Summary of the Day ✨ 25 July (25/07)
Europe experienced unprecedented heat as national temperature records were simultaneously broken in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during a July heat wave, while WikiLeaks released one of the largest military document leaks in US history regarding the War in Afghanistan. In political developments, India witnessed both historic progress with Pratibha Patil becoming the country’s first female president and tragedy
Historical Events 📜
- 2019: National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
- 2018: As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
- 2010: WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
- 2007: Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
- 2001: Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.
- 2000: Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.
- 1996: In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 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.
- 1994: Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1993: Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
- 1993: The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1983: Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1979: In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1978: Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
Famous Births 👶
- 2002: Alperen Şengün, Turkish basketball player
- 2002: Adam Hložek, Czech footballer
- 2001: Bryce Young, American football player
- 2000: Meg Donnelly, American actress
- 2000: Zhang Hao, Chinese singer
- 1997: Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player
- 1995: Alvin Kamara, American football player
- 1995: Maria Sakkari, Greek tennis player
- 1994: Natalija Stevanović, Serbian tennis player
- 1994: Andrei Vasilevskiy, Russian ice hockey player
- 1992: Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (died 2016)
- 1991: Toni Duggan, English footballer
- 1991: Hasan Piker, American Twitch streamer
- 1990: Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer
- 1989: Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2024: Shafin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (born 1961)
- 2024: Martin Indyk, American diplomat (born 1951)
- 2022: Paul Sorvino, American actor (born 1939)
- 2020: Peter Green, English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac (born 1946)
- 2020: Lou Henson, American college basketball coach (born 1932)
- 2019: Beji Caid Essebsi, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1926)
- 2018: Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman (born 1952)
- 2017: Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
- 2016: Tim LaHaye, American Christian minister and author (born 1926)
- 2016: Tom Peterson, American television personality (born 1930)
- 2015: Jacques Andreani, French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (born 1929)
- 2015: R. S. Gavai, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (born 1929)
- 2015: Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (born 1946)
- 2014: Bel Kaufman, German-American author and academic (born 1911)
- 2014: Richard Larter, Australian painter and illustrator (born 1929)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Anne (Eastern Christianity) - Christian feast day:
Christopher (Western Christianity) - Christian feast day:
Cucuphas - Christian feast day:
Glodesind - Christian feast day:
James the Great (Western Christianity) - Christian feast day:
John I Agnus - Christian feast day:
Julian of Le Mans (translation) - Christian feast day:
Magnerich of Trier - Christian feast day:
July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
- National Baha’i Day (Jamaica)
- National Day of Galicia (Galicia, Spain)
- Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
- International Afro-descendant Women’s Day
- Tenjin Matsuri (Osaka, Japan)