This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
07/25/ 975 Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler 
07/25/1109 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85) 
07/25/1404 Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant 
07/25/1517 Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet 
07/25/1575 Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer 
07/25/1579 Valerius Otto, composer 
07/25/1626 Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian 
07/25/1654 Agostino Steffani, composer 
07/25/1657 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer 
07/25/1683 Pieter Langend˜k, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars) 
07/25/1691 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini) 
07/25/1715 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Wahren Dichtkunst) 
07/25/1761 Charlotte von Kalb, German writer 
07/25/1772 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer 
07/25/1775 Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841) 
07/25/1778 Heinrich Gebhard, composer 
07/25/1780 Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer 
07/25/1786 Giacomo Cordella, composer 
07/25/1800 Heinrich R G”ppert, German paleo-botanist 
07/25/1804 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education 
07/25/1816 Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition) 
07/25/1822 Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 
07/25/1824 Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899 
07/25/1832 Simon Hassler, composer 
07/25/1840 Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution 
07/25/1848 Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)

07/25/1855 Edward Solomon, composer 
07/25/1865 Jac[obus] P Th˜sse, biologist (Contact with Plants 
07/25/1866 Frederick F Blackman, English botanist 
07/25/1867 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (That ewige Hochzeit) 
07/25/1870 John D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, vicar (Young Flanders) 
07/25/1876 Gabri‰lla V M Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium 
07/25/1883 Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara) 
07/25/1884 Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man) 
07/25/1885 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Apart caranchos de la Florida)

07/25/1896 Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant (Normandy) 
07/25/1897 Hermann Ambrosius, composer 
07/25/1899 Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz) 
07/25/1901 Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat) 
07/25/1902 Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer) 
07/25/1903 Andre Fleury, composer 
07/25/1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981) 
07/25/1907 Jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2) 
07/25/1907 Karl Holler, composer 
07/25/1916 Ko van D˜k Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P) 
07/25/1918 Nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula's Daughter

07/25/1924 Estelle Getty, NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls) 
07/25/1924 Frank Church, (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81) 
07/25/1925 Jerry Paris, SF Calif, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show) 
07/25/1926 Teodor Grigoriu, composer 
07/25/1927 Midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...) 
07/25/1930 Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony

07/25/1931 Cornelis P Van Dyke, CDA-minister Ontwikkelingssam/Internal minister

07/25/1932 Gibson N Kente, composer 
07/25/1932 Paul J Weitz, Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6) 
07/25/1935 Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman/billionaire/arms dealer 
07/25/1935 Barbara Harris, actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot) 
07/25/1935 Laurent Terzieff, Paris France, actor (Pharoah-Moses the Law Giver) 
07/25/1939 Richard Akre Trythall, composer 
07/25/1940 John Pennel, pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963) 
07/25/1941 Nate Thurmond, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers) 
07/25/1943 Janet Margolin, NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa) 
07/25/1943 Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love) 
07/25/1944 Helga I 'Mijanou' van Baarzel, actress (Klaverweide-Alicia) 
07/25/1945 Donna Theodore, Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts) 
07/25/1948 Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath) 
07/25/1948 Steve Goodman, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble) 
07/25/1950 Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep) 
07/25/1951 Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer 
07/25/1951 Verdine White, US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire) 
07/25/1952 'Gorgeous' Jimmy Garvin, [Williams], NWA/WCW/AWA wrestler 
07/25/1954 Ken Greer, rocker (Red Rider) 
07/25/1954 Lynn Frederick, Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia) 
07/25/1954 Walter Payton, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) 
07/25/1955 Bantubonke Holomisa, minister of Defense of Transkei (1988-  ) 
07/25/1956 Iman, model/aka Mrs David Bowie/actress (Star Trek VI) 
07/25/1957 Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980) 
07/25/1957 Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (Sk:STS 51) 
07/25/1958 Henk Wanders, bassist (Frank Boe˜en Group) 
07/25/1958 Thurston Moore, US guitarist/songwriter (Sonic Youth) 
07/25/1961 Katherine Kelly Lang, LA Calif, actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful) 
07/25/1965 Marty Brown, Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams) 
07/25/1966 Elke Jeinsen, Hanover, Germany, playmate (May, 1993) 
07/25/1967 Dave Jareckie, Mexico City Mexico, US biathelete (Olympics-1994) 
07/25/1969 Angela Melini, Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992) 
07/25/1970 Nicholas CEJ Windsor, under English prince Edward, duke of Knows 
07/25/1975 Jay R Ferguson Jr, Dallas Tx, actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade) 
07/25/1978 Louise Brown, Oldham England, world's 1st 'test tube baby' 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/25/ 306 Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies 
07/25/1471 John Soreth, French general, dies 
07/25/1492 Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies 
07/25/1564 Ferdinand I, German Emperor, dies at 61 
07/25/1580 Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47 
07/25/1593 Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61 
07/25/1616 Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies 
07/25/1675 Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61 
07/25/1721 Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66 
07/25/1759 Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39 
07/25/1759 Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies 
07/25/1794 Andr‚-Marie Ch‚nier, French poet (Avis aux Fran‡ais sur leurs), dies

