Today is July 25
Candles on a Cake Day (First Birthday Cake 55BC)
Merry-Go-Round Day (1871)
Thread The Neddle Day
Health, Happiness & Hypnosis Day
Food Holidays
National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
Marshmallow Hot Fudge
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Today in History – Interesting Highlights
In the News
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seatobservation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
1917 – Sir Robert Borden 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 Henri 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.
1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
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, France to Dover, England 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 is launched.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
1978 – Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
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 Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that 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 female president.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Holidays and Observances
Christian Feast Day:
Anne (Eastern Christianity)
Christopher (Western Christianity)
Cucuphas
James the Great (Western Christianity)
Julian of Le Mans (translation)
July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Commonwealth Constitution Day, formerly Occupation Day. (Puerto Rico)
Ebernoe Horn Fair (Sussex, southern England)
Furrinalia (Roman Empire)
Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap’a
National Day of Galicia (Galicia)
Republic Day (Tunisia)
Amordadegan festival (Persian Empire)
Music
1962 – The Elvis Presley film “Kid Galahad” premiered.
1965 – Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival with an electric guitar. It was his first non-acoustic set.
1966 – In San Francisco, CA, the Rolling Stones performed their last U.S. concert with Brian Jones.
1967 – The Beatles and other U.K. rock groups urged the British government to legalize marijuana. Their comments were made in a London Times advertisement signed by all four of the Beatles.
1969 – Neil Young made his first appearance with Crosby, Stills and Nash.
1970 – Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4″ was released.
1971 – The Beach Boys released their album “Surf’s Up.”
1975 – “A Chorus Line” debuted on Broadway. The show closed in 1990 after 6,137 performances.
1980 – KISS introduced their new drummer, Eric Carr, at a concert at the Paladium in New York City.
1990 – Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.
1995 – Nina Simone fired a gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next door to her home in southern France. She was put on 18 months probation and ordered to seek psychological counseling.
2006 – Metallica put up four albums for sale on iTunes. The albums “Kill ‘Em All”, “Ride The Lightning”, “Master of Puppets” and “…And Just For All” included previously unreleased tracks recorded in Seatle in 1989. Metallica had led the charge against the original Napster online file-sharing service.
Movies
Movies Released Today:
Hercules
Lucy
The Fluffy Movie
Step Up All In
Wish I Was Here
A Most Wanted Man
Magic In The Moonlight
Happy Christmas
Very Good Girls
Movies Released on July 25
1965 – Illeana Douglas (actress in Cape Fear (1991) and Stir of Echoes) born
1973 – Michael C. Williams (actor in The Blair Witch Project) born
2013 – Apartment 1303 3D released.
1951 – The Lost Planet Airmen
1986 – Haunted Honeymoon
1986 – Maximum Overdrive
2009 – Goat Sucker
Television
1922 - AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
Sports
1920 - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth’s 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1956 - 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1972 - 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1982 - 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 - 37th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1990 - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game
Famous Births
1901 – Ruth Krauss, American author (d. 1993)
1901 – Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 – Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author (d. 1983)
1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (d. 1990)
1906 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1970)
1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 – Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author (d. 2004)
1908 – Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (d. 2003)
1914 – Woody Strode, American football player and actor (d. 1994)
1915 – S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Ceylon politician
1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
1916 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (d. 1999)
1917 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 – Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist (d. 1958)
1921 – Adolph Herseth, American trumpet player (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) (d. 2013)
1921 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
1923 – Edgar Gilbert, American mathematician (d. 2013)
1923 – Maria Gripe, Swedish author (d. 2007)
1924 – Frank Church, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
1924 – Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
1925 – Benny Benjamin, American drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969)
1925 – Jerry Paris, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
1925 – Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish, writer, journalist and politician
1926 – Whitey Lockman, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2009)
1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1927 – Midge Decter, American journalist and author
1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician, 10th Governor of Punjab (d. 2000)
1927 – Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (d. 1982)
1928 – Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
