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Saturday, July 25, 2015
History for July 25
History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com:
Walter Brennan 1894 , Eric Hoffer 1902, Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) 1943
Walter Payton (NFL) 1954, Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends"), Brad Renfro 1982
1759 - British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
1861 - The Crittenden Resolution, which called for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.
1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel.
1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.
1946 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, NJ.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second American to win the race.
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