1956 ’One hour before midnight on July 25, 1956, the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collided with the Italian liner Andrea Doria off the coast of Nantucket,later the Andrea Doria sank

1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm

1956 Jordanians attack UN Palestine truce

1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic

1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title

1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header

1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty

1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks

1964 Race riot in Rochester NY

1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival

1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"

1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)

1968 H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #1993 Guacolda

1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival

1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment

1973 George Harrison pays œ1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album

1973 USSR launches Mars 5

1974 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik

1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers

1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn

1983 The first nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio

1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion

1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space

1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS

1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt

1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite

1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game

1990 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute

1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (Los Angeles)

1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain

1909 Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to cross the Channel (between England and France) by plane

1943 Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, forced to resign

1957 Tunisia gains independence

1894 The birth of Walter Brennan, American actor

1937 The birth of Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist

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