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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