908 Ajinomoto 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.
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25 Jul 1909 Louis 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.
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25 Jul 1909 France's Louis Bl
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25 Jul 1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
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25 Jul 1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
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25 Jul 1913 Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
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25 Jul 1914 Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
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25 Jul 1915 RFC 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.
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25 Jul 1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
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25 Jul 1917 Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
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25 Jul 1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California
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25 Jul 1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
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25 Jul 1920 France captures Damascus.
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25 Jul 1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
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25 Jul 1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
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25 Jul 1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
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25 Jul 1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
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25 Jul 1930 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs. Cleveland
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25 Jul 1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
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25 Jul 1934 Failed Nazi coup in Austria
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25 Jul 1934 The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
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25 Jul 1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1641 Tana
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25 Jul 1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
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25 Jul 1936 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #3761
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25 Jul 1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
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25 Jul 1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
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25 Jul 1939 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
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25 Jul 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
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25 Jul 1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River
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25 Jul 1940 General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
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25 Jul 1941 FDR bans selling benzine / gasoline to Japan
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25 Jul 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
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25 Jul 1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
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25 Jul 1942 Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
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25 Jul 1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
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25 Jul 1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as Premier of Italy during WWII
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25 Jul 1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
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25 Jul 1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
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25 Jul 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
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25 Jul 1944 US troop march into Guam
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25 Jul 1944 World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
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25 Jul 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
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25 Jul 1946 Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
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25 Jul 1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
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25 Jul 1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
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25 Jul 1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
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25 Jul 1947 US Air Force, Navy and War Department form US Department of Defense
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25 Jul 1947 US Deptartment of the Army created
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25 Jul 1949 St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1
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25 Jul 1950 the Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel starting The Korean War.
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25 Jul 1950 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1799 Koussevitzky,
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25 Jul 1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1714 Sy
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25 Jul 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth
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25 Jul 1952 The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
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25 Jul 1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
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25 Jul 1953 New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
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25 Jul 1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10 to 15, 1st use of subway tokens
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25 Jul 1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
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25 Jul 1956 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill Country Club - Boston
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25 Jul 1956 Forty-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.
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25 Jul 1956 Andria Doria collided with MS Stockholm & sank. (7/26?)
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25 Jul 1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm
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25 Jul 1956 Jordanians attack UN Palestine truce
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25 Jul 1957 The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
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25 Jul 1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic
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25 Jul 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
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25 Jul 1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title
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25 Jul 1959 SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
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25 Jul 1959 Lloyd J. Old introduced BCG, a tuberculosis vaccine, into experimental cancer research as a way to stimulate non-specific resistance to tumor growth. BCG was FDA-approved in 1991 and is now widely used as a first line treatment for superficial bladder cancer.
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25 Jul 1960 US Republican Convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
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25 Jul 1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
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25 Jul 1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header
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25 Jul 1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
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25 Jul 1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
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25 Jul 1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
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25 Jul 1964 Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
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25 Jul 1964 Race riot in Rochester, New York
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25 Jul 1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
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25 Jul 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
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25 Jul 1965 Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
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25 Jul 1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
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25 Jul 1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
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25 Jul 1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
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25 Jul 1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
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25 Jul 1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
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25 Jul 1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
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25 Jul 1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
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25 Jul 1968 H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #1993 Guacolda
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25 Jul 1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash andYoung (Fillmore East, NY)
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25 Jul 1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
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25 Jul 1969 Vietnam 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.
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25 Jul 1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
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25 Jul 1970 " (They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
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25 Jul 1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
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25 Jul 1972 All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
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25 Jul 1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
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25 Jul 1972 NL beats AL 4-3 in 43rd All Star Game (Fulton County Stad, Atlanta)
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25 Jul 1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in
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25 Jul 1973 Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
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25 Jul 1973 George Harrison pays
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25 Jul 1973 USSR launches Mars 5
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25 Jul 1974 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik
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25 Jul 1975 "A Chorus Line, " longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
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25 Jul 1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
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25 Jul 1976 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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25 Jul 1976 Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
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25 Jul 1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
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25 Jul 1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
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25 Jul 1978 Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
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25 Jul 1978 Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
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25 Jul 1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
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25 Jul 1978 Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
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25 Jul 1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
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25 Jul 1979 Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
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25 Jul 1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
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25 Jul 1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
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25 Jul 1982 20th Tennis Federation Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
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25 Jul 1983 Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
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25 Jul 1983 1st nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
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25 Jul 1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
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25 Jul 1984 Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
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25 Jul 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space
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25 Jul 1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
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25 Jul 1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
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25 Jul 1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
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25 Jul 1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
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25 Jul 1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
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25 Jul 1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
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25 Jul 1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
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25 Jul 1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
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25 Jul 1990 "Les Miserables, " opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
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25 Jul 1990 Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
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25 Jul 1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
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25 Jul 1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
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25 Jul 1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
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25 Jul 1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
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25 Jul 1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
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25 Jul 1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
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25 Jul 1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
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25 Jul 1993 31st Tennis Federation Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
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25 Jul 1993 Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
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25 Jul 1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
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25 Jul 1993 Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
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25 Jul 1993 Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
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25 Jul 1993 The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
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25 Jul 1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington, DC)
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25 Jul 1994 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
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25 Jul 1996 Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
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25 Jul 1996 In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
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25 Jul 1997 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
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25 Jul 1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
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25 Jul 1997 QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
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25 Jul 1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
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25 Jul 1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City
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25 Jul 2000 Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
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25 Jul 2002 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th president of India.
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25 Jul 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
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25 Jul 2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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25 Jul 2012 Pranab Mukherjee became the 13th president of India.
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