TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JULY 25
0326 Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices.
1394 Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
1587 Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave.
1670 Jews are expelled from Vienna Austria
1759 British forces defeat a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1805 Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.
1814 British and American forces fight each other to a standoff at Lundy’s Lane, Canada.
1850 Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast.
1861 The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress.
1868 Territory of Wyoming created
1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III
1944 World War II: Operation Spring – one of Canada’s bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
1952 Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States.
1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment
1976 The famous Face on Mars photo is taken. Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.
1978 The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in Oldham, England.
1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1994 Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948.
1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
1998 The USS Harry S. Truman was commissioned and put into service by the U.S. Navy.
2000 The supersonic airliner Concorde crashed after takeoff outside Paris.
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
2010 WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
