On This Day for July 25 - American advance into Canada halted by British troops, Thomas Eakins is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-25 10:02 Updated: 2020-07-25 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 25

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Thomas Eakins

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1814

American advance into Canada halted by British troops

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2007: Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India, becoming the first woman to hold the office. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about India.]

2000: A Concorde supersonic airplane—Air France flight 4590—crashed outside Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four others on the ground; the event was believed to have hastened the end of all Concorde operations three years later.

1984: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. [Take our quiz about famous astronauts and cosmonauts.]

1978: Louise Brown, the first human conceived using in vitro fertilization, was born in England. [Test your knowledge of medical conditions and discoveries.]

1965: At the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival, American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan initially eschewed his acoustic guitar to go electric; the controversial performance is considered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of rock and roll. [Test your knowledge of songwriters.]

1919: A member of the foreign ministry of the newly formed Soviet government, Lev Karakhan, issued the Karakhan Manifesto, in which he offered to relinquish all Soviet claims to the special rights and privileges in China won by the Russian tsarist government. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Russia.]

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1954

Walter Payton
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Walter Brennan
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1941

Emmett Till
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Gavrilo Princip
Slavic nationalist

1920

Rosalind Franklin
British scientist