July 25th in History – Timespinner Press

King James I of England and VI of Scotland (artist unknown)

Constantine is proclaimed emperor of Rome (306)
James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of England, uniting the two kingdoms in personal union (1603)
The electric telegraph is used commercially for the first time (1837)
The US seizes Puerto Rico from Spain (1898)
Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel in an airplane (1909)
Benito Mussolini is forced out of office in Italy (1943)
An atomic bomb is detonated in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll (1946)
Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival (1965)
Viking 1 takes the famous “face on Mars” photo (1976)
First human born after conception by in vitro fertilization (1978)
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk (1984)
WikiLeaks releases classified documents about the war in Afghanistan (2010)

Thomas Eakins, painter (1844)
Maxfield Parris, painter and illustrator (1870)
Walter Brennan, actor (1894)
Josephine Tey, author (1896)
Eric Hoffer, philosopher (1902)
Woody Strode, football player and actor (1914)
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., US pilot, elder brother of US President John F. Kennedy (1915)
Estelle Getty, actress (1923)
Jerry Paris, actor (1925)
Eddie Mazur, ice hockey player (1929)
Walter Payton, football player (1954)
Iman, model and actress (1955)
Matt LeBlanc, actor (1967)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1834)
Charles Macintosh, inventor of waterproof fabric, namesake of the “Macintosh” raincoat (1843)
Frank O’Hara, poet and critic (1966)
Hal Foster, illustrator of Prince Valiant (1982)
Big Mama Thornton, singer-songwriter (1984)
Vincente Minnelli, filmmaker (1986)
Ben Hogan, golfer (1997)

July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years). There are 159 days remaining until the end of the month.