Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: July 25
July 25, 2024 is the 207th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: July 25
- 1536 –Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1567 –Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1593 –Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 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.
- 1837 –The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1920 –France captures Damascus.
- 1920 –Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1959 –SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
- 1984 –Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 2010 –Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Who were born on July 25?
- 1109 –Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
- 1905 –Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
- 1905 –Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
- 1923 –Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
- 1928 –Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
- 1930 –Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
- 1935 –Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant
- 1954 –Lynne Frederick, British Actress (d. 1994)
- 1979 –Amy Adams, American singer
- 1989 –Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
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