On This Day: Friday July 25, 2014 Holidays Feast day of St. Christopher, Saints Thea, Valentina and Paul, St. James the Greater, and St. Magnericus. Spain: St. James Day. Costa Rica: Guanacaste Day. Puerto Rico: Constitution Day. Tunisia: Republic Day. Events 1832 - The first recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurred, on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts. 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. 1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory. 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico. 1909 - Louis Bleriot first crossed the English Channel in an airplane. 1917 - Margaretha Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death. 1943 - Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as Dictator of Italy, bringing an end to the Fascist regime. 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. 1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm, 45 miles south of Nantucket Island; 51 people died. 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; shed been conceived through in-vitro fertilization. 1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. 2000 - A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground. 2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth Tour de France bicycle race, in an amazing comeback after his bout with cancer. 2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as Indias first woman president. 2007 - Jeremy Clarkson and James May become the first people to reach the magnetic North Pole in a car. Births 1844 - Thomas Eakins, American painter. 1937 - Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist. 1954 - Walter Payton, American football player. 1958 - Thurston Moore, American musician. 1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor. Deaths 1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor. 1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada. 1997 - Ben Hogan, American golfer. 2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director.
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