{"id":106,"date":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/rogako\/one-day-like-this-july-25\/"},"modified":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","slug":"one-day-like-this-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/rogako\/one-day-like-this-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day Like This: July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  • 285 \u2013 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 306 \u2013 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 315 \u2013 The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine I\u2019s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 864 \u2013 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Viking.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1139 \u2013 Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1261 \u2013 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1536 \u2013 Sebasti\u00e1n de Belalc\u00e1zar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1538 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1547 \u2013 Henry II of France is crowned.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1554 \u2013 Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1567 \u2013 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1593 \u2013 Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1603 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1609 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1693 \u2013 Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Mexico.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1722 \u2013 Dummer\u2019s War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1755 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1758 \u2013 Seven Years\u2019 War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1759 \u2013 French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouill\u00e9.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1783 \u2013 American Revolutionary War: The war\u2019s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1788 \u2013 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1792 \u2013 The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris, France promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1795 \u2013 The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1797 \u2013 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1799 \u2013 At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1814 \u2013 War of 1812: Battle of Lundy\u2019s Lane \u2013 reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall\u2019s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown\u2019s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1824 \u2013 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1837 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1853 \u2013 Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as \u201cRobin Hood of El Dorado\u201d, is killed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1861 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1866 \u2013 The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1868 \u2013 Wyoming becomes a United States territory.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1869 \u2013 The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1893 \u2013 The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1894 \u2013 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1898 \u2013 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 Gu\u00e1nica, Puerto Rico.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1908 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1909 \u2013 Louis Bl\u00e9riot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1915 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1917 \u2013 Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a \u201ctemporary\u201d measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1920 \u2013 Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1920 \u2013 France captures Damascus.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1925 \u2013 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1934 \u2013 The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1940 \u2013 General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1942 \u2013 Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1943 \u2013 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1944 \u2013 World War II: Operation Spring \u2013 one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1946 \u2013 Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1946 \u2013 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1952 \u2013 The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1956 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1957 \u2013 The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1958 \u2013 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1959 \u2013 SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over 2 hours.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1961 \u2013 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1965 \u2013 Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1969 \u2013 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 \u201cVietnamization\u201d of the war.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1973 \u2013 Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1976 \u2013 Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1978 \u2013 Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1978 \u2013 Louise Brown, the world\u2019s first \u201ctest tube baby\u201d is born.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1979 \u2013 Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1983 \u2013 Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1984 \u2013 Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1993 \u2013 Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1993 \u2013 The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1994 \u2013 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1995 \u2013 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1996 \u2013 In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2000 \u2013 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2007 \u2013 Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India\u2019s first female president.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2010 \u2013 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    Births<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    • 1016 \u2013 Casimir I the Restorer, Polish Duke (d. 1058)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1336 \u2013 Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1404 \u2013 Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1421 \u2013 Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1562 \u2013 Kat\u014d Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1654 \u2013 Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1657 \u2013 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1658 \u2013 Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll (d. 1703)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1683 \u2013 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1756)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1711 \u2013 Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and writer (d. 1778)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1750 \u2013 Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1753 \u2013 Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French navy officer (d. 1810)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1797 \u2013 Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1799 \u2013 David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1832 \u2013 Augustus Clifford, English navy officer (d. 1877)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1839 \u2013 Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1844 \u2013 Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1848 \u2013 Arthur Balfour, English politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1860 \u2013 Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (d. 1917)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1867 \u2013 Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1867 \u2013 Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1870 \u2013 Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1875 \u2013 Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, conservationist, and author (d. 1955)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1882 \u2013 George S. Rentz, American navy Chaplain, recipient of the Navy Cross (d. 1942)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1883 \u2013 Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1886 \u2013 Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish hunter and writer (d. 1946)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1894 \u2013 Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1894 \u2013 Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1895 \u2013 Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1895 \u2013 Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (d. 1968)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1896 \u2013 Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1901 \u2013 Ruth Krauss, American author (d. 1993)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1901 \u2013 Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1902 \u2013 Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1905 \u2013 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1905 \u2013 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English writer and illustrator (d. 1990)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1907 \u2013 Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1908 \u2013 Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1908 \u2013 Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1908 \u2013 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (d. 