07/25/1804 William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies 
07/25/1814 Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69 
07/25/1826 Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 34 
07/25/1853 Joaquin Murietta, Chilian/Us military man, murdered 
07/25/1857 Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54 
07/25/1866 Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies 
07/25/1896 Richard Gale, English general/para-commandant (Normandy), dies 
07/25/1911 Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71 
07/25/1918 Carlos Guido y Spano, Arg poet (Mexico, canto ‚pico), dies 
07/25/1922 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75 
07/25/1927 Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies 
07/25/1932 Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936] 
07/25/1934 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis 
07/25/1944 Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-L“ 
07/25/1946 Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies 
07/25/1952 Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43 
07/25/1955 Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62 
07/25/1955 Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55 
07/25/1958 'Sensational' Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF) 
07/25/1958 Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81 
07/25/1959 Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71 
07/25/1961 J H F Gr”nloh, [Nescio], author (Above the Vale), dies at 80 
07/25/1966 Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies 
07/25/1969 Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75 
07/25/1971 Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74 
07/25/1981 Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), dies at 69 
07/25/1982 Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76 
07/25/1983 Jerome Moross, composer, dies at 69 
07/25/1986 Theodore H 'Ted' Lyons, pitcher (Chic White Sox), dies at 85 
07/25/1986 Vincente Minnelli, movie director, dies in LA at 76 
07/25/1987 Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries 
07/25/1991 Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies 
07/25/1992 Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies at 77 of heart failure

07/25/1993 Nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies at 

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/25/ 841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I 
07/25/1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king 
07/25/1261 Emperor Michael VIII of Byzantium recaptures Constantinople 
07/25/1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia 
07/25/1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vr˜dagmarkt Gent 
07/25/1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics 
07/25/1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic 
07/25/1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna 
07/25/1670 Don Juan Domingo Zu¤iga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth 
07/25/1729 North Carolina becomes royal colony 
07/25/1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) 
07/25/1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta 
07/25/1792 Dutch patriots exiles finds 'Bataafs Legion' 
07/25/1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abuk

07/25/1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British 
07/25/1822 Gen Agust¡n de Iturbide crowned Agust¡n I, 1st emperor of M‚xico 
07/25/1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies 
07/25/1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine 
07/25/1848 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian 
07/25/1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River) 
07/25/1860 1st US intercollegiate billard match (Harvard vs Yales) 
07/25/1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia 
07/25/1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy 
07/25/1866 US Grant named 1st general of Army 
07/25/1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho) 
07/25/1871 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa 
07/25/1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay 
07/25/1902 Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons 
07/25/1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes 
07/25/1909 France's Louis Bl‚riot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channe

07/25/1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies 
07/25/1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game 
07/25/1913 Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies 
07/25/1914 Germany soc-democrat 'No German blood for Austrian tyrant' 
07/25/1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks 
07/25/1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif 
07/25/1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed) 
07/25/1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win 
07/25/1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)

07/25/1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 
07/25/1930 Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland 
07/25/1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington 
07/25/1934 Failed nazi coup in Austria 
07/25/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1641 Tana 
07/25/1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx 
07/25/1936 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #3761 
07/25/1938 Jewish artsens not allowed in Germany 
07/25/1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) 
07/25/1939 5th Dutch govt of Colijn, forms 
07/25/1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win

07/25/1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R

07/25/1941 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan 
07/25/1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)

07/25/1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja 
07/25/1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launche

07/25/1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 
07/25/1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl 
07/25/1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 
07/25/1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) 
07/25/1944 Allied jailbreak at St-L“ (behind German lines) 
07/25/1944 US troop march into Guam 
07/25/1944 USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-L“ 
07/25/1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show 
07/25/1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion) 
07/25/1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense 
07/25/1947 US Deptartment of Army created 
07/25/1949 St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for thew cycle beating Bkln 14-1 
07/25/1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1714 Sy 
07/25/1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day) 
07/25/1952 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1788 Kiess 
07/25/1952 Puerto Rico's constitution goes into effect 
07/25/1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10› to 15›, 1st use of subway tokens 
07/25/1956 Andria Doria collided with MS Stockholm & sank. (7/26?) 
07/25/1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm 
07/25/1956 Jack Burke wins PGA golf tournament 
07/25/1956 Jordan attacks UN Palestine force 
07/25/1956 Passenger ship Stockholm rams Andrea Doria at Nantucket Island 
07/25/1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic 
07/25/1960 Company Industrielle et ForestŠre (Indufor) forms in Brussels 
07/25/1960 US Republicans convention nominate Nixon as presidential candidate 
07/25/1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header 
07/25/1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations 
07/25/1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty 
07/25/1964 Beatles' 'Hard Day's Night, A,' album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 week

07/25/1964 Race riot in Rochester NY 
07/25/1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival 
07/25/1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River 
07/25/1966 Supremes release 'You Can't Hurry Love' 
07/25/1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 
07/25/1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) 
07/25/1968 H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #1993 Guacolda 
07/25/1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical On regulation of birth 
07/25/1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival 
07/25/1972 NL beats AL 4-3 in 43rd All Star Game (Fulton County Stad, Atlanta) 
07/25/1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 
07/25/1972 40 year syphillis experiment 
07/25/1973 George Harrison pays œ1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & albu

07/25/1973 USSR launches Mars 5 
07/25/1974 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik 
07/25/1975 'A Chorus Line,' longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres 
07/25/1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager 
07/25/1978 Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games 
07/25/1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) 
07/25/1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die 
07/25/1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn 
07/25/1983 1st nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio 
07/25/1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion 
07/25/1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space 
07/25/1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS 
07/25/1985 Steve Cram runs world record 1 mile (3:46.32) 
07/25/1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup 
07/25/1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India 
07/25/1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Bel

07/25/1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite 
07/25/1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France 
07/25/1990 KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle 
07/25/1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) 
07/25/1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game 
07/25/1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute

07/25/1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-Los Angeles) 
07/25/1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain 
07/25/1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon 
07/25/1993 Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France 
07/25/1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy should collide with Jupiter 
  
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