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 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

  • 1567
    Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
  • 1797
    Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
  • 1799
    At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
  • 1853
    Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
  • 1893
    The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
  • 1909
    Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
  • 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.
  • 1965
    Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
  • 1979
    Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
  • 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.

Who were born on July 25?

  • 1905
    Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
  • 1918
    Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
  • 1924
    Scotch Taylor, Former South African cricketer (d. 2004)
  • 1926
    Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
  • 1965
    Marty Brown (singer), country singer
  • 1980
    Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
  • 1981
    Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
  • 1987
    Michael Welch, American actor
  • 1988
    Heather Marks, Canadian model
  • 2000
    Preston Bailey, American actor--

Who died on July 25?

  • 306
    Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
  • 1643
    Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
  • 1790
    Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
  • 1794
    André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
  • 1843
    Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
  • 1866
    Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)
  • 1989
    Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
  • 1998
    Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
  • 2006
    Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
  • 2009
    Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)

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