July 25 in History

Historical Events on July 25

1783 American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.

1814 War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.

1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.

1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.

1965 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

1969 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.

1973 Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.

1978 Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.

2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

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Famous Birthdays on July 25

1848 Arthur Balfour

1951 Jack Thompson (activist)

1979 Ali Carter

1985 Nelson Piquet Jr.

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Famous Deaths on July 25

1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1973 Louis St. Laurent

1980 Vladimir Vysotsky

1997 Ben Hogan

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