1928 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1928 – Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)
1929 – Judd Buchanan, Canadian politician
1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
1929 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 – Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer and manager (d. 1985)
1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian opera singer (d. 2010)
1930 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist (d. 1990)
1930 – Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
1932 – Paul J. Weitz, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1934 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
1934 – Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter
1935 – Barbara Harris, American actress and singer
1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian businessman
1935 – Gilbert Parent, Canadian politician, 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2009)
1935 – John Robinson, American football player and coach
1935 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1935 – Lars Werner, Swedish politician (d. 2013)
1936 – Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver
1936 – Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect
1936 – August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
1937 – Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archeologist and academic
1940 – Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
1941 – Manny Charlton, Spanish-Scottish guitarist (Nazareth and Manny Charlton Band)
1941 – Billy Hardwick, American bowler (d. 2013)
1941 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
1941 – Peter Suschitzky, Polish-English cinematographer
1941 – Nate Thurmond, American basketball player
1941 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
1942 – Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Seekers)
1943 – Jim McCarty, English singer and drummer (The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Illusion)
1943 – Erika Steinbach, German politician
1944 – Peter Duncan, Canadian skier
1944 – Sally Beauman, English journalist and author
1945 – Donna Theodore, American actress and singer
1946 – José Areas, Nicaraguan drummer (Santana)
1946 – John Gibson, American radio host
1946 – Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer (I Threes)
1946 – P. Selvarasa, Sri Lankan politician
1948 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
1950 – Mark Clarke, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Colosseum, Mountain, Natural Gas, and Uriah Heep)
1951 – Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist
1951 – Verdine White, American bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1952 – Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
1952 – Huang Wenyong, Malaysian-Singaporean actor (d. 2013)
1953 – Robert Zoellick, American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
1954 – Lynne Frederick, English-American actress (d. 1994)
1954 – Ken Greer, Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (Red Rider)
1954 – Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
1954 – Jochem Ziegert, German footballer an manager
1955 – Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
1955 – Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter (Pylon and Supercluster) (d. 2009)
1955 – Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1955 – Tom McCamus, Canadian actor
1957 – Steve Podborski, Canadian skier
1958 – Alexei Filippenko, American astrophysicist and educator
1958 – Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, The Coachmen, and Dim Stars)
1959 – Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian murderer (d. 2013)
1959 – Geoffrey Zakarian, American chef
1960 – Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1960 – Justice Howard, American photographer
1961 – Bobbie Eakes, American actress and singer
1961 – Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
1961 – Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and politician
1962 – Carin Bakkum, Dutch tennis player
1962 – Doug Drabek, American baseball player and coach
1963 – Denis Coderre, Canadian politician
1963 – Julian Hodgson, Welsh chess player
1964 – Anne Applebaum, American journalist and author
1964 – Tony Granato, American ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Breuk Iversen, American graphic designer
1965 – Marty Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Illeana Douglas, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Maureen Herman, American bass player (Babes in Toyland)
1966 – Lynda Lemay, Canadian singer-songwriter
1966 – Christine Quinn, American politician
1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
1967 – Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 – Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1968 – Rudi Bryson, South African cricketer
1968 – Shi Tao, Chinese journalist
1969 – Jon Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 – Ernesto Alterio, Argentinian-Spanish actor
1971 – Chloë Annett, English actress
1971 – Roger Creager, American singer-songwriter
1971 – Tracy Murray, American basketball player
1971 – Billy Wagner, American baseball player and coach
1973 – David Denman, American actor
1973 – Dani Filth, English singer-songwriter and actor (Cradle of Filth)
1973 – Hu Jia, Chinese activist
1973 – Mur Lafferty, American author and blogger
1973 – Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 – Michael C. Williams, American actor
1974 – Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
1974 – Julia Laffranque, Estonian lawyer
1974 – Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese wrestler
1974 – Lauren Faust, American animator
1975 – Jody Craddock, English footballer
1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1975 – El Zorro, Mexican wrestler
1976 – Tera Patrick, American porn actress
1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet and critic
1976 – Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Ahmad Batebi, Iranian activist
