History for July 25

History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com:
Morris Raphel Cohen 1880, Walter Brennan 1894, Eric Hoffer 1902


Barbara Harris 1935, Walter Payton (NFL) 1954, Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")


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.


1924 - Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.


1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.


1946 - The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.


1946 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, NJ.


1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.