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
- 1547 –Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1603 –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.
- 1693 –Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1868 –Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1920 –Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1961 –In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1994 –Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 2010 –Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Who were born on July 25?
- 1336 –Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
- 1421 –Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- 1894 –Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1929 –Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
- 1930 –Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
- 1963 –Julian Hodgson, English chess player
- 1966 –Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
- 1968 –Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer
- 1985 –James Lafferty, American actor
- 1986 –Givanildo Vieira de Souza, Brazilian footballer
Who died on July 25?
- 1409 –King Martin I of Sicily
- 1492 –Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
- 1826 –Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
- 1842 –Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
- 1861 –Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
- 1963 –Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
- 1988 –Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
- 2002 –Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2003 –John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
- 2008 –Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his “Last Lecture” (b. 1960)
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