Major Events
- 306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops
- 1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher
- 1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III
- 1944 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
- 1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
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Jul 25 in Film & TV
- 1946 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Jul 25 in Music
- 1965 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock
- 1975 Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban's musical "A Chorus Line", opens at the Shubert Theatre, NYC; for record setting longest-running Broadway show run of 6,137 performances, and 10 Tony Award wins
Jul 25 in Sport
- 1999 86th Tour de France: Lance Armstrong wins 1st of 7 consecutive Tour de France titles but is later disqualified for drug cheating
Did You Know?
Ajinomoto Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process for manufacturing it.
James I
Arthur Balfour
Davidson Black
Gavrilo Princip
Rosalind Franklin
Emmett Till
Woody Strode
Whipper Billy Watson
Estelle Getty
Matt LeBlanc
Nate Thurmond
Walter Payton
Fun Fact About July 25
Sperm counts have halved in last 40 years says research published in "Human Reproduction Update" journal
Famous Weddings
- 1554 Mary I of England (37) marries Prince Philip of Spain (27) (later Philip II) at Winchester Cathedral, England
- 1773 Spanish painter Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu in Madrid
- 1814 Inventor Charles Babbage (21) weds Georgina Whitmore at St. Michael's Church in Devon, England
Famous Divorces
- 1988 Heiress Julia Stimson Thorne (43) divorces politician John Kerry (44) after 18 years of marriage
- 2012 Actress Sunny Mabrey (36) divorces "Brotherhood" actor Ethan Embry (34) due to irreconcilable differences after almost 7 years marriage
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Willie Park Sr.
Louis St. Laurent
Ben Hogan
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Olivia de HavillandArticles, Photos and Quiz
The Story of Writer O. Henry’s Short Life
William Porter was sent to prison for embezzlement in 1897. The sentence gave him time to write and the celebrated short stories of “O.Henry” were born.
July 25, 1897
Fall of Benito Mussolini
The recorded votes of the Grand Council of Fascism voting no confidence in Benito Mussolini
July 25, 1943
