 n this Day in History July 25:
0841 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 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII 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 Vrijdagmarkt Gent
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
1670 Don Juan Domingo Zu¤iga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
1670 Vienna Austria expels Jews
1689 France declares war on England
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
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
1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
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 that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy
1866 US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1871 Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1902 James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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
1913 Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1914 Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914 Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
1918 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
1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 5th & last Dutch govt of Colijn, forms
1939 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
1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1942 German troops occupy Rostov
1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1944 -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1944 Allied jailbreak at St-L“ (behind German lines)
1944 US troop march into Guam
1944 USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-L“
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1947 US Department of Army created
1949 St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth
1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10› to 15›, 1st use of subway tokens
1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1956 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley
1957 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1960 Company Industrielle et ForestŠre (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1960 US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964 "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1971 Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
1972 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
1973 USSR launches Mars 5
1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1980 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1982 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 37th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 France performs nuclear Test
1983 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 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
1985 Steve Cram runs world record 1 mile (3:46.32)
1985 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 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
1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
1990 KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1990 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1991 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
1993 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
1993 Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1993 Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1994 Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC)
1996 Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
1997 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
1997 QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
1999 54th US Women's Open Golf Championship
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