July 25 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 25. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 77 events. Showing 61 - 77.

• 1973
  Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
• 1976
  Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
• 1978
  Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
• 1978
  Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
• 1979
  Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
• 1983
  Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
• 1984
  Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
• 1992
  Opening ceremony of 1992 Summer Olympics

• 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.
• 1994
  Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
• 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.
• 1996
  In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
• 2000
  Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
• 2002
  A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th president of India.
• 2007
  Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
• 2010
  WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.