1977 – Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 – Louise Brown, English test tube baby
1978 – Gerard Warren, American football player
1979 – Amy Adams, American singer
1979 – Peter Brame, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Ali Carter, English snooker player
1979 – Stefanie Hertel, German yodeler
1979 – Juan Pablo Di Pace, Argentinian actor
1980 – Soo Ae, South Korean actress
1980 – Sven Järve, Estonian fencer
1980 – Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1980 – Samuel Sheinbein, American-Israeli murderer (d. 2014)
1980 – Toni Vilander, Finnish race car driver
1980 – David Wachs, American actor
1980 – Scott Waldrom, New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 – Constantinos Charalambidis, Cypriot footballer
1981 – Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer
1981 – Mac Lethal, American rapper and producer
1981 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 – Jason Dundas, Australian-American television host and actor
1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1982 – Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
1983 – Richie Chance, American actor and producer
1983 – Kauri Kõiv, Estonian biathlete
1983 – Nenad Krstić, Serbian basketball player
1984 – Lauriane Gilliéron, Swiss model, Miss Switzerland 2005
1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 – James Lafferty, American actor and director
1985 – Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 – Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1985 – Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer
1985 – Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
1986 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Abraham Gneki Guié, Ivorian footballer
1986 – Sumela Kay, Canadian actress
1986 – Jessi Malay, American singer-songwriter and dancer (No Secrets)
1986 – Barbara Meier, German model
1986 – Ahtyba Rubin, American football player
1987 – Michael Welch, American actor
1988 – Paulinho, Brazilian footballer
1988 – Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1988 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1988 – Stacey Kemp, English pair skater
1989 – Andrew Caldwell, American actor
1989 – Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
1989 – Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player
1990 – Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress
1991 – Toni Duggan, English female footballer
2000 – Preston Bailey, American actor
Deaths
1934 – François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty, Inc. (b. 1874)
1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
1942 – Fred Englehardt, American triple jumper (b. 1879)
1952 – Herbert Murrill, English organist and composer (b. 1909)
1958 – Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
1959 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-Irish rabbi (b. 1888)
1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1966 – Frank O’Hara, American poet (b. 1926)
1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)
1971 – John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
1971 – Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (b. 1896)
1973 – Louis St. Laurent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
1982 – Hal Foster, Canadian-American illustrator (b. 1892)
1984 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903)
1988 – Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
1989 – Steve Rubell, American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943)
1992 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
1996 – Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
1997 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 – Tal Farlow, American guitarist (b. 1921)
1998 – Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
2000 – Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
2002 – Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (b. 1912)
2003 – Erik Brann, American singer and guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 – John Schlesinger, English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2004 – John Passmore, Australian philosopher (b. 1914)
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Carl Brashear, American navy officer (b. 1931)
2006 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928)
2007 – Bernd Jakubowski, German footballer (b. 1952)
2007 – Jesse Marunde, American strongman (b. 1979)
2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2008 – Tracy Hall, American chemist (b. 1919)
2008 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960)
2009 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
2009 – Alexis Cohen, American singer (b. 1984)
2009 – Vernon Forrest, American boxer (b. 1971)
2009 – Stanley Middleton, English author (b. 1919)
2009 – Harry Patch, English soldier (b. 1898)
2010 – Redford White, Filipino actor (b. 1955)
2011 – Michael Cacoyannis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2012 – David Barby, English antiques expert (b. 1943)
2012 – Shelby Harris, American super-centenarian (b. 1901)
2012 – B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2012 – Barry Langford, English director and producer (b. 1926)
2012 – Greg Mohns, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1950)
2012 – Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
2013 – Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician (b. 1955)
2013 – Walter De Maria, American sculptor (b. 1935)
2013 – William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2013 – Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist (b. 1924)
2013 – Barnaby Jack, New Zealand computer hacker (b. 1977)
2013 – Bernadette Lafont, French actress (b. 1938)
2013 – Duilio Marzio, Argentinian actor (b. 1923)
2013 – Juan David Ochoa Vásquez, Colombian former drug trafficker (b. 1949)
2013 – Kongar-ol Ondar, Russian singer (b. 1962)
2013 – Philip Russell, South African archbishop (b. 1919)
2013 – Hans Tanzler, American judge and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville (b. 1927)
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