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Old 07-25-2016, 01:32 PM   #177
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315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.

1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.

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.

1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.

1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.

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

1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).

1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.

1898 – The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guαnica, Puerto Rico.

1909 – Louis Blιriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.

1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.

1946 – Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.

1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

1959 – SR.N1, a hovercraft, crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.

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

1969 - Neil Young appeared with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time, at The Fillmore East, in New York. Young was initially asked to help out with live material only, but ended up joining the group on and off for the next 30 years.

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

1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.

1980 - AC/DC released their sixth (Wikipedia says seventh) studio album Back In Black, the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott who died on 19 February 1980 at the age of 33. The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second highest-selling album of all time, and the best-selling hard rock or heavy metal album.

2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.

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

Births

1750 – Henry Knox; 1844 – Thomas Eakins; 1875 – Jim Corbett; 1894 – Walter Brennan; 1908 – Jack Gilford; 1914 – Woody Strode; 1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.; 1923 – Estelle Getty; 1941 – Manny Charlton; 1941 – Nate Thurmond; 1948 – Steve Goodman; 1951 – Verdine White; 1954 – Walter Payton; 1965 – Illeana Douglas; 1967 – Matt LeBlanc; 1976 – Tera Patrick (porn actress); 1982 – Brad Renfro; 1985 – Nelson Piquet Jr.

Deaths

1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 1934 – Franηois Coty (Coty beauty products); 1982 – Hal Foster (created comic strip Prince Valiant); 1984 – Big Mama Thornton♪ ♫; 1986 – Vincente Minnelli; 1989 – Steve Rubell (co-owner Studio 54); 1995 – Charlie Rich♪ ♫; 1997 – Ben Hogan; 2003 – John Schlesinger (director Midnight Cowboy); 2008 – Randy Pausch
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