Todays GK Facts in History | 25 July
Todays GK Facts in History
Todays GK Facts in History for UPSC/IAS Exams: The GK section of Miliposts aims to help every competitive exam aspirant to revise the day comfortably.
25 July
2000
- The Concorde supersonic airliner crashed outside Paris after takeoff.
1984
- Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1978
- The first test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Oldham, England.
1956
- The Italian ship Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the coast of New England, killing 51 people.
1952
- Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the United States.
1946
- The United States tested the first underwater nuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll.
1944
- Allied forces began an advance on the German lines in Normandy.
1943
- Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.
1941
- The US government has frozen Japanese and Chinese assets.
1935
- Barbara Harris, actress.
1934
- Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss was shot dead by the Nazis.
1927
- Midge Decter, writer and editor.
1924
- Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
1914
- Russia announced that it would act to protect Serbian sovereignty.
1909
- French aviator Louis Bleriot has become the first person to cross the English Channel in a plane.
1907
- Johnny Hodges, a jazz musician.
1902
- Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and philosopher (True Faith, Before the Sabbath),
1894
- Japanese forces sank the British steamer Causing, bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea.
1880
- Maurice Raphael Cohen, American philosopher and mathematician.
1867
- President Andrew Johnson signed a law creating the Territory of Wyoming.1861
Crittenden’s resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to defend the Union, not slavery, has been passed by Congress.
1853
- David Belasco, actor, playwright and producer.
1850
- Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the search for gold to the Pacific coast.
1848
- Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of England (1902-1905).
1845
- China grants Belgium equal trade rights with Britain, France and the United States.
1844
- Thomas Eakins, American painter.
1814
- British and American forces fight to a stalemate on Lundy Lane, Canada.
1799
- Returning from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Abukir, Egypt.
1759
- British forces defeat a French force at Fort Niagara, Canada.
1587
- Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave.
1564
- Maximilian II became Holy Roman Emperor.
1394
- Charles VI of France issued a decree calling for the general expulsion of the Jews from France.
0326
- Emperor Constantine refused to perform traditional pagan sacrifices.
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