July 25
1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.
1868 - Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1943 - King Victor Emmanuel announced to Italy that he had accepted the “resignations” of Premier Benito Mussolini and his entire cabinet, leading to the end of Italy’s alliance with Nazi Germany in World War II.
1946 - The United States tested 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.
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 - 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 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.
2000 - Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
2008 - California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.
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.
2017 - A bitterly-divided Senate voted to move forward with Republican legislation to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” Sen. John McCain, returning to the Capitol for the first time since he was diagnosed with brain cancer, cast a decisive “yes” vote. (Three days later, McCain joined with two other Republican senators and Democrats in defeating the repeal effort.)
2017 - House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice on June 14, was released from a Washington hospital.
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 Portland every night for two months in the aftermath of the Minneapolis death of George Floyd.
2021 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named a second Republican critic of Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to a special committee investigating the Capitol riot; he joined Rep. Liz Cheney as the committee’s two Republicans, both selected by Democrats.
Birthdays
21 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
22 - Mason Cook (actor)
33 - Gina Darling (model)
34 - Linsey Godfrey (actress)
35 - Michael Welch (actor)
37 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
37 - James Lafferty (actor)
41 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
48 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
49 - David Denman (actor)
51 - Miriam Shor (actress)
53 - D.B. Woodside (actor)
55 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actress)
55 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
57 - Marty Brown (singer)
57 - Illeana Douglas (actress)
61 - Katherine Kelly Lang (actress)
61 - Bobbie Eakes (singer)
67 - Iman (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - Lefty Grove, at age 41, wins his 300th and final career MLB game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10-6.
1949 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits for the cycle in a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1966 - Casey Stengel is elected to 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 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits for the cycle for the second time of his career in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.
1992 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre resigns with the Green Bay Packers with a record 7-year contract worth $50 million.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second American to ever win the race (Greg LeMond).
2004 - Lance Armstrong won his sixth consecutive Tour de France.
2012 - The Summer Olympic Games open in London.
2021 - The United States men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic Games winning streak end with a 83-76 loss to France at the Summer Games in Tokyo.
1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.
1868 - Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1943 - King Victor Emmanuel announced to Italy that he had accepted the “resignations” of Premier Benito Mussolini and his entire cabinet, leading to the end of Italy’s alliance with Nazi Germany in World War II.
1946 - The United States tested 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.
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 - 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 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.
2000 - Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
2008 - California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.
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.
2017 - A bitterly-divided Senate voted to move forward with Republican legislation to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” Sen. John McCain, returning to the Capitol for the first time since he was diagnosed with brain cancer, cast a decisive “yes” vote. (Three days later, McCain joined with two other Republican senators and Democrats in defeating the repeal effort.)
2017 - House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice on June 14, was released from a Washington hospital.
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 Portland every night for two months in the aftermath of the Minneapolis death of George Floyd.
2021 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named a second Republican critic of Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to a special committee investigating the Capitol riot; he joined Rep. Liz Cheney as the committee’s two Republicans, both selected by Democrats.
Birthdays
21 - Meg Donnelly (actress)
22 - Mason Cook (actor)
33 - Gina Darling (model)
34 - Linsey Godfrey (actress)
35 - Michael Welch (actor)
37 - Shantel VanSanten (actress)
37 - James Lafferty (actor)
41 - Finn Balor (professional wrestler)
48 - Jay R. Ferguson (actor)
49 - David Denman (actor)
51 - Miriam Shor (actress)
53 - D.B. Woodside (actor)
55 - Wendy Raquel Robinson (actress)
55 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
57 - Marty Brown (singer)
57 - Illeana Douglas (actress)
61 - Katherine Kelly Lang (actress)
61 - Bobbie Eakes (singer)
67 - Iman (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - Lefty Grove, at age 41, wins his 300th and final career MLB game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10-6.
1949 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits for the cycle in a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1966 - Casey Stengel is elected to 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 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits for the cycle for the second time of his career in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.
1992 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997 - Quarterback Brett Favre resigns with the Green Bay Packers with a record 7-year contract worth $50 million.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second American to ever win the race (Greg LeMond).
2004 - Lance Armstrong won his sixth consecutive Tour de France.
2012 - The Summer Olympic Games open in London.
2021 - The United States men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic Games winning streak end with a 83-76 loss to France at the Summer Games in Tokyo.
