July 25
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold that rank.
1943 - Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (He was later rescued by Nazi forces and re-asserted his authority.)
1946 - The United States tested its first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
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 New England coast, killing 51 people.
1960 - A Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina that had been the scene of nearly six months of sit-in protests 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 more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
1978 - The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England, who was conceived by 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.
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.
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.
2022 - On a visit to Canada, Pope Francis issued a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with the country's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations.
Birthdays
24 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
39 - James Lafferty (actor)
39 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
43 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
45 - Juan Pablo Di Pace (actor)
50 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
51 - David Denman (actor)
57 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actress)
57 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
69 - Iman (model)
78 - Rita Marley (singer)
81 - Jim McCarty (musician)
82 - Bruce Woodley (singer)
114 - Elizabeth Francis (oldest living American)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - Pitcher Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10-6.
1949 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits for the cycle against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1956 - Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits MLB's first and only walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in a 9-8 win over the Chicago Cubs.
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 performed an infamous rendition of the National Anthem prior to a San Diego Padres baseball game.
1990 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits for the cycle in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
1992 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre signs a record 7-year, $50 million contract with the Green Bay Packers.
1999 - Lance Armstrong becomes the second American (Greg LeMond) to win the Tour de France.
2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth consecutive Tour de France.
2012 - The Summer Olympic Games open in London, England.
2021 - At the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, the United States men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic win streak snapped in a 83-76 first-round loss to France.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold that rank.
1943 - Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (He was later rescued by Nazi forces and re-asserted his authority.)
1946 - The United States tested its first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
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 New England coast, killing 51 people.
1960 - A Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina that had been the scene of nearly six months of sit-in protests 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 more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
1978 - The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England, who was conceived by 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.
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.
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.
2022 - On a visit to Canada, Pope Francis issued a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with the country's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations.
Birthdays
24 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
39 - James Lafferty (actor)
39 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
43 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
45 - Juan Pablo Di Pace (actor)
50 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
51 - David Denman (actor)
57 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actress)
57 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
69 - Iman (model)
78 - Rita Marley (singer)
81 - Jim McCarty (musician)
82 - Bruce Woodley (singer)
114 - Elizabeth Francis (oldest living American)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - Pitcher Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10-6.
1949 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits for the cycle against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1956 - Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits MLB's first and only walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in a 9-8 win over the Chicago Cubs.
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 performed an infamous rendition of the National Anthem prior to a San Diego Padres baseball game.
1990 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits for the cycle in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
1992 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre signs a record 7-year, $50 million contract with the Green Bay Packers.
1999 - Lance Armstrong becomes the second American (Greg LeMond) to win the Tour de France.
2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth consecutive Tour de France.
2012 - The Summer Olympic Games open in London, England.
2021 - At the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, the United States men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic win streak snapped in a 83-76 first-round loss to France.
