July 25
Today is the 206th day of 2021, there are 159 days left in the year.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to ever hold the rank.
1898 - The United States invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
1943 - Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (However, Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazis, and re-asserted his authority.)
1946 - The United States detonated the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing 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.
1961 - In a televised address on the Berlin Crisis, President John F. Kennedy announced a series of steps aimed at bolstering the military in the face of Soviet demands that Western powers withdraw from the German city’s western sector.
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.
1975 - The musical “A Chorus Line” opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre, beginning a run of 6,137 performances.
1978 - The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England.
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. The FBI said it was investigating how thousands of Democratic National Committee emails were hacked. (Wikileaks had posted emails suggesting the DNC had favored Clinton over Sanders during the primary season.)
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 - Hurricane Hanna roared ashore in Texas, lashing the Gulf Coast with rain and a storm surge.
Birthdays
20 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
21 - Mason Cook (actor)
32 - Gina Darling (model)
33 - Linsey Godfrey (actor)
34 - Michael Welch (actor)
36 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
36 - James Lafferty (actor)
40 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
47 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
48 - David Denman (actor)
50 - Miriam Shor (actress)
52 - D.B. Woodside (actor)
54 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actress)
54 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
56 - Marty Brown (country singer)
56 - Illeana Douglas (actress)
60 - Katherine Kelly Lang (actress)
66 - Iman (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - 41-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final MLB career game as the Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-6 at Fenway Park
1949 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits for the cycle in a 14-1 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1966 - New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds sets a National League record by hitting in his 38th consecutive game.
1990 - Actor Roseanne Barr performs her infamous rendition of the National Anthem before a Cincinnati Reds vs. San Diego Padres game.
1992 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre re-signs with the Green Bay Packers with a record 7-year, $50 million contract.
1999 - Lance Armstrong wins the first of what would he his seven consecutive Tour de France titles.
2004 - Lance Armstrong wins his sixth consecutive Tour de France.
Today is the 206th day of 2021, there are 159 days left in the year.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to ever hold the rank.
1898 - The United States invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
1943 - Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (However, Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazis, and re-asserted his authority.)
1946 - The United States detonated the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing 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.
1961 - In a televised address on the Berlin Crisis, President John F. Kennedy announced a series of steps aimed at bolstering the military in the face of Soviet demands that Western powers withdraw from the German city’s western sector.
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.
1975 - The musical “A Chorus Line” opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre, beginning a run of 6,137 performances.
1978 - The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England.
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. The FBI said it was investigating how thousands of Democratic National Committee emails were hacked. (Wikileaks had posted emails suggesting the DNC had favored Clinton over Sanders during the primary season.)
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 - Hurricane Hanna roared ashore in Texas, lashing the Gulf Coast with rain and a storm surge.
Birthdays
20 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
21 - Mason Cook (actor)
32 - Gina Darling (model)
33 - Linsey Godfrey (actor)
34 - Michael Welch (actor)
36 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
36 - James Lafferty (actor)
40 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
47 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
48 - David Denman (actor)
50 - Miriam Shor (actress)
52 - D.B. Woodside (actor)
54 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actress)
54 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
56 - Marty Brown (country singer)
56 - Illeana Douglas (actress)
60 - Katherine Kelly Lang (actress)
66 - Iman (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - 41-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final MLB career game as the Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-6 at Fenway Park
1949 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits for the cycle in a 14-1 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1966 - New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds sets a National League record by hitting in his 38th consecutive game.
1990 - Actor Roseanne Barr performs her infamous rendition of the National Anthem before a Cincinnati Reds vs. San Diego Padres game.
1992 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre re-signs with the Green Bay Packers with a record 7-year, $50 million contract.
1999 - Lance Armstrong wins the first of what would he his seven consecutive Tour de France titles.
2004 - Lance Armstrong wins his sixth consecutive Tour de France.
