Overview
About the event
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- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Wine and Cheese Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Hire a Veteran Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National System Administrator Appreciation Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Talk in an Elevator Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Carousel Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� International Red Shoe Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� St. James TG
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Talk in an Elevator Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Ask an Archaeologist Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� International Day on Judicial Well-being
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� World Drowning Prevention Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Get Gnarly Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Thread the Needle Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Culinarians Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Gentse Feesten is a vibrant celebration held in Ghent, Belgium
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Darwin Show Day
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Zoo Keeper Week
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Tour de France
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Festival of British Archaeology
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Love Parks Week
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Big Butterfly Count
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Moth Week
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� National Parenting Gifted Children Week
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Everybody Deserves a Massage Week
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- Notable Birthdays
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Henry Knox (1750-1806) - The first States Secretary of War for the U.S.
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- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� George Vashon (1824-1878) - The first Black American lawyer to offer services in NY.
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- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Flora Adams Darling (1840-1910) - Founder of the Daughters of American Revolution.
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- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - Considered one of America's most prolific painters, sculptors, and photographers.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1929 �?? Somnath Chatterjee, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 2018)
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1935 �?? Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian businessman (died 2017)
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- Memorable Events for July 25
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 2019 �?? National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 2016 - Verizon purchases Yahoo for $4.83 billion.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 2007 Pratibha Patil - Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India, becoming the first woman to hold the office.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1984 - Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1952 - Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico attained its own government as a commonwealth of the United States.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 2010 �?? WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1983 �?? Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1978 �?? Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1976 �?? Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1973 �?? Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1946 �?? The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1925 �?? Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 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.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1898 - Nelson Miles, William R. Shafter, and Joseph Wheeler - U.S. forces under General Nelson A. Miles invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1837 �?? The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1824 �?? Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1788 �?? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1593 �?? Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1554 �?? The royal wedding of Mary I and Philip II of Spain celebrated at Winchester Cathedral
- ?�?�?�?�?�?�?� 1547 �?? Henry II of France is crowned.
