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
- 315 –The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
- 1536 –Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1547 –Henry II of France is crowned.
- 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.
- 1693 –Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- 1722 –Dummer’s War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
- 1755 –British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1853 –Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
- 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.
- 1909 –Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
- 1934 –The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1943 –World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 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.
- 1957 –The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- 1976 –Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- 1979 –Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- 1993 –Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
- 2010 –Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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