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Notable anniversaries in history for today: July 25
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Frank Church; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Idaho).
- 90th: 1934 - Nazis assassinate Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Don Ellis in Los Angeles, California, USA; jazz musician and composer (The French Connection movie score (1973)).
- 80th: 1944 - (0938 hours) In France, Operation Cobra begins, with eight squadrons of the US 8th Air Force bombers attacking an area south of the St.Lô-Périers highway, in preparation for a breakout operation by the US 1st Army. 1500 heavy bombers, 380 medium bombers, and 550 fighter-bombers drop 4000 tons of bombs and napalm. Short bombing kills 111 Americans, and injures 490. The operation is incredibly effective.
- 80th: 1944 - In France, the U.S. 1st Army breaks through enemy positions near St. Lô.
- 80th: 1944 - First jet fighter used in combat (German Messerschmitt 262).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jim McCarty; drummer (The Yardbirds).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Lynn Frederick in Middlesex, England; actress (Schizophrenia).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Walter Payton; NFL running back (Chicago Bears) (dies 1999).
- 60th: 1964 - The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks.
- 60th: 1964 - Race riot in Rochester, New York, USA.
- 50th: 1974 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik.
- 40th: 1984 - Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya performs a space walk.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Willie Mae Thornton at age 57 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, USA; blues singer ("Hound Dog" (1953)).
- 30th: 1994 - Israel and Jordan sign the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
- 25th: 1999 - Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France (cycling).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Martin Agronsky at age 84 of congestive heart failure; print and TV journalist (NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face the Nation, PBS' Agronsky and Company).
- 20th: 2004 - Over 100,000 opponents of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2004 participate in a human chain from Gush Katif, to the Western Wall, Jerusalem (90 kilometres).
- 20th: 2004 - Paul Molitor and Dennis Eckersley are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Broadcaster Lon Simmons wins the Ford C. Frick Award and writer Murray Chass wins the J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
- 20th: 2004 - Lance Armstrong of Austin, Texas wins an unprecedented 6th consecutive Tour de France cycling title.
- 15th: 2009 - The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, dies at age 111 in Wells, Somerset.
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