About July 25
July 25, 2022 is the 206th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 181 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 25
- 306 –Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 315 –The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
- 1261 –The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1593 –Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1788 –Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1795 –The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1799 –At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 1853 –Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
- 1868 –Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1893 –The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- 1908 –Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 1915 –RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- 1942 –Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 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.
- 1965 –Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 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.
- 1995 –A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- 2000 –Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
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