Historical Events on July 25

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• 864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings
• 1120 Large fire in church of Saint Madeleine of Vézelay, France, kills a thousand pilgrims and seriously damages the church
• 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

• 1510 Spanish conquest of Tripoli by Pedro Navarro for Aragon crown; over 3,000 killed and more than 5,000 inhabitants enslaved

• 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

• 1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela

• 1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics

• 1609 Admiral George Somers scuttles the "Sea Venture" in eastern Bermuda, the storm damaged flagship of the London Company bound for Jamestown, Virginia. Survivors construct two new ships and continue on to re-supply the embattled colony.
• 1645 Important Royalist base Scarborough Castle surrenders to parliamentarians after one of the bloodiest sieges of the English Civil War [1]
• 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 governor-general of Southern Netherlands
• 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
• 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)

• 1792 Dutch patriots exiles found "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

• 1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane), bloodiest battle of the War of 1812 ends in a stalemate between invading American army and Canadian and British forces [1]

• 1822 Rebellion led by José de la Riva-Agüero begins in Lima against the local rule of Bernardo de Monteagudo
• 1824 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.

• 1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachusetts, kills 1
• 1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
• 1837 The first commercial use of an electric telegraph successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone 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 Murrieta, the famous Californian bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed by California Rangers

• 1860 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yale)
• 1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Territory - Rebels attack Union troops
• 1861 Washington, D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
• 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

• 1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
• 1871 Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa

• 1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rico, at Guanica Bay
• 1901 Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War

• 1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hil, San Francisco closes
• 1907 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
• 1908 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.
• 1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel
• 1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
• 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
• 1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
• 1913 Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey scores 5 runs without a hit, reaching first base on an error and 4 walks, as the Bucs beat Philadelphia Phillies, 12-2
• 1914 Germany Socialist-Democrat Party declares: "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" in response to German support of Austria-Hungary

• 1914 Serbia meets the deadlines of Austria-Hungary's ultimatum and gives a conciliatory reply, though Serbia is mobilizing
• 1916 Explosion at Lake Erie and 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, California
• 1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed)
• 1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
• 1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1
• 1930 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland

• 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 and last Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendriku Colijn, forms
• 1939 New York Yankees starting pitcher Atley Donald sets American League rookie record for consecutive wins; beats St. Louis Browns 5-1 for his 12th straight victory
• 1940 American John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours, 46 minutes from St. Louis to Caruthersville, Missouri in the Mississippi River; 292 miles, longest solo swim of all time
• 1941 41-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final MLB career game as the Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-6 at Fenway Park

• 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 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
• 1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
• 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
• 1944 Japanese banzai-attack on Guam
• 1944 Operation Cobra: US forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment
• 1944 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed

• 1946 US detonates an underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (5th atomic explosion)

• 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
• 1956 46 die in collision of the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket
• 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 Roger Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 off of 4 Chicago White Sox pitchers in a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, NYC
• 1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
• 1963 US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty
• 1964 Australian cricket captain and opening batsman Bob Simpson hits 311 v England in the drawn 4th Test in Manchester
• 1964 Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks
• 1964 Race riot in Rochester, NY

• 1967 Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)

• 1972 US health officials concede African American were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment

• 1973 USSR launches Mars 5
• 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

• 1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
• 1976 Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's opera "Einstein on the Beach" premieres at Théâtre Municipal, in Avignon, France

• 1978 The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
• 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 Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby match between the provincial team Waikato and South Africa’s Springboks by invading the pitch during the game [1]
• 1982 France performs nuclear Test
• 1982 Zail Singh is sworn in as the seventh President of India
• 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 Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
• 1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
• 1985 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 1985 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
• 1987 R. Venkataraman becomes the eighth President of India
• 1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite

• 1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)

• 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 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
• 1991 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
• 1992 25th Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain
• 1992 Army refused to overturn 127-year-old conviction against Dr Mudd
• 1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon

• 1993 The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army
• 1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington, D.C.)
• 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 Canadian rocker Rick Danko (The Band) gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling

• 1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
• 1997 K. R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit, formerly called "untouchable" to hold the office

• 1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
• 1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC

• 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
• 2002 17th Commonwealth Games open in Manchester, England

• 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's 1st female President

• 2012 Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
• 2012 Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
• 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th)
• 2012 The double dip recession in the UK economy continues with a fall of 0.7% in GDP in the second quarter of 2012
• 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

• 2014 Israeli airstrike kills leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing, Salah Abu Hassanein
• 2014 Palestinian officials call for a "Day of Rage" in the West Bank and within Israel against Israel's operation against Gaza; Israeli Defence Force prepares for protests
• 2015 UCI BMX Supercross series: Niek Kimmann & Stefany Hernandez win the world title

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