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- 0306 Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 0864 Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
- 1261 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.
- 1536 Sebastin de Belalczar on his search of El Dorado found the City of Santiago de Cali.
- 1547 Henry II (France) crowned.
- 1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
- 1593 Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1603 James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain.
- 1693 Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, actual Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Len, Mxico.
- 1722 Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border.
- 1729 North Carolina becomes royal colony
- 1755 The decision to deport the Acadians takes place in Halifax. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later moved to Louisiana, while others later resettled in New Brunswick.
- 1758 Seven Years' War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
- 1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
- 1792 The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1795 The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain).
- 1799 At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 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, first emperor of M‚xico
- 1824 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1832 The first recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurred when four people were thrown off a vacant car on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts. 1 killed.
- 1837 The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1853 Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
- 1860 The first US intercollegiate billard match (Harvard vs Yales)
- 1866 US Grant named first general of Army
- 1868 Territory of Wyoming created
- 1868 Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1869 The Japanese daimy begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1871 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
- 1897 Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
- 1898 During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico, a 108-mile long, forty-mile-wide island that was one of Spain's two principle possessions in the Caribbean.
- 1898 The first US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
- 1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
- 1907 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
- 1908 Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 1909 France's Louis Bl‚riot, makes first airplane flight across Engl Channel
- 1909 Louis Blriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
- 1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
- 1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
- 1917 Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1918 Annette Adams sworn in as first woman district attorney of US, Calif
- 1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
- 1920 Telecommunications: First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1934 Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1940 General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and make surrender illegal.
- 1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
- 1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
- 1943 With American and British forces racing across Sicily, Italian King Emmanuel III, acting under the recommendation of the Fascist Grand Council, dismissed Fascist leader Benito Mussolini and placed him under arrest
- 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1944 The breakout from the Normandy beaches begins.
- 1944 The first jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
- 1944 Visitor posting - July 25, 1944 Betty Nobles Scarborough was born in Dublin, Georgia
- 1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- 1946 Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
- 1946 The first 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
- 1950 Visitor posting - July 25, 1950 Elyse Brown Simpkins was born to Don & Carolyn Brown; their only child
- 1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
- 1952 The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current International Law.
- 1956 ’One hour before midnight on July 25, 1956, the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collided with the Italian liner Andrea Doria off the coast of Nantucket,later the Andrea Doria sank
- 1956 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- 1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm
- 1956 Jordanians attack UN Palestine truce
- 1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic
- 1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title
- 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- 1961 John F. Kennedy speech emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header
- 1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
- 1964 Race riot in Rochester NY
- 1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
- 1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
- 1968 H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #1993 Guacolda
- 1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
- 1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment
- 1973 George Harrison pays œ1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
- 1973 Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
- 1973 USSR launches Mars 5
- 1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers
- 1976 The infamous Face on Mars and pyramids were photographed.
- 1978 The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
- 1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
- 1983 Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo were massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1983 The first nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
- 1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
- 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space
- 1984 Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
- 1985 Visitor posting - Audrey Claire Meyers was born - USA
- 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Madonna - Who's That Girl
- 1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
- 1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
- 1989 Visitor posting - Kelly Kathleen Dunnigan born at Schumpert Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana
- 1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
- 1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
- 1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (Los Angeles)
- 1993 Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
- 1993 The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Niall Walsh was born :) - USA
- 1994 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1995 A gas bottle exploded in station Saint Michel of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight were killed and 80 wounded.
- 1997 K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit formerly called "untouchable" to hold this office.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Danielle Smith was born 1997 - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Stacci Viktorya Pack Was Born :) - USA
- 2000 Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
- 2007 Jeremy Clarkson and James May reached the North Pole by driving a Toyota Pick-up truck
- 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president
- 2007 Visitor posting - Kyanna Graham was born daddy's little girl xx - United Kingdom
- 2008 Randy Pausch died of pancreatic cancer. He was an american professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Joe Marino And Heidi Hill applied for a marriage license in las vegas - USA
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