On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 25:
0975 Thietmar bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1109 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85)
1575 Christoph Scheiner Germany, astronomer
1775 Anna Symmes Harrison 1st lady
1795 James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
1822 Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1824 Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1840 Flora Adams Darling founded Daughters of American Revolution
1848 Arthur Earl Balfour (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
1884 Davidson Black Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
1894 Walter Brennan Swampscott Mass, actor (My Darling Clementine, Real McCoys)
1902 Eric Hoffer longshoreman/author (True Believer)
1907 Jack Gilford NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)
1924 Estelle Getty NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls)
1924 Frank Church (Sen-D-Id) (Weakened the CIA)
1925 Jerry Paris SF Calif, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1927 Midge Decter St Paul Minn,Evil right-wing ideologue writer (An Old Wife's Tale, Rumsfeld...)
1930 Maureen Forrester Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
1932 Paul J Weitz Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
1935 Adnan Khashoggi, billionaire arms dealer
1943 Jim McCarty rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1948 Steve Goodman Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble)
1954 Walter "Sweetness" Payton NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1957 Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77)
1957 Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother
1967 Matt LeBlanc, actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
1975 Jay R Ferguson Jr Dallas Tx, actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade)
1978 Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1978 Louise Brown Oldham England, world's 1st `test tube baby'
2003 Logan, AKA Texas Termite, world famous heart throb, monarch of all he surveys.
"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Deaths which occurred on July 25:
0306 Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies
1492 Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1570 Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1616 Andreas Libavius German alchemist, dies
1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61
1864 Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 42
1934 Engelbert Dollfuss Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
1944 Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo
1958 Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
1959 Dr Isaac Halevi Herzog chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
1966 Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
1986 Vincente Minnelli movie director, dies in LA at 76
1987 Malcolm Baldrige Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries
1995 Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
1997 Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84
1997 Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89
2003 John Schlesinger (b.1926), film director, died. ("Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
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On this day...
0326 Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices.
0841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1394 Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
1587 Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave.
1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
1670 Jews are expelled from Vienna Austria
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
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
1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1860 1st US intercollegiate billard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1861 The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress.
1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho)
1871 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1909 French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane, traveling from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.
1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1930 Phila Athletics triple steal in the 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
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 River
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
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 Deptartment of the 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
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1953 Truce signed between North Korea & United Nations forces.
1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm
1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic
1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title
1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header
1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night", album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival (He's booed)
1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical On the regulation of birth
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment
1973 USSR launches Mars 5
1974 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik
1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers
1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 The first test-tube baby, Louis Brown, is born in Oldham, England.
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1983 1st 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 1st woman to walk in space
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he had AIDS
1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1986 Former Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth was convicted of selling U.S. military secrets to the Soviets through the John Walker spy ring. The government called it the most damaging espionage since World War II.
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game(booed)
1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute (WRONG!)
1991 A deadline for Iraq to provide full details of its weapons of mass destruction passed, with U.S. officials indicating military action was not imminent.
1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 Army refuses to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Samuel Mudd (Lincoln plot)
1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war.
1995 Radovan Karadzic and Gen’l. Ratko Mladic and 22 other Serbs are indicted for genocide by the UN War Crimes Hague Tribunal
1997 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
1997 Rituximab, a drug designed to treat B-cell lymphoma ok'd by FDA
1999 Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France
2000 Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate. (Halibuton! Halibuton! Halibuton! Halibuton! Halibuton! Did you know Dick Cheney ran Halibuton? That's right, now Halibuton runs the countryThis has been confirmed to me by the 2 CFR agents that live under my bed.)
2000 In Zimbabwe at least 230 white farmers quit working along with some businessmen in Karoi to protest the breakdown in law and order
2002 Encouraged by a tinny tapping sound coming up from the depths, rescuers in Somerset, Pa., brought in a huge drill in a race to save nine coal miners trapped 240 feet underground by a flooded shaft
2004 Lance Armstrong (32) becomes the 1st 6-time winner of the 2,107-mile Tour de France
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Ancient Rome : Furrinalia
Costa Rica : Annexation of Guanacaste Day/Anexi¢n de Guanacaste
Luiza Puerto Rico : Fiest of Santiago Ap¢stal
Netherlands : Independence Day
Puerto Rico : Constitution Day (1952)
Tunisia : Republic Day (1957)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day
Christmas In July.
Threading the Needle Day
National Eye Exam Month
Religious Observances
RC, Luth, Ang, Cong : Feast of St James the Elder, apostle
RC : Commemoration of St Christopher, patron of travelers
Religious History
0325 The Council of Nicea closed. Regarded as the first 'ecumenical council,' its 300attending bishops drafted the Nicene Creed and fixed the formula for Easter Sunday.
1741 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Your extremity shall beGod's opportunity.'
1845 Canadian-born Catholic missionary Fran‡ois Blanchet was consecrated bishop of thePacific Northwest. He devoted 45 years to planting churches, and is remembered today as the'Apostle of Oregon.'
1899 Birth of Stuart K. Hine. While an English missionary to the Ukraine, Hine pennedthe English words to an oft-sung Swedish hymn, known today as 'How Great Thou Art.'
1968 Pope Paul VI published the encyclical 'Humanae Vitae.' It restated the Catholicposition on the family, and condemned all artificial methods of birth control.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
ROBERTS PROMISES STRICTER CONTROLS ON FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON
Child’s Rampage Through D.C. Prompts Nominee’s Conservative Stance
John G. Roberts, President Bush’s nominee for the United States Supreme Court, said today that if confirmed to the nation’s highest court he would support stricter controls on his four-year-old son, Jack, two days after the mischievous tyke led the police on a terrifying high-speed chase through Washington, D.C.
The first hint of trouble involving the younger Mr. Roberts came during the president’s introduction of his nominee to the press on Tuesday, when four-year-old Jack wandered about the stage at the White House, attempting to break free from his mother.
But matters took a decided turn for the worse moments after the press event, when Jack somehow eluded the security detail and commandeered a Secret Service vehicle parked outside the White House.
The irrepressible four-year-old then led the Washington, D.C. police on a high-speed chase which ended at a Toys ‘R’ Us in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was finally subdued.
At a press conference following young Mr. Roberts’ rampage, Judge Roberts revealed his conservative bent, telling reporters, “According to my reading of the constitution, the framers would have approved putting a shorter leash on my son, and that spirit will inform my decisions going forward.”
But at the White House, insiders worried that young Jack Roberts could prove to be more of a headache to the president than he is worth.
Thought for the day :
"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."
Eric Hoffer
