Today
in History
July 25
George Stephenson
Louis Bleriot
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| 1109 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85) was born |
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| 1139 At the battle of Ourique, Alfonso Henriques defeated the Moors and became Alfonso I of Portugal. | ||
| 1215 Frederik II (20) crowned king of German | ||
| 1261 Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII recovered Constantinople and was crowned there. He thus deposed John IV, ending the Latin Empire. | ||
| 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 Vrijdagmarkt Gent | ||
| 1554 Queen Mary I of England married Philip II of Spain at Winchester. | ||
| 1564 Maximilian II, king of Hungary and Bohemia, became Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Ferdinand I | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1666 The English fleet defeated the Dutch in the second naval battle of the Foreland. | ||
| 1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna | ||
| 1670 Don Juan Domingo Zuriga y Fonseca becomes govovernator-general of Southern Netherland | ||
| 1689 King Louis XIV of France declared war on Britain. | ||
| 1712 The Protestant cantons led by Berne defeated the Catholic cantons at the Battle of Villmergen, ending the religious wars in Switzerland. | ||
| 1725 The Duke of Brunswick issued a manifesto threatening to destroy Paris if the French royal family was harmed. | ||
| 1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony | ||
| 1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) | ||
| 1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta |
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| 1797 British naval commander Horatio Nelson's right arm was shattered by grapeshot during an assault on Tenerife. The injured arm was amputated later. | ||
| 1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir | ||
| 1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British | ||
| 1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive | ||
| 1822 Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico | ||
| 1830 King Charles X of France issued five ordinances; for controlling press, dissolving Chambers and changing the electoral system. | ||
| 1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies | ||
| 1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine | ||
| 1848 The Austrians defeated the forces of Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, at the Battle of Custozza, suppressing first efforts toward the unification of Italy. | ||
| 1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy | ||
| 1866 Ulysses S. Grant was appointed General of the U.S. Army, the first American officer to be so designated | ||
| 1871 Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa | George Stephenson |
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| 1898 In the Spanish-American War, Maj. Gen. Nelson Mile's U.S. forces occupied Puerto Rico. | ||
| 1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes | ||
| 1907 Japan received protectorate over Korea thus giving Japan control over its government. | ||
| 1909 Louis Bleriot made the first crossing of the English Channel by air, flying his monoplane from Les Baraques, near Calais, to Dover. | ||
| 1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies | ||
| 1917 Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death on charges of spying for Germany during World War I. | ||
| 1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California | ||
| 1920 French forces occupied Damascus; Greeks under King Alexander occupied Adrianople, Turkey. | ||
| 1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 | ||
| 1929 Pope Pius XI became the first pope to leave the Vatican since the fall of the Papal States in 1870. | ||
| 1934 Failed nazi coup in Austria | ||
| 1934 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated in Vienna by Nazis | ||
| 1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany | ||
| 1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) | ||
| 1941 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan | ||
| 1942 German troops occupy Rostov |
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| 1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja | ||
| 1943 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was forced to resign after a meeting of his Grand Council. King Victor Emmanuel appointed Marshal Badoglio as prime minister. | ||
| 1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam | ||
| 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) | ||
| 1944 US troop march into Guam | ||
| 1944 USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-L“ | ||
| 1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion) | ||
| 1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense | ||
| 1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day) | ||
| 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth | Louis Bleriot |
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| 1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm | ||
| 1956 Jordan attacks UN Palestine force | ||
| 1957 Tunisia became a republic with Habib Bourguiba as president. | ||
| 1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley | ||
| 1959 The hovercraft made its first crossing of the English Channel from Dover to Calais. | ||
| 1960 Company Industrielle et ForestŠre (Indufor) forms in Brussels | ||
| 1960 US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate | ||
| 1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex | ||
| 1963 U.S., Soviet Union and Britain agreed on a treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water. | ||
| 1964 Race riot in Rochester NY | ||
| 1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River | ||
| 1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth | ||
| 1978 The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire, England. | ||
| 1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die | ||
| 1982 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a document in Beirut accepting U.N. resolutions on Israel's right to exist. | ||
| 1983 The United States flew aid to President Hissene Habre of Chad to help fight Libyan-backed guerrillas. | ||
| 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space | ||
| 1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup | ||
| 1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India | ||
| 1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute | ||
| 1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon | ||
| 1994 Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC) | ||
| 1994 Israeli and Jordanian leaders signed a historic declaration in Washington ending the state of war between them. | ||
| 1995 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic were charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal. | ||
| 1996 Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army seized power in a coup, outlawed political parties, closed the airport and land borders. | ||
C.H. OSTFELD, INC.