Calendar Day of Week for July 25th. It's the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for July 25th
Year 41 » After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate or Senate.
Year 750 Calendar » In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
Year 1348 Calendar » A 1348 Friuli earthquake called strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
Year 1494 Calendar » Alfonso II of Naples called Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
Year 1515 Calendar » Coronation of the French monarch e.g Coronation of Francis I of France.
Year 1533 Calendar » Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
Year 1554 Calendar » Founding of São Paulo (city) or São Paulo city, Brazil.
Year 1573 Calendar » Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Year 1575 Calendar » Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
Year 1704 Calendar » The Apalachee massacre called Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
Year 1755 Calendar » Moscow State University known as Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
Year 1765 Calendar » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
Year 1791 Calendar » The Parliament of Great Britain British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec (1763–1791) Province of Quebec into Upper Canada Upper and Lower Canada.
Year 1881 Calendar » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
Year 1890 Calendar » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
Year 1915 Calendar » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas A. Watson or Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
Year 1918 Calendar » Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
Year 1924 Calendar » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the France called French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
Year 1932 Calendar » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Republic of China known as Chinese National Revolutionary Army Defense of Harbin known as begins its defense of Harbin.
Year 1937 Calendar » 'The Guiding Light' debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
Year 1941 Calendar » Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
Year 1944 Calendar » Florence Li Tim-Oi is ordained in China, becoming the first woman Anglican priest.
Year 1946 Calendar » The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
Year 1947 Calendar » Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. or Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
Year 1949 Calendar » At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
Year 1955 Calendar » The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.
Year 1960 Calendar » The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
Year 1961 Calendar » In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live President of the United States e.g presidential television news conference.
Year 1969 Calendar » Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the Brazilian military government named military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.
Year 1971 Calendar » Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
Year 1979 Calendar » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
Year 1981 Calendar » Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
Year 1986 Calendar » The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
Year 1993 Calendar » 1993 CIA shootings called Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
Year 1994 Calendar » The Clementine mission called Clementine space probe launches.
Year 1995 Calendar » The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear weapon nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant (rocket) Black Brant XII, a Norway Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
Year 1996 Calendar » Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
Year 1998 Calendar » During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
Year 1999 Calendar » A 6.0 Richter magnitude scale e.g Richter scale 1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake known as earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
Year 2003 Calendar » 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to Human shield action to Iraq serve as human shields, intending to prevent the United States U.S.-led coalition of the willing coalition troops from bombing certain locati
Year 2004 Calendar » Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
Year 2005 Calendar » A Mandher Devi temple stampede e.g stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
Year 2006 Calendar » Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
Year 2006 » Mexico Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killer serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
Year 2013 Calendar » At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a 2013 Uribana prison riot named prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
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