Historical Events on July 25 (Part 2)

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• 2016 England fast bowler Jimmy Anderson becomes first quick to take 50 wickets against all other 7 major Test cricket-playing nations during 2nd Test against Pakistan in Manchester
• 2016 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo
• 2017 167 African migrants rescued by NGO Proactiva Open Arms off the coast of Libya, 13 perish

• 2017 Israeli authorities remove new metal detectors from Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif after Palestinian protests amid rising tensions in Jerusalem
• 2017 Ram Nath Kovind becomes 14th President of India
• 2017 Sperm counts have halved in last 40 years says research published in "Human Reproduction Update" journal
• 2017 Wildfires on France's Mediterranean coast near Bormes-les-Mimosas prompts evacuation of 12,000 people

• 2018 Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science"
• 2018 Multiple suicide bombings and attacks by the Islamic State in Sweida and surrounding areas of Syria kill more than 200

• 2018 Somalia’s attorney general announces country's first prosecution of female genital mutilation after death of a 10-year-old girl
• 2019 "City killer" Asteroid 2019 OK (187 to 427 ft (57 to 130 m) estimated diameter) passes by almost undetected approximately 45,000 miles away from earth, nearer than the moon
• 2019 High temperature records set across Europe just one day after previous records set, Paris 42.6C (108.7F), Germany 42.6C (108.6F), Netherlands 40.7C (105.2F), Belgium 40.6C (105.2F)
• 2019 Highest ever UK temperature of 38.7C (101.6F) recorded in Cambridge, England (record broken in 2022)
• 2019 Scandal-hit Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló resigns
• 2019 US Justice department announces resumption of use of the death penalty, scheduling five executions
• 2019 Worst Mediterranean migrant drownings of the year - boat carrying 250 people capsizes off Libyan coast, with over 100 feared drowned
• 2020 Cargo ship MV Wakashio runs aground off the coast of Mauritius and begins leaking oil
• 2020 Hurricane Hanna, 1st of the 2020 season, makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast as a category 1 storm
• 2020 North Korea reports first 'suspected' case of COVID-19 in city of Kaesong

• 2021 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Australian Minjee Lee recovers from 7 shots behind to beat South Korea’s Lee6 Jeongeun in a play-off for her first major title
• 2021 Japanese judokas Uta Abe (women's 52kg) and brother Hifumi (men's 66kg) make history as first siblings to win Olympic gold medals in different events on same day at the Tokyo Games
• 2021 Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome wins the sport's inaugural Olympic gold medal in the men's street section at the Tokyo Games
• 2021 Typhoon In-Fa (Yanhua) makes landfall in the city of Zhoushan on China's east coast
• 2021 USA's men's basketball team see their 25-game Olympic winning streak end; beaten 83-76 by France in first round match in Tokyo
• 2022 UN says 209 people killed in gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, including no-gang members over 10 days, with a further 254 injured with gunshot wounds [1]
• 2023 Scientists say crucial Atlantic ocean current near collapse - the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach its tipping point middle of this century [1]

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