On This Day July 25th

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July 25th is the two-hundredth-fourth day of the year, and there are 159 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.

1567—Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, which is today the capital of Venezuela.

1609—The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.

1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

1868 – The Wyoming Territory is established.

1897 – American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to participate in the Klondike's gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories.

1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.

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

1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.

 

Birthdays

 1556 – George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (d. 1596)

1750 – Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (d. 1806).

1806 – Maria Weston Chapman, American abolitionist (d. 1885)

1847 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, physiologist, and biologist (d. 1888)

1857 – Frank J. Sprague, American naval officer and inventor (d. 1934)

1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)

1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1958)

1941 – Emmett Till, American lynching victim (d. 1955)

1946 – Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer.

1992 – Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016)

 

 

Highlighted Holiday

NATIONAL HIRE A VETERAN DAY

The term 'veteran' originates from the Latin word 'vetus', meaning 'old', and is used worldwide to refer to individuals with long careers in a specific occupation. President Abraham Lincoln advocated for the fair treatment of veterans near the end of the Second American Civil War. Following World War I, discontented veterans protested their treatment, leading to changes. The Second World War prompted further changes in veterans' treatment, with the establishment of comprehensive veterans' administrations and the G.I. Bill to support returning veterans. Marine Corps veteran Dan Caporale founded the non-profit Hire Our Heroes to employ veterans and established National Hire a Veteran Day, which is supported by the HIRE Vets Act and the HIRE Vets Medallion Program signed by President Donald Trump in 2017.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Carousel Day or Merry-Go-round Day

Earth Overshoot Day

Feast of Saint James

Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day

Hire a Veteran's Day

National Chili Dog Day

National Culinarians Day

National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

National Intern Day

National Refreshment Day

National Wine and Cheese Day

Red Shoe Day

Thread the Needle Day

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