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| July 25 is the 207th day of the year. There are 159 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1521 About 300 sodomites burned in Vrijdagmarkt Ghent to provide heat from a renewable energy source during an exceptionally cool July |
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| 1860 1st US intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yale introduces trash talk in competitive athletics |
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| 1866 U.S. Grant is named 1st general of Army and David Farragut is appointed 1st Admiral of US Navy |
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| 1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River without any known reason |
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| 1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is created (Constitution Day) |
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| 1966 Mao Tse Tung swims the Yangtse River without any known reason |
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| 1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" |
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| 1983 1st non-human primate, baboon, is conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio, 15 years after Louise Brown, the first test-tube human, is born. Many happy returns of the day, Louise! |
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| 1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS |
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| 1992 Army refuses to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Samuel Mudd who set John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg after Lincoln’s assassination |
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| 1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war |
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| 2010 Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history. |
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| 1844 Thomas Eakins, heterosexual (quelle surpise!) US artist, photographer, teacher |
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| 1955 Tom McCamus, Canadian actor |
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| 1965 Olivier Py, gay French actor/director |
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| 1970 Ernesto Alterio, Argentine actor |
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| 1973 Tony Vincent [Anthony Peter Strascina], US actor/singer-songwriter |
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| 1973 Martino Lazzeri, English actor |
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| 1974 Jay R Ferguson, US actor |
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| 1976 Stéphane Rideau, French actor |
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| 1982 Brad Renfro, US actor |
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| 1989 Steve Rubell, gay US night club owner (Studio 54), succumbs to AIDS at 45 |
