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What happened in history on this day: July 25?
On July 25 in ...
- 1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta.
- 1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British.
- 1832 - First railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachusetts; one person dies.
- 1866 - Ulysses Grant is named first general of the Army.
- 1868 - Territory of Wyoming is created in the USA.
- 1871 - Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, in Davenport, Iowa, USA.
- 1898 - First US troops land and occupy Puerto Rico, at Guanica Bay.
- 1916 - Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks.
- 1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as district attorney of California, USA.
- 1918 - Race riot in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA (three blacks and two whites killed).
- 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.
- 1944 - In France, the U.S. 1st Army breaks through enemy positions near St. Lô.
- 1946 - US detonates underwater atomic bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion).
- 1947 - US Air Force, Navy and War Departments form US Department of Defense.
- 1947 - US Department of the Army created.
- 1952 - Puerto Rico officially becomes a U.S commonwealth.
- 1953 - New York City Transit Authority raises transit fare from 10 to 15 cents, and debuts transit tokens.
- 1956 - (11:20 PM) Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria (29,000 tons) collides with Swedish-American Line steamship M.S. Stockholm (12,600 tons) in the North Atlantic, off the coast of Nantucket, USA. The Andrea Doria is struck midship; the Stockholm loses a portion of its bow, with the loss of five lives.
- 1963 - US, Russia, and England sign nuclear test ban treaty.
- 1964 - Race riot in Rochester, New York, USA.
- 1969 - 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival, Washington State.
- 1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40-year syphilis experiment.
- 1975 - A Chorus Line, longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres.
- 1978 - Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush.
- 1983 - First nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio, Texas.
- 1983 - Washington Public Power Supply System defaults on US$2.25 billion loan.
- 1990 - US Ambassador tells Iraq US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute.
- 1991 - The US Treasury and the Federal Reserve introduce two anti-counterfeiting features to 1990 $100 Federal Reserve Notes: a clear polyester security thread with "USA100" printed repeatedly on it, and continuous microprinting of "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" around the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
- 1998 - The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service.
- 2010 - Wikileaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
Births on July 25
- 1899 - Birth of Ralph Dumke in Indiana, USA; actor (Movieland Quiz).
- 1908 - Birth of Jack Gilford AKA Yankel Gellman in New York City, New York, USA; character actor (Cracker Jacks commercials (1960-1972), Soap TV show, The Duck Factory, Apple Pie, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, David Frost Revue, Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2).
- 1923 - Birth of Estelle Sher AKA Estelle Getty in New York City, New York, USA; American actor (Sophia Petrillo - The Golden Girls).
- 1925 - Birth of Jerry Paris in San Francisco, California, USA; director/actor (Jerry - Dick Van Dyke Show).
- 1927 - Birth of Midge Decter in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...).
- 1932 - Birth of Paul J Weitz in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA; astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6).
- 1934 - Birth of Don Ellis in Los Angeles, California, USA; jazz musician and composer (The French Connection movie score (1973)).
- 1943 - Birth of Janet Margolin in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Take the Money and Run, David and Lisa).
- 1948 - Birth of Steve Goodman in Chicago, Illinois, USA; singer/songwriter ("Somebody Elses Trouble").
- 1961 - Birth of Katherine Kelly Lang in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Brooke - The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1975 - Birth of Jay R Ferguson Junior in Dallas, Texas; actor (Taylor Newton - Evening Shade).
Deaths on July 25
- 1984 - Death of Willie Mae Thornton at age 57 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, USA; blues singer ("Hound Dog" (1953)).
- 1987 - Malcolm Baldrige, US Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries.
- 1992 - Death of Alfred Drake at age 77 in New York, USA; actor and singer (Oklahoma! (1943), Kismet (1954 Tony Award)).
- 1995 - Death of Charlie Rich at age 62 from a blood clot in the lung in Hammond, Louisiana, USA; country singer ("Behind Closed Doors" (1973, Grammy award), "Lonely Weekends", "The Most Beautiful Girl").
- 2003 - Death of Erik Braunn ar age 52 of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, California, USA; lead guitarist (Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968)), songwriter, musician, producer.
- 2016 - Death of Dwight Jones, American basketball player (born 1952).
- 2016 - Death of Tim LaHaye, American evangelist and author (born 1926).
- 2022 - Death of Paul Sorvino at age 83 of natural causes at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Italian American actor (That Championship Season Broadway play (1972), Reds movie (1981), Henry Kissinger - Nixon (1981), Lord Capulet - Romeo + Juliet movie (1996), Sergeant Phil Cerreta - Law & Order TV show, Paulie Cicero - Goodfellas movie), opera singer, sculptor, author.
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