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1914 \u2013 Woody Strode, American actor and athlete (d. 1994)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1915 \u2013 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1916 \u2013 Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (d. 1989)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1917 \u2013 Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1918 \u2013 Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1920 \u2013 Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1920 \u2013 Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1921 \u2013 Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1923 \u2013 Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1923 \u2013 Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1924 \u2013 Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1924 \u2013 Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 2004)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1925 \u2013 Benny Benjamin, American drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1925 \u2013 Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1926 \u2013 Whitey Lockman, American baseball player(d. 2009)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1927 \u2013 Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1927 \u2013 Midge Decter, American journalist and author<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1927 \u2013 Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1927 \u2013 Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (d. 1982)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1928 \u2013 Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor (d. 2012)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1928 \u2013 Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1928 \u2013 Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1929 \u2013 Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1929 \u2013 Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1930 \u2013 Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1930 \u2013 Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer (d. 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1930 \u2013 Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian writer (d. 1990)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1930 \u2013 Annie Ross, English singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1932 \u2013 Paul J. Weitz, American pilot and astronaut<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1934 \u2013 Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1934 \u2013 Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1935 \u2013 Barbara Harris, American actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1935 \u2013 Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian arms-dealer and businessman<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1935 \u2013 John Robinson, American football coach<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1935 \u2013 Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1935 \u2013 Lars Werner, Swedish politician<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1936 \u2013 Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1936 \u2013 Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1937 \u2013 Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archeologist<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1941 \u2013 Manny Charlton, Spanish-Scottish guitarist (Nazareth and Manny Charlton Band)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1941 \u2013 Peter Suschitzky, Polish-English cinematographer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1941 \u2013 Nate Thurmond, American basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1941 \u2013 Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1942 \u2013 Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Seekers)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1943 \u2013 Jim McCarty, English singer and musician (The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Illusion)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1943 \u2013 Erika Steinbach, German politician<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1945 \u2013 Donna Theodore, American actress and singer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1946 \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Areas, Nicaraguan musician (Santana)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1946 \u2013 John Gibson, American radio host<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1946 \u2013 Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer (I Threes)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1948 \u2013 Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1950 \u2013 Mark Clarke, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Colosseum, Natural Gas, and Uriah Heep)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1951 \u2013 Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1951 \u2013 Verdine White, American bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1952 \u2013 Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1953 \u2013 Robert Zoellick, American politician<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1954 \u2013 Lynne Frederick, English actress (d. 1994)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1954 \u2013 Ken Greer, Canadian musician and producer (Red Rider)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1954 \u2013 Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1954 \u2013 Jochem Ziegert, German footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1955 \u2013 Iman], Somali model and actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1955 \u2013 Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter (Pylon) (d. 2009)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1955 \u2013 Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1955 \u2013 Tom McCamus, Canadian actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1956 \u2013 Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1957 \u2013 Steve Podborski, Canadian skier<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1958 \u2013 Alexei Filippenko, American astrophysicist and educator<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1958 \u2013 Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, The Coachmen, and Dim Stars)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1959 \u2013 Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial Killer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1960 \u2013 Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1961 \u2013 Bobbie Eakes, American actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1961 \u2013 Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1961 \u2013 Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1962 \u2013 Doug Drabek, American baseball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1963 \u2013 Denis Coderre, Canadian politician<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1963 \u2013 Julian Hodgson, English chess player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1964 \u2013 Breuk Iversen, American designer and writer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1965 \u2013 Marty Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1965 \u2013 Illeana Douglas, American actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1966 \u2013 Maureen Herman, American bass player (Babes in Toyland)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1966 \u2013 Lynda Lemay, Canadian singer-songwriter<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1966 \u2013 Christine Quinn, American politician<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1967 \u2013 Matt LeBlanc, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1967 \u2013 Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1967 \u2013 Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1968 \u2013 Rudi Bryson, South African cricketer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1968 \u2013 Shi Tao, Chinese journalist<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1969 \u2013 Jon Barry, American basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1971 \u2013 Chlo\u00eb Annett, English actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1971 \u2013 Roger Creager, American singer-songwriter<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1971 \u2013 Tracy Murray, American basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1971 \u2013 Billy Wagner, American baseball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1973 \u2013 David Denman, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1973 \u2013 Dani Filth, English singer-songwriter, actor, and author (Cradle of Filth)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1973 \u2013 Hu Jia, Chinese activist and dissident<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1973 \u2013 Mur Lafferty, American pod-caster and writer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1973 \u2013 Kevin Phillips, English footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1973 \u2013 Michael C. Williams, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1974 \u2013 Jay R. Ferguson, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1974 \u2013 Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese