What happened this day in history July 25

What are the important events that happened on July 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 25 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 12, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,697,760 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,234 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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July 25 Historical Events

  • 1536
    Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
  • 1795
    The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
  • 1894
    The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
  • 1908
    Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • 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.
  • 1983
    Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
  • 1984
    Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
  • 1993
    Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
  • 1996
    In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
  • 2007
    Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.

Who were born on July 25?

  • 1839
    Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
  • 1883
    Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
  • 1914
    Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994)
  • 1935
    John Robinson, American football coach
  • 1941
    Manny Charlton, rock guitarist
  • 1951
    Jack Thompson, American activist and former lawyer
  • 1971
    Chloë Annett, British actress
  • 1973
    Michael C. Williams, American actor
  • 1979
    Amy Adams, American singer
  • 1988
    Sarah Geronimo, Filipina actress and singer

Who died on July 25?

  • 306
    Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
  • 1790
    Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
  • 1843
    Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
  • 1967
    Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)
  • 1982
    Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
  • 1988
    Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
  • 1992
    Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
  • 2003
    John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
  • 2005
    Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
  • 2009
    Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)

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