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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 188 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 25
- 315 –The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
- 864 –The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
- 1609 –The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- 1795 –The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1814 –War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
- 1894 –The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 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.
- 1917 –Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1920 –Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1925 –Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1943 –World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 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.
- 1946 –At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- 1956 –45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- 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.
- 1978 –The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs.
- 1996 –In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 2010 –Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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