Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 25 throughout history.
In late June and late July 2019 there were two temporally distinct European heat waves, which set all-time high temperature records in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Ne…
National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019…
The 2018 Suwayda attacks were a string of suicide bombings and mass shooting incidents in Suwayda, Syria on 25 July 2018. At least 258 people were killed and 180 wounded. The atta…
As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other m…
WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military…
Pratibha Devisingh Patil, also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, is an Indian stateswoman and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first wom…
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
Phoolan Devi, popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who became a politician, serving as a member of parliament until her assassination. She was a woma…
Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.
Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies began in 1954 and a …
Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport,…
The 1996 Burundian coup d'état was a military coup d'état that took place in Burundi on 25 July 1996. In the midst of the Burundi Civil War, former president Pierre Buyoya deposed…
In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
A series of attacks targeted public transport systems in Paris and Lyon, as well as a school in Villeurbanne, in 1995. They were carried out by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria …
A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed…
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arab…
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the…
Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is b…
Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese…
The Saint James Church massacre was a massacre perpetrated on St James Church of England in South Africa in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa, on 25 July 1993 by four members of…
The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
Salyut 7, also known as DOS-6, was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. It was first crewed in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5, and last visit…
Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
Black July was an anti-Tamil pogrom that occurred in Sri Lanka during July 1983. The pogrom was premeditated, and was finally triggered by a deadly ambush on a Sri Lankan Army pat…
Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by…
The Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., United States, on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The treaty was signed by Anwar Sadat, Preside…
In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under t…
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
Louise Joy Brown is an English woman noted as the first human born following conception by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has…
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2 both launched in 1975, and landed on Mars in 1976. The mission effort began in 196…
Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its disso…
Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
The Sohagpur massacre was a mass killing of 187 civilians on 25 July 1971 in the Mymensingh District of East Pakistan during the Liberation War. The massacre was perpetrated by th…
The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Uni…
Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its…