25 Julie

The **25t o Julie** is the 206t day o the year (207t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 159 days ti come.

## Events

* 306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Emperor bi his troops.
* 1538 - The ceety o Guayaquil in present-day Ecuador is foondit.
* 1547 - Coronation o Henry II o Fraunce.
* 1554 - Mary I o Ingland marries Philip II o Spain.
* 1603 - James VI is crowned Keeng o both Scotland an Ingland.
* 1898 - Spaingie-American War: The Unitit States invades Puerto Rico.
* 1934 - The Nazis assassinate Austrick Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
* 1935 - Floods on Cheenae's Yangtze River kill 200,000 fowk.
* 1943 - In Italy, the Grand Cooncil o Fascism remuives Benito Mussolini frae pouer an replaces him wi Pietro Badoglio.
* 1957 - Tunisie becomes a republic, wi Habib Bourguiba as Preses.
* 1969 - A yirdquauk in Guangdong, Cheenae, kills 3,000 fowk.
* 1976 - The "Viking 1" space probe taks the "Face on Maurs" photograph.
* 1978 - Louise Brown is born in Manchester, Ingland, as the first baby conceived through IVF.
* 1984 - Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman tae perform a spacewalk.
* 1992 - Stairt o the 1992 Simmer Olympics in Barcelona.
* 1997 - K. R. Narayanan becomes Preses o Indie.
* 2000 - A Concorde airliner crashes naur Paris, killin 109 fowk.
* 2000 - Peace talks held at Camp David, Maryland, atween Israeli Prime meenister Ehud Barak an Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, fail.
* 2002 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam becomes Preses o Indie.
* 2007 - Pratibha Patil becomes Preses o Indie.
* 2010 - WikiLeaks publishes classifeed documents aboot the War in Afghanistan.
* 2012 - Pranab Mukherjee becomes Preses o Indie.
* 2017
** Ram Nath Kovind becomes Preses o Indie.
** Video gemme publisher Epic Games releases Fortnite.
* 2018 - At least 31 fowk are kilt in a bomb attack in the ceety o Quetta, Pakistan, on the day o the kintra's general election.
* 2018 - The discovery o a liquid watter loch unner Maurs' soothren polar ice cap is propaled.
* 2019 - Preses o Tunisie Beji Caid Essebsi dees while still in affice, at the age o 92.
* 2019 - A boat sinkin in the Mediterranean Sea aff Libie kills at least 150 fowk.
* 2019 - A phone conversation wi Ukrainian Preses Volodymyr Zelensky leads tae impeachment proceedins agin US Preses Donald Trump.
* 2019 - Several Wastren European kintras an ceeties record thair hottest-iver day, incluidin a record 31 degrees Celsius for the ceety o Edinburgh, an  38.7 degrees Celsius ootside the Varsity o Cambridge, which is a record for the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: North Korea reports a suspectit case o COVID-19 for the first time.

## Births

* 1016 - Casimir I the Restorer, Duke o Poland (d. 1058)
* 1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke o Argyll, Scots peer (d. 1703)
* 1848 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1930)
* 1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
* 1894 - Gavrilo Princip, assassin o Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick (d. 1918)
* 1905 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarie writer (d. 1994)
* 1920 - Rosalind Franklin, Inglis biopheesicist an chemist (d. 1958)
* 1922 - John B. Goodenough, American chemist an pheesicist, auldest person tae win a Nobel Prize 
* 1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
* 1927 - Jimmy Binning, Scots fitbawer
* 1929 - Manuel Olivencia, Spaingie lawyer an economist (d. 2018)
* 1943 - Erika Steinbach, German politeecian
* 1953 - Robert Zoellick, umwhile Warld Bank Preses
* 1954 - Paul Hegarty, Scots fitbawer an manager
* 1956 - Frances Arnold, American chemist
* 1957 - Mark Hunter, Inglis politeecian
* 1959 - Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial killer (d. 2013)
* 1966 - Darren Jackson, Scots fitbawer
* 1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
* 1978 - Louise Brown, first baby conceived through IVF
* 1979 - Michael Gray, Inglis DJ an record producer
* 1985 - Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian racin driver
* 1986 - Alan Clyne, Scots squash player
* 1986 - Hulk, Brazilian fitbawer
* 1988 - Anthony Stokes, Erse fitbawer
* 1994 - Tony Dingwall, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1492 - Pape Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
* 1804 - William Forsyth, Scots botanist (b. 1737)
* 1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Inglis poet (b. 1772)
* 1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scots chemist (b. 1766)
* 1846 - Louis Bonaparte, Keeng o Holland (b. 1778)
* 1903 - Willie Park Sr., Scots gowfer (b. 1833)
* 1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor o Austrick (b. 1892)
* 1962 - Nelle Wilson Reagan, mither o Ronald Reagan (b. 1883)
* 1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Roushie sangster-sangwriter, poet, an actor (b. 1938)
* 2014 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor (b. 1924)
* 2019 - Beji Caid Essebsi, Preses o Tunisie (b. 1926)
* 2020 - Dame Olivia de Havilland, Breetish-American actress (b. 1916)

## Halidays

* Saunt James's Day - naitional day o Galicie
* Republic Day (Tunisie)
* Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)