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 206th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 12, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 487,056 hours 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 ‘dihectahexagon’ day.
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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 207 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 4,599 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 25 Historical Events
- 1139 –Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.
- 1547 –Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1554 –Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral
- 1693 –Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
- 1788 –Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1792 –The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1824 –Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1920 –Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1946 –At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
Who were born on July 25?
- 1934 –Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
- 1946 –José Areas, Nicaraguan percussionist
- 1955 –Tom McCamus, Canadian actor
- 1958 –Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
- 1961 –Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
- 1967 –Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- 1968 –Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer
- 1980 –Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
- 1982 –Norbert Lemcke, German footballer
- 1984 –Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
Who died on July 25?
- 1409 –King Martin I of Sicily
- 1616 –Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
- 1834 –Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
- 1866 –Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)
- 1984 –Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
- 1986 –Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
- 1988 –Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
- 1995 –Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)
- 2007 –Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
- 2009 –Harry Patch, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1898)
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