This Day in History for 25th July ◀ Jun July Aug ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 203 306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 864 - The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. 1139 - Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King 1215 - Frederick II (20) crowned king of the Romans 1261 - Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire. 1360 - Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia 1511 - Portugese assault on city Malakka attack 1519 - San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba 1521 - About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent 1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali. 1538 - The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil. King of France Henry IIKing of France Henry II 1547 - Henry II of France is crowned. 1564 - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor 1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. 1570 - Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army 1585 - Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics 1593 - Frances Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic faith 1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of English uniting kingdoms of England and Scotland King of Great Britain James I and VIKing of Great Britain James I and VI 1652 - Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church 1670 - Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna 1670 - Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth 1689 - France declares war on England 1693 - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México. 1722 - The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border. 1729 - North Carolina becomes a royal colony 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides in the last Jacobite Rebellion 1758 - Seven Years War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. 1759 - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years War) 1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta 1792 - Dutch patriots exiles finds Bataafs Legion 1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal Family harmed. 1795 - The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. British Naval Officer Horatio NelsonBritish Naval Officer Horatio Nelson 1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain). 1799 - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir 1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundys Lane); Americans defeat British 1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive 1822 - General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st Emperor of Mexico 1824 - Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua. 1832 - 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies 1835 - Ibrahim Pashas army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine 1st Emperor of Mexico Agustín de Iturbide1st Emperor of Mexico Agustín de Iturbide 1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. 1848 - 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian 1850 - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River) 1853 - Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as Robin Hood of El Dorado, is killed. 1860 - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales) 1861 - Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery 1861 - Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops 1863 - Skirmish at Barbees Crossroads, Virginia 1866 - 25th US Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wisconsin takes office 1866 - David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy US President & Union General Ulysses S. GrantUS President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant named 1st general of Army 1868 - US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho) 1871 - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa 1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. 1898 - 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay 1900 - Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match 1902 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title 1903 - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan. 1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. 1909 - Frances Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel 1912 - Comoros proclaimed a French colonies 1913 - Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game 1913 - Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies 1914 - Germany soc-democrat No German blood for Austrian tyrant 1914 - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66: he made 69 runs 1916 - Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks 1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a temporary measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). 1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif 1918 - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed) 1920 - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruths 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win 1922 - AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN) 1923 - German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1 1930 - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland Jazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke EllingtonJazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke Ellington 1933 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington 1934 - Failed nazi coup in Austria 1936 - 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx 1938 - Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany 1938 - Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) 1939 - 5th & last Dutch government of Colijn, forms 1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win 1940 - John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi River 1941 - FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan 1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) 1942 - German troops occupy Rostov 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1942 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja 1943 - 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley-class destroyer, launched 1943 - Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1943 - Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl 1943 - RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1944 - -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam 1944 - 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) 1944 - Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines) 1944 - US troop march into Guam 1944 - USAAF kills 136 and wounds 621 GIs at St-Lo 1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed. Italian Dictator Benito MussoliniItalian Dictator Benito Mussolini 1946 - US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion) 1946 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. 1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Department of Defense 1947 - US Department of Army created 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 211 975 - Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler 1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058) 1109 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85) 1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404) 1404 - Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant 1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461) 1517 - Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist 1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611) 1575 - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer 1579 - Valerius Otto, composer 1626 - Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian 1654 - Agostino Steffani, composer 1657 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer 1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703) 1683 - Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars) 1691 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini) 1715 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry) 1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806) 1761 - Charlotte von Kalb, German writer 1772 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer 1775 - Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841) 1780 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer 1786 - Giacomo Cordella, composer 1795 - James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army) 1797 - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889) 1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834) 1804 - Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education 1816 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition) 1822 - Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 1824 - Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899 1832 - Simon Hassler, composer 1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873) 1840 - Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution 1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916) 1848 - Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration) 1855 - Edward Solomon, composer 1860 - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917) 1865 - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator (Contact with Plants) 1866 - Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist 1867 - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit) 1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959) 1870 - Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders) 1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966) 1878 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer 1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942) 1883 - Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara) Paleoanthropologist Davidson BlackPaleoanthropologist Davidson Black (1884) 1884 - Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man) 1885 - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida) 1890 - Julian Rivero, SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express) 1890 - Tom OBrien, San