25 July
Notable Births
Alperen Şengün
b. 2002
Turkish basketball player (born 2002)
Adam Hložek
b. 2002
Czech footballer (born 2002)
Bryce Young
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
Meg Donnelly
b. 2000
American actress (born 2000)
Zhang Hao (singer)
b. 2000
Chinese singer (born 2000)
Nat Butcher
b. 1997
Australian rugby league footballer
Alvin Kamara
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Maria Sakkari
b. 1995
Greek tennis player (born 1995)
Natalija Stevanović
b. 1994
Serbian tennis player
Andrei Vasilevskiy
b. 1994
Russian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Toni Duggan
b. 1991
English footballer (born 1991)
Hasan Piker
b. 1991
American political commentator (born 1991)
Natalia Vieru
b. 1989
Moldavian-born Russian basketball player
Sarah Geronimo
b. 1988
Filipino singer and actress (born 1988)
John Goossens
b. 1988
Dutch footballer (born 1988)
Tom Hiariej
b. 1988
Dutch footballer (born 1988)
Stacey Kemp
b. 1988
English pair skater
Paulinho (footballer, born July 1988)
b. 1988
Brazilian footballer
Anthony Stokes
b. 1988
Irish association football player (born 1988)
James I of Scotland
b. 1394
15th-century King of Scots
Notable Deaths
Shafin Ahmed
d. 2024
Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (1961–2024)
Martin Indyk
d. 2024
American diplomat (1951–2024)
Paul Sorvino
d. 2022
American actor (1939–2022)
Peter Green (musician)
d. 2020
English musician (1946–2020)
Beji Caid Essebsi
d. 2019
President of Tunisia from 2014 to 2019
Sergio Marchionne
d. 2018
Italian-Canadian businessman (1952–2018)
Michael Johnson (singer)
d. 2017
American musician and singer (1944–2017)
Tim LaHaye
d. 2016
Evangelical Christian minister and author from the United States
R. S. Gavai
d. 2015
Indian politician
Bob Kauffman
d. 2015
American basketball player and coach
Bel Kaufman
d. 2014
American novelist
Walter De Maria
d. 2013
American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer (1935 – 2013)
Hugh Huxley
d. 2013
English biologist (1924–2013)
Barry Langford
d. 2012
British television and music director (1926–2012)
Franz West
d. 2012
Austrian artist (1947–2012)
Michael Cacoyannis
d. 2011
Greek film and stage director (1922–2011)
Stanley Middleton
d. 2009
British novelist (1919–2009)
Harry Patch
d. 2009
English soldier and supercentenarian (1898–2009)
Yasmin Ahmad
d. 2009
Malaysian film director
Tracy Hall
d. 2008
American chemist
On This Day in History
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2019
National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
2019 European heatwaves
2018
As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
2018 Suwayda attacks
2010
WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
WikiLeaks
2007
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
Pratibha Patil
2001
Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.
Phoolan Devi
2000
Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.
Concorde
1996
In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
1996 Burundian coup d'état
1995
A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1995 France bombings
1994
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
Jordan
1993
Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
Lebanon
1993
The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
Saint James Church massacre
1984
Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
Salyut 7
1983
Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
Black July
1979
In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt–Israel peace treaty
1978
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
Puerto Rico
1978
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
Louise Brown
1976
Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
Viking program
1973
Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
Soviet Union
1971
The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.
Sohagpur massacre
1969
Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
Vietnam War