About July 25
July 25, 2023 is the 206th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 200 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 25
- 1261 –The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1536 –Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1554 –Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral
- 1693 –Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1788 –Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1814 –War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
- 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.
- 1894 –The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1917 –Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1942 –Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 1946 –Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
- 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.
- 1958 –The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- 1961 –In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1978 –The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs.
- 1993 –Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
- 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.
- 2010 –Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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