About July 25
July 25, 2024 is the 207th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 188 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 25
- 1554 –Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral
- 1567 –Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1603 –James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1759 –French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
- 1797 –Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- 1866 –The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 1868 –Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1869 –The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1894 –The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1942 –Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1959 –SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
- 1961 –In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1983 –Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1993 –The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1994 –Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1996 –In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 2007 –Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
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