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What happend on 25. July in History
In our data base we found 350 events happened on 25. July:
• 285: Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. [category: Events]
• 306: Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (b. 250) [category: Deaths]
• 306: Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. [category: Events]
• 315: The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. [category: Events]
• 864: The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Viking. [category: Events]
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• 1016: Casimir I the Restorer, Polish Duke (d. 1058) [category: Births]
• 1139: Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques. [category: Events]
• 1261: The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. [category: Events]
• 1336: Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404) [category: Births]
• 1404: Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430) [category: Births]
• 1409: Martin I of Sicily (b. 1376) [category: Deaths]
• 1421: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461) [category: Births]
• 1471: Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380) [category: Deaths]
• 1472: Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432) [category: Deaths]
• 1536: Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1547: Henry II of France is crowned. [category: Events]
• 1554: Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral [category: Events]
• 1562: Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611) [category: Births]
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• 1567: Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. [category: Events]
• 1572: Isaac Luria, Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534) [category: Deaths]
• 1593: Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. [category: Events]
• 1603: James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707. [category: Events]
• 1608: Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (b. 1556) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1616: Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550) [category: Deaths]
• 1643: Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584) [category: Deaths]
• 1654: Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728) [category: Births]
• 1657: Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714) [category: Births]
• 1658: Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll (d. 1703) [category: Births]
• 1676: François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604) [category: Deaths]
• 1681: Urian Oakes, English-American minister and educator (b. 1631) [category: Deaths]
• 1683: Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1756) [category: Births]
• 1693: Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1711: Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and writer (d. 1778) [category: Births]
• 1722: Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border. [category: Events]
• 1750: Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1753: Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French navy officer (d. 1810) [category: Births]
• 1755: British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick. [category: Events]
• 1759: French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé. [category: Events]
• 1783: American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement. [category: Events]
• 1788: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550). [category: Events]
• 1790: Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer, writer, and educator (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1790: William Livingston, American politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1791: Isaac Low, American politician (b. 1735) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris, France promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed. [category: Events]
• 1794: André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762) [category: Deaths]
• 1795: The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. [category: Events]
• 1797: Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1797: Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain). [category: Events]
• 1799: David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834) [category: Births]
• 1799: At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1824: Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua. [category: Events]
• 1826: Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1832: Augustus Clifford, English navy officer (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772) [category: Deaths]
• 1837: The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. [category: Events]
• 1839: Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1842: Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766) [category: Deaths]
• 1843: Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766) [category: Deaths]
• 1844: Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1848: Arthur Balfour, English politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1853: Joaquin Murrieta, Mexican outlaw (b. 1829) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. [category: Events]
• 1860: Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1861: Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1861: American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. [category: Events]
• 1865: James Barry, English surgeon (b. 1799) [category: Deaths]
• 1866: Floride Calhoun, American wife of John C. Calhoun (b. 1792) [category: Deaths]
• 1866: The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank. [category: Events]
• 1867: Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1867: Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1868: Wyoming becomes a United States territory. [category: Events]
• 1869: The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869). [category: Events]
• 1870: Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1875: Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, conservationist, and author (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1882: George S. Rentz, American navy captain, recipient of the Navy Cross (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1883: Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1886: Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish hunter and writer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1886: Edward Cummins, American golfer (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1887: John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1894: Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1894: Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1894: The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. [category: Events]
• 1895: Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1895: Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1896: Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1898: After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico. [category: Events]
• 1901: Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1901: Ruth Krauss, American author (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1902: Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1905: Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English writer and illustrator (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1905: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1907: Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1908: Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1908: Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1908: Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1908: Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. [category: Events]
