ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: JULY 25
FEATURED EVENT
1814
American advance into Canada halted by British troops
Near Niagara Falls on this day in 1814, British troops commanded by General Phineas Riall thwarted an invasion of Canada by a U.S. force under General Jacob Brown in the Battle of Lundy's Lane during the War of 1812.
Featured Biography
American painter
- born
- July 25, 1844
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(Born on this day)
- died
- June 25, 1916 (aged 71)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Born on This Day
1954
Walter Payton
American football player
1941
Emmett Till
American murder victim
1920
Rosalind Franklin
British scientist
1894
Walter Brennan
American actor
MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY
Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India, becoming the first woman to hold the office.
2007
A Concorde supersonic airplane—Air France flight 4590—crashed outside Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four others on the ground; the event was believed to have hastened the end of all Concorde operations three years later.
2000
Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1984
At the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival, American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan initially eschewed his acoustic guitar to go electric; the controversial performance is considered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of rock and roll.
1965
Puerto Rico attained its own government as a commonwealth of the United States.
1952
A member of the foreign ministry of the newly formed Soviet government, Lev Karakhan, issued the Karakhan Manifesto, in which he offered to relinquish all Soviet claims to the special rights and privileges in China won by the Russian tsarist government.
1919
Johnny Hodges—a jazz alto saxophonist who was a featured soloist in Duke Ellington's orchestra, known for his brilliant improvisational sense of composition—was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1906
U.S. forces under General Nelson A. Miles invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
1898
The U.S. Congress formed the Wyoming Territory.
1868
English Romantic poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge died.
1834
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July 1
1867Dominion of Canada established -
July 2
1839Revolt aboard the slave shipAmistad -
July 3
1863Battle of Gettysburg ended -
July 4
1776Declaration of Independence approved by Second Continental Congress -
July 5
1950Israel's Law of Return passed -
July 6
1942Anne Frank forced into hiding -
July 7
1898Hawaiian Islands annexed by the United States -
July 8
1497Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India -
July 9
1762Catherine the Great assumed power -
July 10
1962Telstar 1 launched -
July 11
1804Duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton -
July 12
1984Geraldine Ferraro designated running mate of Walter Mondale -
July 13
1793French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat assassinated -
July 14
1789Bastille stormed by Paris mob -
July 15
1965Close-up pictures of Mars provided by Mariner 4 -
July 16
1945First atomic bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico -
July 17
1936Beginning of the Spanish Civil War -
July 18
1925Publication ofMein Kampf -
July 19
1848U.S. woman suffrage movement began -
July 20
1969First Moon landing -
July 21
1798Egyptians defeated in the Battle of the Pyramids -
July 22
1977Deng Xiaoping reinstated -
July 23
1952Egyptian monarchy toppled by coup -
July 24
1917Beginning of Mata Hari's trial -
July 25
1814American advance into Canada halted by British troops -
July 26
1956Suez Canal seized -
July 27
1996Terrorist attack at Atlanta Olympics -
July 28
1914Beginning of World War I -
July 29
1958National Aeronautics and Space Administration established -
July 30
1898Death of Otto von Bismarck -
July 31
1971Lunar Roving Vehicle first used on the Moon
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