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Afonso Henriques
Head of the Colossus of Constantine
Corinth Canal
Benito Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel III
Louis Blériot
Louis Blériot and his aeroplane
The Concorde involved in the Air France Flight 4590 accident
Pratibha Patil
Central medallion of the Duffield Memorial
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| National Day in Galicia, Spain; | refimprove |
| Republic Day in Tunisia (1957) | refimprove |
| Constitution Day in Puerto Rico (1952) | unreferenced section |
| 1139 – Prince Afonso Henriques led Portuguese troops to victory over the Almoravid Moors at the Battle of Ourique, which soon resulted in Portuguese independence from the Kingdom of León. | Too much uncited |
| 1536 – Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded Santiago de Cali in present-day western Colombia while on his search for the mythical city of El Dorado. | refimprove sections |
| 1567 – Caracas, today the capital and largest city of Venezuela, was founded as Santiago de Leon de Caracas by Spanish explorer Diego de Losada. | refimprove section |
| 1609 – During a hurricane, the English sailing ship Sea Venture became grounded on the reefs of Bermuda, which is widely believed to have inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest. | refimprove section |
| 1722 – Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts, declared war on the Abenaki people to begin Dummer's War. | refimprove sections |
| 1792 – French Revolutionary Wars: Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick issued the Brunswick Manifesto to the population of Paris, promising vengeance if King Louis XVI and other members of the French royal family were harmed. | Charles: needs more footnotes, expansion; Manifesto: needs more footnotes |
| 1799 – French invasion of Egypt: Napoleon's decisive victory over a combined Ottoman–British force in the Battle of Abukir temporarily secured Egypt for France. | unreferenced sections |
| 1814 – War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United States and Great Britain engaged in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil. | refimprove section |
| 1861 – The United States Congress passed the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, asserting that the aim of the American Civil War was to "preserve the Union"; the measure was repealed five months later. | unreferenced "Historical background" section |
| 1871 – William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa, is issued the first US patent for a carousel, a key milestone at the start of the modern American amusement industry. | Orange "more citations needed: pop culture" banner |
| 1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to Dover, England. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – More than a year after obtaining independence from France, Tunisia abolished its monarchy and became a republic. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – Bob Dylan, who had previously been known for folk music, gave a controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival playing songs with an electric guitar. | "Too many quotes" banner |
| 1969 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world", beginning the Vietnamization of the war. | missing ISBNs |
| 1978 – Two Puerto Rican independence activists were killed in a police ambush at Cerro Maravilla in Ponce. | Citation issues |
| 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation, was born in Oldham, England. | unreferenced section |
| 1993 – Israeli forces launched a week-long attack against Lebanon to make it difficult for Hezbollah to use southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel. | refimprove |
| Isaac Luria |d|1572| | Too much uncited |
| Thomas Eakins |b|1844| | Referencing |
| Arthur Balfour|b|1848| | Birthday not cited |
| Erika Steinbach |b|1943| | Referencing, BLP |
Eligible
- 306 – Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus.
- 1547 – Henry II was crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral.
- 1591 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch and English forces relieved the siege of Knodsenburg in the Spanish Netherlands, having defeated the Duke of Parma's army in the field.
- 1788 – Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40, one of his two extant symphonies in a minor key.
- 1898 – Spanish–American War: After more than two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invaded Puerto Rico.
- 1943 – The Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini, who was arrested the same day by King Victor Emmanuel III and replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1976 – The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
- 2001 – Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.
- 2007 – Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan in one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
- Born/died this day: | Henry Percy|b|1421| Elliott Fitch Shepard|b|1833| James Barry |d|1865| Maxfield Parrish|b|1870| Francis Chan|b|1913| Enriqueta Legorreta|b|1914| Rosalind Franklin|b|1920| Nestor Makhno|d|1934| Guillermo Mota|b|1973| Louise Brown|b|1978| Sarah Geronimo|b|1988| Hasan Piker|b|1991| Tyler Robertson|b|2000| Alperen Şengün|b|2002| Randy Pausch|d|2008| Michael Johnson|d|2017| Beji Caid Essebsi|d|2019| Regis Philbin |d|2020| Paul Sorvino|d|2022|
Notes
- Chelsea Manning is on February 18, so Afghan War documents leak should not appear in the same year
- Viking 1 is on July 20, so Cydonia should not appear in the same year
- Kitchen Debate is on July 24, so Nixon Doctrine should not appear in the same year
July 25: National Day of Galicia; Saint James's Day; Tenjin Matsuri; Puerto Rico Constitution Day
Central medallion of the Duffield Memorial
- 1261 – Alexios Strategopoulos led Nicaean forces to recapture Constantinople, leading to the reestablishment of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the Latin Empire.
- 1893 – The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
- 1950 – Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
- 2000 – Air France Flight 4590 , a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109 passengers on board and four people on the ground.
- 2022 – The Duffield Memorial (central medallion pictured), an "unusual example of Art Nouveau design in metal work", is designated a listed building by Historic England
- Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (d. 1190)
- Matt LeBlanc (b. 1967)
- Meg Donnelly (b. 2000)
- Azimzhan Askarov (d. 2020)