• 1909: Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. [category: Events]
• 1914: Woody Strode, American actor and athlete (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1915: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1916: Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1917: Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1917: Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). [category: Events]
• 1918: Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1920: Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1920: Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1920: France captures Damascus. [category: Events]
• 1920: Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place. [category: Events]
• 1921: Adolph Herseth, American trumpet player (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) [category: Births]
• 1921: Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1923: Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1923: Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1924: Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1924: Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1925: Benny Benjamin, American drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1925: Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1925: Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. [category: Events]
• 1926: Whitey Lockman, American baseball player(d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1927: Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1927: Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1927: Midge Decter, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1927: Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1928: Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1928: Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1928: Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1929: Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1929: Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician [category: Births]
• 1930: Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian writer (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1930: Annie Ross, English singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) [category: Births]
• 1930: Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1930: Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1932: Paul J. Weitz, American pilot and astronaut [category: Births]
• 1934: Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1934: Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1934: Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty, Inc. (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. [category: Events]
• 1935: Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian arms-dealer and businessman [category: Births]
• 1935: Barbara Harris, American actress [category: Births]
• 1935: John Robinson, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1935: Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1935: Lars Werner, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1936: Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1936: Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect [category: Births]
• 1937: Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archeologist [category: Births]
• 1940: General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal. [category: Events]
• 1941: Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1941: Manny Charlton, Spanish-Scottish guitarist (Nazareth and Manny Charlton Band) [category: Births]
• 1941: Nate Thurmond, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1941: Peter Suschitzky, Polish-English cinematographer [category: Births]
• 1942: Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Seekers) [category: Births]
• 1942: Fred Englehardt, American athlete (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis. [category: Events]
• 1943: Erika Steinbach, German politician [category: Births]
• 1943: Jim McCarty, English singer and musician (The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Illusion) [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1945: Donna Theodore, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1946: John Gibson, American radio host [category: Births]
• 1946: José Areas, Nicaraguan musician (Santana) [category: Births]
• 1946: Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer (I Threes) [category: Births]
• 1946: At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. [category: Events]
• 1946: Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. [category: Events]
• 1948: Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1950: Mark Clarke, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Colosseum, Natural Gas, and Uriah Heep) [category: Births]
• 1951: Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist [category: Births]
• 1951: Verdine White, American bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire) [category: Births]
• 1952: Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect [category: Births]
• 1952: Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution. [category: Events]
• 1953: Robert Zoellick, American politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Jochem Ziegert, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1954: Ken Greer, Canadian musician and producer (Red Rider) [category: Births]
• 1954: Lynne Frederick, English actress (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1954: Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1955: Iman], Somali model and actress [category: Births]
• 1955: Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder [category: Births]
• 1955: Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter (Pylon) (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1955: Tom McCamus, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1957: Steve Podborski, Canadian skier [category: Births]
• 1957: The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed. [category: Events]
• 1958: Alexei Filippenko, American astrophysicist and educator [category: Births]
• 1958: Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, The Coachmen, and Dim Stars) [category: Births]
• 1958: The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. [category: Events]
• 1959: Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial Killer [category: Births]
• 1959: Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish rabbi (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over 2 hours. [category: Events]
• 1960: Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player [category: Births]
• 1961: Bobbie Eakes, American actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security [category: Births]
• 1961: Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress [category: Births]
• 1961: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. [category: Events]
• 1962: Carin Bakkum, Dutch tennis player [category: Births]
• 1962: Doug Drabek, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1962: Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Denis Coderre, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1963: Julian Hodgson, English chess player [category: Births]
• 1963: Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Breuk Iversen, American designer and writer [category: Births]
• 1965: Illeana Douglas, American actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Marty Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1965: Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. [category: Events]
• 1966: Christine Quinn, American politician [category: Births]
• 1966: Lynda Lemay, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1966: Maureen Herman, American bass player (Babes in Toyland) [category: Births]
• 1967: Matt LeBlanc, American actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee [category: Births]
