Event Information

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2. ·       National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
3. ·       National Wine and Cheese Day
4. ·       National Hire a Veteran Day
5. ·       National System Administrator Appreciation Day
6. ·       National Talk in an Elevator Day
7. ·       Carousel Day
8. ·       International Red Shoe Day
9. ·       St. James TG
10. ·       National Talk in an Elevator Day
11. ·       Ask an Archaeologist Day
12. ·       International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent
13. ·       International Day on Judicial Well-being
14. ·       World Drowning Prevention Day
15. ·       Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day
16. ·       National Get Gnarly Day
17. ·       National Thread the Needle Day
18. ·       Culinarians Day
19. ·       Gentse Feesten is a vibrant celebration held in Ghent, Belgium
20. ·       Darwin Show Day
21. ·       National Zoo Keeper Week
22. ·       Tour de France
23. ·       Festival of British Archaeology
24. ·       Love Parks Week
25. ·       Big Butterfly Count
26. ·       National Moth Week
27. ·       National Parenting Gifted Children Week
28. ·       Everybody Deserves a Massage Week
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30. Notable Birthdays
31. ·       Henry Knox (1750-1806) - The first States Secretary of War for the U.S.
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33. ·       George Vashon (1824-1878) - The first Black American lawyer to offer services in NY.
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35. ·       Flora Adams Darling (1840-1910) - Founder of the Daughters of American Revolution.
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37. ·       Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - Considered one of America's most prolific painters, sculptors, and photographers.
38. ·       1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 2018)
39. ·       1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian businessman (died 2017)
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44. Memorable Events for July 25
45. ·       2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
46. ·       2016 - Verizon purchases Yahoo for $4.83 billion.
47. ·       2007 Pratibha Patil - Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India, becoming the first woman to hold the office.
48. ·       1984 - Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
49. ·       1952 - Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico attained its own government as a commonwealth of the United States.
50. ·       2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
51. ·       1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
52. ·       1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF
53. ·       1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
54. ·       1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
55. ·       1946 – The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
56. ·       1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
57. ·       1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
58. ·       1898 - Nelson Miles, William R. Shafter, and Joseph Wheeler - U.S. forces under General Nelson A. Miles invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
59. ·       1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
60. ·       1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
61. ·       1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor
62. ·       1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism
63. ·       1554 – The royal wedding of Mary I and Philip II of Spain celebrated at Winchester Cathedral
64. ·       1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.