Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 25
This is a list of selected July 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Pratibha Patil
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day in Galicia, Spain; | refimprove |
| Constitution Day in Puerto Rico (1952) | unreferenced section |
| 1536 – Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded Santiago de Cali in present-day western Colombia while on his search for the mythical city of El Dorado. | refimprove section |
| 1567 – Caracas, today the capital and largest city of Venezuela, was founded as Santiago de Leon de Caracas by Spanish explorer Diego de Losada. | refimprove section |
| 1609 – During a hurricane, the English sailing ship Sea Venture became grounded on the reefs of Bermuda, which is widely believed to have inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest. | refimprove section |
| 1722 – Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts, declared war on the Abenaki people to begin Dummer's War. | refimprove sections |
| 1792 – French Revolutionary Wars: Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick issued the Brunswick Manifesto to the population of Paris, promising vengeance if King Louis XVI and other members of the French royal family were harmed. | Charles: needs more footnotes, expansion; Manifesto: needs more footnotes |
| 1799 – French invasion of Egypt: Napoleon's decisive victory over a combined Ottoman–British force in the Battle of Abukir temporarily secured Egypt for France. | unreferenced sections |
| 1814 – War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United States and Great Britain engaged in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil. | refimprove section |
| 1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to Dover, England. | refimprove section |
| 1943 – The Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini, who was arrested the same day by King Victor Emmanuel III and replaced by Pietro Badoglio. | expansion |
| 1948 – In Test cricket, Australia set a world record for the highest successful run-chase in history during the Fourth Test of The Ashes series against England. | Is this record important? List of Test cricket records doesn't include it. If it's not an important record, then it wouldn't belong here. |
| 1957 – More than a year after obtaining independence from France, Tunisia abolished its monarchy and became a republic. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – In a classic example of pareidolia, the Viking 1 spacecraft took a photo of what appeared to be a face on Mars. | refimprove section |
| 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation, was born in Oldham, England. | unreferenced section |
| 1993 – Israeli forces launched a week-long attack against Lebanon to make it difficult for Hezbollah to use southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 306 – Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus.
- 1139 – Prince Afonso Henriques led Portuguese troops to victory over the Almoravid Moors at the Battle of Ourique.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passed the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, asserting that the war was solely to prevent the dissolution of the nation, although this was repealed five months later.
- 1898 – Spanish–American War: After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invaded Puerto Rico.
- 1965 – Bob Dylan, who had previously been known for folk music, gave a controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival playing songs with an electric guitar.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world", beginning the Vietnamization of the war.
- 1978 – Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed in a police ambush at Cerro Maravilla in Ponce.
- 2007 – Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.
- Born/died this day: Henry Percy (b. 1421) | Thomas Eakins (b. 1844) | James Barry (d. 1865) | Maxfield Parrish (b. 1870) | Erika Steinbach (b. 1943) | Louise Brown (b. 1978) | Randy Pausch (d. 2008)
Notes
- Chelsea Manning is on February 18, so Afghan War documents leak should not appear in the same year
- Viking 1 is on July 20, so Cydonia should not appear in the same year
- Kitchen Debate is on July 24, so Nixon Doctrine should not appear in the same year
July 25: Feast day of Saint James the Great (Western Christianity)
Corinth Canal
- 1261 – Nicaean–Latin wars: Alexios Strategopoulos led Nicaean forces to recapture Constantinople, leading to the re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the Latin Empire.
- 1788 – Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40, one of his two extant minor-key symphonies.
- 1893 – The Corinth Canal (pictured), which bisects Greece's narrow Isthmus of Corinth, was formally opened, connecting the Ionian Sea's Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
- 2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109 passengers on board and four people on the ground.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan in one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
- Isaac Luria (d. 1572)
- Rosalind Franklin (b. 1920)
- Gladys Bustamante (d. 2009)