• 1967: Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Rudi Bryson, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1968: Shi Tao, Chinese journalist [category: Births]
• 1969: Vietnam War: U.S. 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 is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. [category: Events]
• 1971: Billy Wagner, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Chloë Annett, English actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Roger Creager, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1971: Tracy Murray, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: John Meyers, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Dani Filth, English singer-songwriter, actor, and author (Cradle of Filth) [category: Births]
• 1973: David Denman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1973: Hu Jia, Chinese activist and dissident [category: Births]
• 1973: Kevin Phillips, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Michael C. Williams, American actor [category: Births]
• 1973: Mur Lafferty, American pod-caster and writer [category: Births]
• 1973: Louis St. Laurent, Canadian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched. [category: Events]
• 1974: Jay R. Ferguson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1975: Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Jody Craddock, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet [category: Births]
• 1976: Tera Patrick, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo. [category: Events]
• 1977: Ahmad Batebi, Iranian activist [category: Births]
• 1977: Kenny Thomas, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Gerard Warren, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Louise Brown, English test tube baby [category: Births]
• 1978: Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born. [category: Events]
• 1978: Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders. [category: Events]
• 1979: Ali Carter, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1979: Amy Adams, American singer [category: Births]
• 1979: Juan Pablo Di Pace, Argentine actor, model, and director [category: Births]
• 1979: Peter Brame, English singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1979: Stefanie Hertel, German yodeler [category: Births]
• 1979: Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt. [category: Events]
• 1980: David Wachs, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Scott Waldrom, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1980: Shawn Riggans, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Soo Ae, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Toni Vilander, Finnish race car driver [category: Births]
• 1980: Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Conor Casey, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1981: Constantinos Charalambidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1981: Mac Lethal, American rapper and producer [category: Births]
• 1981: Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1982: Jason Dundas, Australian television host and actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1982: Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Nenad Krstić, Serbian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Richie Chance, American actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1983: Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. [category: Events]
• 1984: Lauriane Gilliéron, Swiss model, Miss Switzerland 2005 [category: Births]
• 1984: Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. [category: Events]
• 1985: Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: James Lafferty, American actor [category: Births]
• 1985: Jasmine Lennard, English model [category: Births]
• 1985: Kitty Brucknell, English singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1985: Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1986: Abraham Gneki Guié, Ivorian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Ahtyba Rubin, American football player [category: Births]
• 1986: Barbara Meier, German model [category: Births]
• 1986: Hulk, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jessi Malay, American singer (No Secrets) [category: Births]
• 1986: Sumela Kay, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Michael Welch, American actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Heather Marks, Canadian model [category: Births]
• 1988: Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Andrew Caldwell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Noel Callahan, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Steve Rubell, American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War. [category: Events]
• 1993: The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. [category: Events]
• 1994: Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948. [category: Events]
• 1995: Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. [category: Events]
• 1996: In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. [category: Events]
• 1997: Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Tal Farlow, American guitarist (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Preston Bailey, American actor [category: Births]
• 2000: Rudi Faßnacht, German football coach and manager (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2002: Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Erik Brann, American singer and guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: John Schlesinger, English director (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: John Passmore, Australian philosopher (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Carl Brashear, American navy officer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Ezra Fleischer, Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bernd Jakubowski, German footballer (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jesse Marunde, American strongman (b. 1979) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first female president. [category: Events]
• 2008: Jeff Fehring, Australian footballer (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Tracy Hall, American chemist (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Alexis Cohen, American singer (b. 1984) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Harry Patch, English soldier and super-centenarian (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Vernon Forrest, American boxer (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Redford White, Filipino comedian and actor (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. [category: Events]
• 2011: Michael Cacoyannis, Greek director (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Greg Mohns, Canadian football coach (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Shelby Harris, American super-centenarian (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Susanne Lothar, German actress (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• _: Anne (Eastern Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christopher (Western Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Commonwealth Constitution Day, formerly Occupation Day. (Puerto Rico) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cucuphas [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ebernoe Horn Fair (Sussex, southern England) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Furrinalia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap'a [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: James the Great (Western Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Julian of Le Mans (translation) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day of Galicia (Galicia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Republic Day (Tunisia) [category: Holidays and observances]