Diego CA, actor (Physical Evidence) 1893 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy) 1895 - Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel) 1896 - Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy) 1896 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967) 1897 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer 1899 - Arthur Lubin, film director 1899 - Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz) 1900 - Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola) 1901 - Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat) 1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973) 1902 - Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer) 1903 - Andre Fleury, composer 1905 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981) 1905 - Lila Lee, Union City NJ, actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand) 1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990) 1907 - Jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2) 1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970) 1908 - Joseph Mitchell, writer 1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987) 1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003) 1913 - John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man) Actor and Sportsman Woody StrodeActor and Sportsman Woody Strode (1914) 1914 - Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream) 1915 - David Napley, solicitor 1916 - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P) 1916 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989) 1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990) 1918 - Nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Draculas Daughters) 1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986) 1919 - Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila) 1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958) 1921 - John Christopherson, artist/collector 1923 - Estelle Getty, New York City, New York, American actress (Golden Girls, The Golden Palace) Actress Estelle GettyActress Estelle Getty (1923) 1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007) 1924 - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81) 1925 - Alistair Taylor, cricketer (one Test as opening bat for S Afr 1956) 1925 - Jerry Paris, SF California, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show) 1926 - Teodor Grigoriu, composer 1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player 1927 - Midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti womans lib (Liberated Woman...) 1927 - Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown) 1927 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003) 1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000) 1928 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988) 1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader 1929 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995) 1930 - Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony) 1930 - Murray Chapple, cricketer (NZ Test batsman through the 1950s) 1930 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990) 1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer 1931 - Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 4 of 4 Inventor Charles BabbageInventor Charles Babbage (1814)1814 - Inventor Charles Babbage (21) weds Georgina Whitmore at St. Michaels Church in Devon, England 1839 - British PM William Gladstone (29) weds Catherine Glynne (27) in England 1993 - Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44) 2009 - Buffy The Vampire Slayer actor Marc Blucas (37) weds journalist Ryan Haddon (38) in Erie, Pennsylvania Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 2012 - Actress Sunny Mabrey (36) divorces Brotherhood actor Ethan Embry (34) due to irreconcilable differences after almost 7 years marriage Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 108 306 - Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies 1409 - King Martin I of Sicily 1471 - John Soreth, French general, dies 1492 - Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies 1539 - Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65 1564 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61 1570 - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed 1580 - Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47 1593 - Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61 1616 - Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies 1624 - Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61 1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584) 1675 - Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61 1676 - François Hédelin, abbé dAubignac, French writer (b. 1604) 1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631) 1721 - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66 1739 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73 1759 - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39 1759 - Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies 1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723) 1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723) 1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735) 1794 - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies 1804 - William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies 1814 - Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69 1826 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13] 1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795) Poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834) 1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61 1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766) 1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766) 1853 - Joaquin Murieta, Mexican born Californian outlaw 1857 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54 1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805) 1864 - Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 42 1865 - James Barry, military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor 1866 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies 1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808) 1911 - Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71 1912 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76 1918 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies 1918 - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47 1922 - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75 1927 - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies 1932 - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936] 1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis 1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889) 1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874) 1944 - Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo 1946 - Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies 1952 - Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43 1955 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62 1955 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55 1958 - Sensational Sherri Martel, womans wrestling champ (WWF) 1958 - Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81 1959 - Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71 1962 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879) 1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877) 1966 - Frank OHara, writer, dies at 40 1966 - Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies 1967 - W Gombrowicz, writer, dies at 62 1969 - Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75 1971 - Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74 1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882) 1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 79 1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938) 1981 - Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-ONeills), dies at 69 1982 - Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76 1982 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892) 1983 - Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69 1984 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913) 1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926) 1986 - Theodore H Ted Lyons, pitcher (Chicago White Sox), dies at 85 1986 - Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76 1987 - Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries 1989 - Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943) 1991 - Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70 1991 - Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies 1991 - Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61 1992 - Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78 1992 - Hope Miller, actress (Bwana Devil), dies of breast cancer at 63 1993 - Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday 1994 - John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67 1995 - Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62 1995 - Janice Elliott, novelist, dies at 63 1995 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89 1996 - Raymond OMalley, teacher, dies at 87 Golfer Ben HoganGolfer Ben Hogan (1997) 1997 - Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84 1997 - Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89 1997 - Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83 1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921) 2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917) 2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912) 2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950) 2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926) 2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928) 2006 - Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931) 2007 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952) 2007 - Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979) 2008 - Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his Last Lecture (b. 1960) 2008 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
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