A day like today, July 25In 1978 the first ‘test tube baby’ was born, Louise Brownat the British Oldham Hospital, in Manchester.
1554.- Mary Tudor marries Philip II, future king of Spain, in Winchester Cathedral.
1593.- Henry IV of France renounces Protestantism and converts to Catholicism to achieve the throne, convinced with the phrase “Paris is worth a mass.”
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1798.- Napoleon enters Cairo (Egypt), days after his victory in the Battle of the Pyramids.
1938.- The Battle of the Ebro begins in the Spanish Civil War, in which Franco’s rebellious government emerges victorious in mid-November.
1943.- Mussolini is overthrown after the Allied landing in Sicily and Victor Emmanuel III assumes power.
1952.- The Constitution of Puerto Rico is proclaimed, which in its first article contemplates the island as a Free Associated State (ELA) of the United States.
1956.- Sinking of the Italian ocean liner ‘Andrea Doria’. 52 people die.
1957.- The National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia proclaims the republic and appoints the head of the Government, Habib Burguiba, president.
1975.- The musical ‘A Chorus Line’ premieres on Broadway, which ran at the Shubert Theater until April 1990 (6,137 performances).
1975.- The singer David Bowie releases the album with the song ‘Fame’, with the collaboration of John Lennon.
1984.- Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to “walk in space.”
1985.- American actor Rock Hudson announces that he suffers from AIDS and dies in October.
1992.- King Juan Carlos I inaugurates the Games of the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona.
1992.- Inauguration in Madrid of the Casa de América.
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1994.- Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Isaac Rabin sign a historic reconciliation in Washington, ending 46 years of fighting.
1999.- Great victory of the Patriotic Pole, coalition of Venezuelan President Chávez, in the elections to the National Constituent Assembly.
2000.- An Air France Concorde plane crashes shortly after taking off from Paris’s De Gaulle airport. 113 people die.
2010.- Several media outlets publish US military reports on the war in Afghanistan, leaked by WikiLeaks.
2016.- Verizon agrees to purchase Yahoo for about $4.8 billion.
2021.- The Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro in Madrid, declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
2023.- The kings of Spain inaugurate the Royal Collections Gallery in Madrid, a project that started 25 years earlier.
2025.- The pro-Palestinian militant Georges Abdallah is released after 40 years imprisoned in France for terrorism.
1109.- Alfonso I, ‘the Conqueror’, king of Portugal.
1848.- Arthur Balfour, British politician.
1905.- Elías Canetti, Bulgarian writer of Sephardic origin and Nobel Prize winner in 1981.
1929.- Manuel Olivencia, Spanish professor who was general commissioner of Expo ’92 in Seville.
1925.- Santiago de Santiago, Spanish sculptor.
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1952.- Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect.
1954.- Santiago Auserón, ‘Juan Perro’, Spanish singer who led the group ‘Radio Futura’.
1955.- Iman Jones, Somali model and widow of David Bowie.
1970.- Jorge Javier Vázquez, Spanish television presenter.
1842.- Ignacio Rodríguez Galván, Mexican poet.
1972.- Américo Castro, Spanish historian.
1986.- Vincente Minnelli, American filmmaker.
2003.- John Schlesinger, British film director.
2018.- Sergio Marchionne, former Italian CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
2021.- Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Portuguese soldier, strategist of the Carnation Revolution.
2021.- Bob Moses, American civil rights leader.
2022.- David Trimble, Irish politician.
2023.- Cecilia, ‘La Incomparable’, transgressive icon of Chilean popular music.
