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What happened on July 25th


 Birthdates Which Occur on July 25: 
 975 Thietmar bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1109 Afonso I the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85)
1404 Philips van Saint-Pol Duke of Brabant
1517 Jacques Peletier (du Mans) French poet/scientist
1575 Christoph Scheiner Germany, astronomer
1579 Valerius Otto composer
1626 Geeraerdt Brandt Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1654 Agostino Steffani composer
1657 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach composer
1683 Pieter Langend˜k painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars)
1691 Alessandro Galilei Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1715 Immanuel J Pyra German poet (Temple of Real Poetry)
1761 Charlotte von Kalb German writer
1772 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey composer
1775 Anna Symmes Harrison Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841)
1778 Heinrich Gebhard composer
1780 Christian Theodor Weinlig composer
1786 Giacomo Cordella composer
1800 Heinrich R G”ppert German paleo-botanist
1804 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello Italian minister of Education
1816 Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz German publisher (T Edition)
1822 Schuyler Hamilton Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1824 Richard James Oglesby Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1832 Simon Hassler composer
1840 Flora Adams Darling founded Daughters of American Revolution
1848 Arthur Earl Balfour (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
1855 Edward Solomon composer
1865 Jac[obus] P Th˜sse Dutch biologist/educator (Contact with Plants)
1866 Frederick Frost Blackman English botanist
1867 Max Dauthendy German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit)
1870 Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard Dutch vicar (Young Flanders)
1876 Gabri‰lla V M Elisabeth Queen of Belgium/duchess of Bavaria
1883 Alfredo Casella Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
1884 Davidson Black Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
1885 Benito Lynch Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
1890 Julian Rivero SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express)
 and Tom O'Brien San Diego CA, actor (Physical Evidence)
1895 Yvonne Printemps Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
1896 Richard N Gale English general/paracommandant (Normandy)
1897 Hermann Ambrosius composer
1899 Ralph Dumke Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz)
19-- Bobbie Eakes Warner Robins GA, actress (Macy-Bold & Beautiful)
 and Gail Force XXX actress (Bedroom Balling, Come as you Are)
 and Justice Howard XXX actor
 and Ken Swofford DuQuoin Ill, actor (Quentin-Fame)
 and Wendy Raquel Robinson LA, actress (Rachel-Minor Adjustments)
1900 Enrique Amorim Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola)
1901 Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel writer (Een ship vergaat)
1902 Eric Hoffer longshoreman/author (True Believer)
1903 Andre Fleury composer
1905 Elias Canetti Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981)
 and Lila Lee Union City NJ, actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand)
1907 Jack Gilford NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)
1916 Ko van D˜k Jr Dutch actor (Zaak M P)
1918 Nan Grey [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula's Daughters)
1919 Hubert Booi Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila)
1924 Estelle Getty NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls)
 and Frank Church (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81)
1925 Jerry Paris SF Calif, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926 Teodor Grigoriu composer
1927 Midge Decter St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...)
1930 Maureen Forrester Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
1931 Cornelis P van Dijk Dutch minister of the Interior
1932 Gibson N Kente composer
 and Paul J Weitz Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
1935 Adnan Khashoggi Saudi businessman/billionaire/arms dealer
 and Barbara Harris [Sandra Mankwitz], actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot)
 and Laurent Terzieff Paris, actor (Pharoah-Moses the Law Giver) [or 6/25]
1939 Richard Akre Trythall composer
1940 John Pennel pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963)
1941 Nate Thurmond NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
 and Raul Ruiz
1943 Janet Margolin NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa)
 and Jim McCarty Liverpool, rock drummer (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
 and Roy Acuff Jr rocker
1944 Helga I "Mijanou" van Baarzel Dutch actress (Klaverweide, Alicia)
 and Tom Dawes rocker
1945 Donna Theodore Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts)
1948 Brian M[ichael] Stableford UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)
 and Steve Goodman Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble)
1950 Mark Clarke rocker (Uriah Heep)
1951 Vanessa [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
 and Verdine White US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1952 "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin [Williams], NWA/WCW/AWA wrestler
1954 Ken Greer rock guitarist (Red Rider)
 and Lynn Frederick Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia)
 and Walter Payton NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1955 Bantubonke Holomisa minister of Defense of Transkei (1988-  )
1956 Iman [Abdulmajid], Mogadishu Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6)
1957 Bogdan Musiol German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980)
 and Daniel W Bursch Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68)
1958 Henk Wanders Dutch bassist (Frank Boe˜en Group)
 and Thurston Moore US guitarist/songwriter (Sonic Youth)
1961 Katherine Kelly Lang LA Calif, actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 Marty Brown Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams)
1966 Elke Jeinsen Hanover, Germany, playmate (May, 1993)
1967 Dave Jareckie Mexico City Mexico, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
 and Matt LeBlanc actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
1969 Angela Melini Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992)
 and Trevor Peres US, metal guitarist (Obituary-The End Complete)
1970 Nicholas CEJ Windsor son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent
1975 Jay R Ferguson Jr Dallas Tx, actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade)
1978 Louise Brown Oldham England, world's 1st "test tube baby"
1982 Brad Renfro actor (Client)
 Deaths Which Occured July 25: 
 306 Gaius Flavius V Constantius under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies
1471 John Soreth French general, dies
1492 Innocent VII [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1539 Lorenzo Campeggi(east) archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65
1564 Ferdinand I German Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61
1570 Ivan Viskovati chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 Baltazar Alvarez Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1593 Steven Haghen navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61
1616 Andreas Libavius German alchemist, dies
1624 Steven van der Haghen admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61
1675 Nicolas Saboly composer, dies at 61
1721 Geleyn Evertsen lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66
1739 Johannes van der Hagen vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73
1759 Johann C Altnikol German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
     Theodoor Verhaegen Flemish sculptor, dies
1794 Andr‚-Marie Ch‚nier French poet (Avis aux Fran‡ais sur leurs), dies
1804 William Forsyth English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies
1814 Charles Dibdin composer, dies at 69
1826 Pavel I Pestel Russian officer, hanged at 34
1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge British poet, dies at 61
1853 Joaquin Murietta Chilian/Us military man, murdered
1857 Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova composer, dies at 54
1864 Clement Hoffman Stevens Us banker/inventor/Conf brig-gen, dies at 42
1866 Aloys Schmitt German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
1896 Richard Gale English general/para-commandant (Normandy), dies
1911 Filippo Capocci composer, dies at 71
1912 Lawrence Alma Tadema Dutch/British painter, dies at 76
1918 Carlos Guido y Spano Arg poet (Mexico, canto ‚pico), dies
