July 25
Today is the 206th day of 2015. There are 159 days left in the year.
1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1868 - Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1943 - King Victor Emmanuel announced to Italy that he had accepted the "resignations" of Premier Benito Mussolini and his entire cabinet, leading to the end of Italy's alliance with Nazi Germany in World War II.
1946 - The United States tested the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming 51 lives.
1965 - Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival by playing an electric guitar.
1975 - The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway.
1978 - The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.
2000 - Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
2000 - The supersonic airliner Concorde crashed after takeoff outside Paris.
2008 - California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.
Birthdays
28 - Michael Welch (actor)
30 - James Lafferty (actor)
30 - Shantel Vansanten (actress)
48 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
60 - Iman Abdulmajid (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game.
1972 - The National League won the All-Star Game 4-3 at Atlanta Stadium. Joe Morgan of the Cincinnati Reds was named MVP.
1999 - Rickey Henderson of the New York Mets drove in his 1,000th RBI of his career.
2003 - Detroit Lions president Matt Millen was fined $200,000 by the NFL for failing to interview minorities for the club's previously vacant head coaching position.
2004 - American Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the sixth consecutive year and became the only rider to win six career titles in cycling's premier event.
2011 - The NFL lockout ended with the signing of a new collective bargaining agreement.
Today is the 206th day of 2015. There are 159 days left in the year.
1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1868 - Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1943 - King Victor Emmanuel announced to Italy that he had accepted the "resignations" of Premier Benito Mussolini and his entire cabinet, leading to the end of Italy's alliance with Nazi Germany in World War II.
1946 - The United States tested the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming 51 lives.
1965 - Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival by playing an electric guitar.
1975 - The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway.
1978 - The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.
2000 - Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
2000 - The supersonic airliner Concorde crashed after takeoff outside Paris.
2008 - California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.
Birthdays
28 - Michael Welch (actor)
30 - James Lafferty (actor)
30 - Shantel Vansanten (actress)
48 - Matt LeBlanc (actor)
60 - Iman Abdulmajid (model)
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Today in Sports History - July 25
1941 - Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game.
1972 - The National League won the All-Star Game 4-3 at Atlanta Stadium. Joe Morgan of the Cincinnati Reds was named MVP.
1999 - Rickey Henderson of the New York Mets drove in his 1,000th RBI of his career.
2003 - Detroit Lions president Matt Millen was fined $200,000 by the NFL for failing to interview minorities for the club's previously vacant head coaching position.
2004 - American Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the sixth consecutive year and became the only rider to win six career titles in cycling's premier event.
2011 - The NFL lockout ended with the signing of a new collective bargaining agreement.
