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July 25, 2014 Friday
Today in History: July 25
TODAY is Friday, July 25, 2014. On this day:
1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1759 - British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
1845 - China granted Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France
and the United States.
1854 - The paper collar was patented by Walter Hunt.
1862 - After successfully crossing Australia from south to north, John
McDouall Stuart raises the British flag at the mouth of the Mary
River.
1871 - Seth Wheeler patented perforated wrapping paper.
1907 - Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in
a monoplane.
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.
1973 - The numbat is proclaimed as Western Australia's official faunal emblem.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham,
England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to
walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
1994 - Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had
existed between them since 1948.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second
American to win the race.
2010 - WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal
reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.
July 25, 2014 Friday
Today in History: July 25
TODAY is Friday, July 25, 2014. On this day:
1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1759 - British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
1845 - China granted Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France
and the United States.
1854 - The paper collar was patented by Walter Hunt.
1862 - After successfully crossing Australia from south to north, John
McDouall Stuart raises the British flag at the mouth of the Mary
River.
1871 - Seth Wheeler patented perforated wrapping paper.
1907 - Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in
a monoplane.
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.
1973 - The numbat is proclaimed as Western Australia's official faunal emblem.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham,
England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to
walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
1994 - Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had
existed between them since 1948.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second
American to win the race.
2010 - WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal
reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.