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.
0306 – Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
0326 – Constantine refused to carry out the traditional pagan sacrifices.
1120 – Large fire in church of Saint Madeleine of Vézelay, France, kills a thousand pilgrims and seriously damages the church
1394 – Charles VI of France issued a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.
1536 – Sebastin de Belalczar on his search of El Dorado found the City of Santiago de Cali.
1564 – Maximillian II became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1587 – Japanese strong-man Hideyoshi banned Christianity in Japan and ordered all Christians to leave.
1593 – France’s King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain.
1722 – Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border.
1755 – The decision to deport the Acadians takes place in Halifax. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later moved to Louisiana, while others later resettled in New Brunswick
1759 – British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain).
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
1805 – Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.
1845 – China granted Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States.
1850 – Gold was discovered in the Rogue River in OR.
1854 – The paper collar was patented by Walter Hunt.
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. https://civilwarmonths.com/2021/07/25/the-crittenden-johnson-resolution-2/
1866 – Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.
1868 – The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1897 – Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories
1907 – Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
1914 – Russia declared that it would act to protect Serbian sovereignty.
1918 – Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1924 – Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
1934 – Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1941 – The U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets.
1943 – With American and British forces racing across Sicily, Italian King Emmanuel III, acting under the recommendation of the Fascist Grand Council, dismissed Fascist leader Benito Mussolini and placed him under arrest
1946 – The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.
1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a “”constitution”” of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current International Law.
1956 – Tunisia gains its independence from France
1964 – Race riot in Rochester NY
1968 – Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical “Humanae vitae (Of Human Life)” which rejects any artificial forms of birth control
1972 – US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment
1976 – The infamous Face on Mars and pyramids were photographed.
1978 – Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1981 – Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1984 – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
1986 – Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1990 – US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won’t take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1992 – Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War
1994 – Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948.
1995 – A gas bottle exploded in station Saint Michel of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight were killed and 80 wounded.
1998 – The USS Harry S. Truman was commissioned and put into service by the U.S. Navy.
2001 – Faced with declining oil prices, OPEC ministers agree to cut crude oil production quotas by about 4%, or 1 million barrels per day
2007 – India gets its first female president, Pratibha Patil, a politician stayed in office as the head of state of the South Asian country for 5 years.
2007 – Jeremy Clarkson and James May reached the North Pole by driving a Toyota Pick-up truck
2010 – WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.
2014 – Palestinian officials call for a “Day of Rage” in the West Bank and within Israel against Israel’s operation against Gaza; Israeli Defence Force prepares for protests
2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo
2017 – Israeli authorities remove new metal detectors from Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif after Palestinian protests amid rising tensions in Jerusalem
2018 – Georgian representative James Spencer resigns after being fooled into saying racial slurs on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who is America” TV series
2018 – Multiple suicide bombings and attacks by the Islamic State in Sweida and surrounding areas of Syria kill more than 200
2019 – US Justice department announces resumption of use of the death penalty, scheduling five executions
2022 – UN says 209 people killed in gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, including no-gang members over 10 days, with a further 254 injured with gunshot wounds
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
