July 25

Sunday 25, 2004:

Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th consecutive Tour de France.

Tuesday 25, 2000:

An Air France Concorde supersonic passenger jet crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.

Sunday 25, 1999:

Lance Armstrong wins first Tour de France.

Saturday 25, 1998:

The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service.

Friday 25, 1997:

K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalits caste to hold this office.

Monday 25, 1994:

Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.

Wednesday 25, 1990:

Comedian Roseanne Barr grabs her crotch and spits on the ground when performing the U.S. national anthem at a San Diego Padres game.

Tuesday 25, 1989:

Rock/Hip-hop trio The Beastie Boys release the classic Paul's Boutique.

Wednesday 25, 1984:

Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.

Tuesday 25, 1978:

The first so-called test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born.

Monday 25, 1977:

A supposed thunderbird is reported attacking a boy named Marlon Lowe.

Sunday 25, 1976:

The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach

Wednesday 25, 1973:

Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.

Friday 25, 1969:

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.

Sunday 25, 1965:

Newport Folk Festival: Bob Dylan goes electric.

Friday 25, 1958:

The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.

Wednesday 25, 1956:

45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51.

Friday 25, 1952:

Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

Thursday 25, 1946:

At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

Tuesday 25, 1944:

One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.

Sunday 25, 1943:

World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.

Wednesday 25, 1934:

Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.

Sunday 25, 1920:

Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.

Wednesday 25, 1917:

Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).

Sunday 25, 1909:

Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover in 37 minutes).

Saturday 25, 1908:

Ajinomoto is born. 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.

Thursday 25, 1907:

Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.

Monday 25, 1898:

The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at Guánica Bay.

Sunday 25, 1897:

Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

Wednesday 25, 1894:

The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

Sunday 25, 1869:

The Japanese daimy? begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869)

Saturday 25, 1868:

Wyoming becomes a United States territory.

Wednesday 25, 1866:

The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.

Thursday 25, 1861:

American Civil War: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

Monday 25, 1853:

Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.

Monday 25, 1814:

Reinforcements arrive near Niagara for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.

Thursday 25, 1799:

At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.

Tuesday 25, 1797:

Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain).

Wednesday 25, 1759:

French and Indian War: In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.

Tuesday 25, 1758:

French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.

Saturday 25, 1722:

Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border.

Sunday 25, 1593:

Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

Tuesday 25, 1567:

Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.

Friday 25, 1547:

Henry II (France) crowned

Monday 25, 1261:

The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.

Wednesday 25, 306:

Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

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