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This Date in History - July 25th
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* 285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
* 306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
* 1139 Battle of Ourique: The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of Leσn declared after the Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques. He then becomes Afonso I, King of Portugal, after calling the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he is given the Crown from the Bishop of Braganηa, to confirm the independence.
* 1261 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
* 1536 Sebastiαn de Belalcαzar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
* 1538 The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
* 1547 Henry II of France is crowned.
* 1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
* 1593 Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
* 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 Leσn, Mιxico.
* 1722 Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
* 1755 British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
* 1758 Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
* 1759 French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillι.
* 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.
* 1795 The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
* 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.
* 1814 War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
* 1824 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
* 1837 The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
* 1853 Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
* 1861 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
* 1866 The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
* 1868 Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
* 1869 The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
* 1894 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
* 1898 The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guαnica, Puerto Rico (The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898).
* 1907 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
* 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.
* 1909 Louis Blιriot 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.
* 1917 Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
* 1920 Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
* 1920 France captures Damascus.
* 1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
* 1934 The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
* 1940 General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
* 1942 Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
* 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
* 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.
* 1946 Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
* 1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
* 1948 The Australian cricket team sets a world record for the highest successful run-chase in Test cricket history in the Fourth Test against England.
* 1952 The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current international law.
* 1956 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
* 1957 The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
* 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
* 1959 SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
* 1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
* 1965 Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
* 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.
* 1973 Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
* 1978 The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs.
* 1978 Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
* 1979 Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
* 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 terrorist forces in Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
* 1993 The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
* 1994 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
* 1995 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
* 1996 In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
* 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.
* 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president.
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This Date in History - July 25th
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* 285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
* 306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
* 1139 Battle of Ourique: The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of Leσn declared after the Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques. He then becomes Afonso I, King of Portugal, after calling the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he is given the Crown from the Bishop of Braganηa, to confirm the independence.
* 1261 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
* 1536 Sebastiαn de Belalcαzar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
* 1538 The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
* 1547 Henry II of France is crowned.
* 1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
* 1593 Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
* 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 Leσn, Mιxico.
* 1722 Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
* 1755 British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
* 1758 Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
* 1759 French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillι.
* 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.
* 1795 The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
* 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.
* 1814 War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
* 1824 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
* 1837 The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
* 1853 Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
* 1861 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
* 1866 The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
* 1868 Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
* 1869 The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
* 1894 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
* 1898 The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guαnica, Puerto Rico (The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898).
* 1907 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
* 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.
* 1909 Louis Blιriot 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.
* 1917 Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
* 1920 Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
* 1920 France captures Damascus.
* 1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
* 1934 The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
* 1940 General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
* 1942 Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
* 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
* 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.
* 1946 Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
* 1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
* 1948 The Australian cricket team sets a world record for the highest successful run-chase in Test cricket history in the Fourth Test against England.
* 1952 The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current international law.
* 1956 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
* 1957 The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
* 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
* 1959 SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
* 1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
* 1965 Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
* 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.
* 1973 Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
* 1978 The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs.
* 1978 Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
* 1979 Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
* 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 terrorist forces in Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
* 1993 The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
* 1994 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
* 1995 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
* 1996 In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
* 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.
* 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president.
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