more events on July 25
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1984
Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to perform a space walk.
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1978
The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in Oldham, England.
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1944
Allied forces begin the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy.
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1943
Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup.
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1941
The U.S. government freezes Japanese and Chinese assets.
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1935
Barbara Harris, actress.
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1934
Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is shot and killed by Nazis.
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1927
Midge Decter, writer and editor.
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1924
Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
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1914
Russia declares that it will act to protect Serbian sovereignty.
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1909
French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel in an airplane.
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1907
Johnny Hodges, jazz musician.
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1902
Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and philosopher (The True Believer, Before the Sabbath),
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1894
Japanese forces sink the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea.
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1880
Morris Raphael Cohen, American philosopher and mathematician.
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1867
President Andrew Johnson signs an act creating the territory of Wyoming.
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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.
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1853
David Belasco, actor, playwright and producer.
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1850
Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast.
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1848
Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of England (1902-1905).
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1845
China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States.
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1844
Thomas Eakins, American painter.
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1814
British and American forces fight each other to a standoff at Lundy’s Lane, Canada.
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1799
On his way back from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
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1759
British forces defeat a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
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1587
Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave.
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1564
Maximilian II becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
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1394
Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
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326
Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices.