About July 25
July 25, 2024 is the 207th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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What Happened On July 25
- 285 –Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
- 1261 –The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1536 –Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1547 –Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1567 –Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1722 –Dummer’s War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
- 1792 –The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1893 –The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- 1915 –RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- 1934 –The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1940 –General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1957 –The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- 1961 –In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1965 –Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 1978 –Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
- 1983 –Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1993 –Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
- 2000 –Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
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