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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