wrestler<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1975 \u2013 Jody Craddock, English footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1975 \u2013 Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1976 \u2013 Tera Patrick, American porn actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1976 \u2013 Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1976 \u2013 Javier V\u00e1zquez, Puerto Rican baseball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1977 \u2013 Ahmad Batebi, Iranian activist<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1977 \u2013 Kenny Thomas, American basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1978 \u2013 Louise Brown, English test tube baby<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1978 \u2013 Gerard Warren, American football player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1979 \u2013 Amy Adams, American singer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1979 \u2013 Ali Carter, English snooker player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1980 \u2013 Shawn Riggans, American baseball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1980 \u2013 Toni Vilander, Finnish race car driver<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1980 \u2013 Scott Waldrom, New Zealand rugby player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1981 \u2013 Conor Casey, American soccer player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1981 \u2013 Constantinos Charalambidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1981 \u2013 Mac Lethal, American rapper and producer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1981 \u2013 Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1982 \u2013 Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1982 \u2013 Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1983 \u2013 Nenad Krsti\u0107, Serbian basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1984 \u2013 Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1985 \u2013 Kitty Brucknell, English singer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1985 \u2013 James Lafferty, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1985 \u2013 Jasmine Lennard, English model<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1985 \u2013 Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1985 \u2013 Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1986 \u2013 Hulk, Brazilian footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1986 \u2013 Abraham Gneki Gui\u00e9, Ivorian footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1986 \u2013 Barbara Meier, German model<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1986 \u2013 Ahtyba Rubin, American football player<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1987 \u2013 Michael Welch, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1988 \u2013 Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer and actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1988 \u2013 Heather Marks, Canadian model<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1988 \u2013 Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1989 \u2013 Noel Callahan, Canadian actor<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1990 \u2013 Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 1992 \u2013 Lil Phat, American rapper (d. 2012)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2000 \u2013 Preston Bailey, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
      \n

      Deaths<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

      \n
        \n
      • 306 \u2013 Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1409 \u2013 King Martin I of Sicily(b. 1374\/1376)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1471 \u2013 Thomas \u00e0 Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1472 \u2013 Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1492 \u2013 Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1572 \u2013 Isaac Luria, Jewish mystic (b. 1534)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1616 \u2013 Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1643 \u2013 Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1676 \u2013 Fran\u00e7ois H\u00e9delin, abb\u00e9 d\u2019Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1681 \u2013 Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1790 \u2013 Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1790 \u2013 William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1791 \u2013 Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1794 \u2013 Andr\u00e9 Ch\u00e9nier, French writer (b. 1762)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1826 \u2013 Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1834 \u2013 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1842 \u2013 Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1843 \u2013 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1853 \u2013 Joaquin Murrieta, California outlaw (b. 1829)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1861 \u2013 Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1865 \u2013 \u201cJames Barry\u201d, military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor (b. 1789\/1799)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1866 \u2013 Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1887 \u2013 John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1934 \u2013 Fran\u00e7ois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1934 \u2013 Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1952 \u2013 Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1959 \u2013 Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (b. 1888)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1962 \u2013 Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1963 \u2013 Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1967 \u2013 Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1971 \u2013 Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1973 \u2013 Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1980 \u2013 Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1982 \u2013 Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1984 \u2013 Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1984 \u2013 Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1986 \u2013 Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1988 \u2013 Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1989 \u2013 Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1992 \u2013 Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1995 \u2013 Charlie Rich, American rock\/soul\/country musician (b. 1932)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1997 \u2013 Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1998 \u2013 Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 1998 \u2013 Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman (b. 1910)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2000 \u2013 Rudi Fa\u00dfnacht, German football manager (b. 1934)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2002 \u2013 Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2003 \u2013 Ludwig B\u00f6lkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2003 \u2013 Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2003 \u2013 John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2004 \u2013 John Passmore, Australian philosopher (b. 1914)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2005 \u2013 Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2006 \u2013 Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2006 \u2013 Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (b. 1928)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2007 \u2013 Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2007 \u2013 Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2008 \u2013 Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his \u201cLast Lecture\u201d (b. 1960)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2008 \u2013 Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2008 \u2013 Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2009 \u2013 Harry Patch, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1898)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2009 \u2013 Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2009 \u2013 Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2009 \u2013 Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2010 \u2013 Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2011 \u2013 Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
        \n

        Holidays and Observances<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

        \n
          \n
        • Christian Feast Day:<\/span><\/li>\n
            \n
          • Anne (Eastern Christianity)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Christopher (Western Christianity)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Cucuphas<\/span><\/li>\n
          • James the Great (Western Christianity)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Julian of Le Mans (translation)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          • Commonwealth Constitution Day, formerly Occupation Day. (Puerto Rico)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Ebernoe Horn Fair (Sussex, southern England)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Furrinalia (Roman Empire)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap\u2019a<\/span><\/li>\n
          • National Day of Galicia (Galicia)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Republic Day (Tunisia)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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