History for July 25

History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com 

Eric Hoffer 1902

• 1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.
• 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.
• 1924 - Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
• 1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.
• 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
• 2010 - WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.