July 25
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.
1943 - During World War II, Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (He was later rescued by the Nazis and re-asserted his authority.)
1946 - The United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States.
1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the coast of New England, resulting in 51 deaths.
1960 - A Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whites-only lunch counter dropped its segregation policy.
1972 - The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first "test tube baby," was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through the technique of in-vitro fertilization.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war.
2000 - A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet.
2010 - The online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
2016 - On the opening night of the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia, Bernie Sanders robustly embraced his former rival Hillary Clinton as a champion for the same economic causes that enlivened his supporters, signaling it was time for them to rally behind her in the campaign against Republican Donald Trump.
2018 - A study published in the journal Science revealed that a huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the planet.
2019 - President Donald Trump had a second phone call with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he solicited Zelenskyy's help in gathering potentially damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden; that night, a staff member at the White House Office of Management and Budget signed a document that officially put military aid for Ukraine on hold.
2020 - Federal agents fired tear gas to break up rowdy protests in Portland, Oregon that continued into the early morning. Demonstrations had been taking place in the city every night for two months in the aftermath of the Minneapolis death of George Floyd.
Birthdays
22 - Bryce Young (football player)
23 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
23 - Mason Cook (actor)
28 - Faryl Smith (singer)
34 - Gina Darling (model)
35 - Linsey Godfrey (actress)
36 - Michael Welch (actor)
38 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
38 - James Lafferty (actor)
39 - Zawe Ashton (actress)
42 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
49 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
50 - David Denman (actor)
52 - Miriam Shor (actress)
54 - D.B. Woodside (actor)
56 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actor)
56 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
58 - Marty Brown (singer)
58 - Illeana Douglas (actress)
62 - Katherine Kelly Lang (actress)
62 - Bobbie Eakes (singer)
68 - Iman (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits four home runs in a double header sweep of the Chicago White Sox.
1966 - Casey Stengel is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1978 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) broke the National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight games.
1987 - The Salt Lake City Trappers set a professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row.
1990 - Actress Roseanne Barr performs her infamous rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner before a San Diego Padres vs. Cincinnati Reds baseball game.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre re-signs with the Green Bay Packers for a record 7-year, $50 million contract.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France, becoming just the second American to win the great bicycle race.
2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth consecutive Tour de France.
2021 - The U.S. men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic win streak end with a 83-76 loss to France in a first round game at the Summer Games in Tokyo.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.
1943 - During World War II, Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (He was later rescued by the Nazis and re-asserted his authority.)
1946 - The United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States.
1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the coast of New England, resulting in 51 deaths.
1960 - A Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whites-only lunch counter dropped its segregation policy.
1972 - The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first "test tube baby," was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through the technique of in-vitro fertilization.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war.
2000 - A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet.
2010 - The online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
2016 - On the opening night of the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia, Bernie Sanders robustly embraced his former rival Hillary Clinton as a champion for the same economic causes that enlivened his supporters, signaling it was time for them to rally behind her in the campaign against Republican Donald Trump.
2018 - A study published in the journal Science revealed that a huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the planet.
2019 - President Donald Trump had a second phone call with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he solicited Zelenskyy's help in gathering potentially damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden; that night, a staff member at the White House Office of Management and Budget signed a document that officially put military aid for Ukraine on hold.
2020 - Federal agents fired tear gas to break up rowdy protests in Portland, Oregon that continued into the early morning. Demonstrations had been taking place in the city every night for two months in the aftermath of the Minneapolis death of George Floyd.
Birthdays
22 - Bryce Young (football player)
23 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
23 - Mason Cook (actor)
28 - Faryl Smith (singer)
34 - Gina Darling (model)
35 - Linsey Godfrey (actress)
36 - Michael Welch (actor)
38 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
38 - James Lafferty (actor)
39 - Zawe Ashton (actress)
42 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
49 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
50 - David Denman (actor)
52 - Miriam Shor (actress)
54 - D.B. Woodside (actor)
56 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actor)
56 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
58 - Marty Brown (singer)
58 - Illeana Douglas (actress)
62 - Katherine Kelly Lang (actress)
62 - Bobbie Eakes (singer)
68 - Iman (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits four home runs in a double header sweep of the Chicago White Sox.
1966 - Casey Stengel is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1978 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) broke the National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight games.
1987 - The Salt Lake City Trappers set a professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row.
1990 - Actress Roseanne Barr performs her infamous rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner before a San Diego Padres vs. Cincinnati Reds baseball game.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre re-signs with the Green Bay Packers for a record 7-year, $50 million contract.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France, becoming just the second American to win the great bicycle race.
2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth consecutive Tour de France.
2021 - The U.S. men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic win streak end with a 83-76 loss to France in a first round game at the Summer Games in Tokyo.
