Historical Events In July - 25

1907  On this day in history jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)  

1908  On July - 25 ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.  

1908  On July - 25 joseph Mitchell, writer  

1909  On this day in history france's Louis Bl‚riot, makes first airplane flight across Engl Channel  

1909  Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to cross the Channel (between England and France) by plane on July - 25.  

1909  France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel on this day in history.  

1911  On July - 25 filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71  

1912  Comoros proclaimed a French colonies on this day in history.  

1912  Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1913  On July - 25 carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game  

1913  John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man) on this day in history.  

1914  On July - 25 germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"  

1914  Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream) on July - 25.  

1915  On July - 25 david Napley, solicitor  

1916  On July - 25 explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks  

1916  Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P) on July - 25.  

1917  Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%) on this day in history.  

1918  Annette Adams sworn in as first woman district attorney of US, Calif on this day in history.  

1918  Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed) on this day in history.  

1918  Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif on July - 25.  

1918  On this day in history nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula's Daughters)  

1918  Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies on this day in history.  

1919  On July - 25 hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila)  

1920  Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win on this day in history.  

1921  On July - 25 john Christopherson, artist/collector  

1922  AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN) on this day in history.  

1922  Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1923  German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 on July - 25.  

1924  On this day in history estelle Getty, NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls)  

1925  On this day in history alistair Taylor, cricketer (one Test as opening bat for S Afr 1956)  

1926  On this day in history teodor Grigoriu, composer  

1927  On July - 25 midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...)  

1927  Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies on this day in history.  

1929  Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader on July - 25.  

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1016  Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058) was born on this day in history.  

1109  Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85) was born on this day in history.  

1336  On July - 25 birth of albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)  

1404  Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant was born on this day in history.  

1421  Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461) was born on this day in history.  

1517  On this day in history birth of jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist  

1562  On this day in history birth of kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)  

1575  On this day in history birth of christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer  

0306  On this day in history gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies  

1409  Death of King Martin I of Sicily on this day in history.  

1471  John Soreth, French general, dies on July - 25.  

1492  Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies on this day in history.  

1539  Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1564  Ferdinand I, German Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1570  On this day in history death of ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed  

1580  On this day in history baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47