1922 Jarolslaw Zielinski composer, dies at 75
1927 Matilde Serao [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
1932 Cyriel Buysse Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
1934 Engelbert Dollfuss Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
1944 Lesley J McNair US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-L“
1946 Narziss Oh German psychology, dies
1952 Herbert Murrill composer, dies at 43
1955 Ilmari Hannikainen composer, dies at 62
     Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky composer, dies at 55
1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel woman's wrestling champ (WWF)
     Harry Warner US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
1959 Isaac Halevi Herzog chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
1961 J H F Gr”nloh [Nescio], author (Above the Vale), dies at 80
1966 Montgomery Clift movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
1969 Douglas Stuart Moore composer, dies at 75
1971 Leroy Robertson composer, dies at 74
1981 Ian Martin actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), dies at 69
1982 Beene Dubbelboer writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76
1983 Jerome Moross composer, dies at 69
1986 Theodore H "Ted" Lyons pitcher (Chic White Sox), dies at 85
     Vincente Minnelli movie director, dies in LA at 76
1987 Malcolm Baldrige Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries
1991 Brian Haines dies at 70
     Kaganovitch Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies
     Toni Gerry dies at 61
1992 Alfred Drake Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 77
     Hope Miller dies of breast cancer at 63
1993 Nan Grey actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday
1995 Charlie Rich country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
 Holidays Which Occur July 25: 
     Costa Rica Annexation of Guanacaste Day/Anexi¢n de Guanacaste
     Luiza Puerto Rico Fiest of Santiago Ap¢stal
     Puerto Rico Constitution Day (1952)
     Tunisia Republic Day (1957)
 Religious Observances on July 25: 
     RC, Luth, Ang, Cong Feast of St James the Elder, apostle
     RC Christoforus [Reprobus), martyr/patron of automobiles
     RC Guido of Anderlecht, koster to Sheet/pilgrim
     RC Jakobus, apostle
 250 RC Commemoration of St Christopher, patron of travelers
 Things to Remember for July 25: 
     Baked Beans-Hot Dog-Ice Cream-Hitch Hiking Month
     Flowers-water lily & larkspur         Gem-ruby
     Park & Recreation Month-National Picnic Month
 21 Days Dog Days
 27 Days Astrological sign:  Leo
     [Ancient Rome] Furrinalia
 Highlights in History Which Occur July 25: 
 841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king
1215 Frederik II (20) crowned king of German
1261 Emperor Michael VIII of Byzantium recaptures Constantinople
1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1511 Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
1519 San Cristob l de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vr˜dagmarkt Gent
1554 English queen Mary I marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1564 Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor
1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French govt army
1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
1652 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
 and Don Juan Domingo Zu¤iga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
 and Vienna Austria expels Jews
1689 France declares war on England
1729 North Carolina becomes royal colony
1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1792 Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1822 Gen Agust¡n de Iturbide crowned Agust¡n I, 1st emperor of M‚xico
1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1848 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1860 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1861 Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is passed stating
     Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops forcing
 and that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold
 and the Constitution, not to alter slavery in it's forms form
 and their retreat. [->JUL 26]
1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy
 and US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1871 Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1902 Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1909 France's Louis Bl‚riot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
 and Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1914 Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
 and Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1930 Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1934 Failed nazi coup in Austria
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1641 Tana
1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
 and G Neujmin discovers asteroid #3761
1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
 and Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 5th Dutch govt of Colijn, forms
 and NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
1941 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
 and Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1942 German troops occupy Rostov
 and German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
 and Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
 and Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
 and RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
 and Allied jailbreak at St-L“ (behind German lines)
 and US troop march into Guam
 and USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-L“
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
 and US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
 and US Department of Army created
1949 St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
1950 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1799 Koussevitzky,
     #1822 Waterman & #2842
1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1714 Sy
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
 and Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1788 Kiess
 and Puerto Rico's constitution goes into effect
1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10› to 15›, 1st use of subway tokens
1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
 and Jack Burke wins PGA golf tournament
 and Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
 and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 Company Industrielle et ForestŠre (Indufor) forms in Brussels
 and US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
 and US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
 and Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
 and Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
 and Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #1993 Guacolda
 and Pope Paul VI encyclical On regulation of birth
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1972 NL beats AL 4-3 in 43rd All Star Game (Fulton County Stad, Atlanta)
 and US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in
     40 year syphilis experiment
1973 George Harrison pays œ1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
 and USSR launches Mars 5
1974 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik
1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
 and Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
 and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1982 France performs nuclear test
1983 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
 and Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
 and Steve Cram runs world record 1 mile (3:46.32)
 and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
 and Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
 and USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1990 KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
 and Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
 and Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
 and US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
 and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-Los Angeles)
 and Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1993 Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
 and Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
 and Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1994 Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC)
 Your Special Reminders for July 25: 
     1953   57øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 1987   95øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 206th day of year with 159 days left   (Numerology = 5)