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Today's Events | On Horizon | On This Day | Newslink | Notable | Almanac archive

Saturday, July 25, 1998

quote   I wasn't going to add my film to a long list of pictures that make World War II 'the glamorous war,' 'the romantic war.'

-- Steven Spielberg, director of "Saving Private Ryan"

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today's events

  • U.S. President Bill Clinton is tentatively scheduled to attend the commissioning of aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in Norfolk, Virginia.


on the horizon

  • On Sunday, July 26, annual induction ceremony into the Baseball Hall of Fame is scheduled in Cooperstown, New York.

  • Monday, July 27, is the two-year anniversary of a bomb exploding in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Games.

  • On Tuesday, July 28, a celebration marking the 70th anniversary of Gerber Baby food is scheduled in New York with Ann Turner Cook, the original Gerber Baby, attending.

  • On Wednesday, July 29, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to visit Papua New Guinea to offer support as the South Pacific country tries to recover from a devastating a tidal wave.

  • On Thursday, July 30, the Romance Writers of America are scheduled to begin their national convention in Los Angeles.


NEWSLINK:   NOTABLE:

In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. To learn more about the Soviet space program, click here.

  • It's Constitution Day in Puerto Rico.
  • Today is Republic Day in Tunisia.
  • Actress Estelle Getty ("The Golden Girls") is 75.
  • Rock musician Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 47.
  • Model-actress Iman is 43.
  • Cartoonist Ray Billingsley ("Curtis") is 41.
  • Rock musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 40.
  • Actress Illeana Douglas ("To Die For") is 33.
  • Country singer Marty Brown is 33.
  • Actor Matt LeBlanc ("Friends") is 31.
  • Actor Brad Renfro ("Sleepers") is 16.


on this day

  • In 1139, at the battle of Ourique, Alfonso Henriques defeated the Moors and became Alfonso I of Portugal.

  • In 1261, Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII recovered Constantinople and was crowned there. He thus deposed John IV, ending the Latin Empire.

  • In 1554, Queen Mary I of England married Philip II of Spain at Winchester.

  • In 1564, Maximilian II, king of Hungary and Bohemia, became Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Ferdinand I.

  • In 1666, the English fleet defeated the Dutch in the second naval battle of the Foreland.

  • In 1689, King Louis XIV of France declared war on Britain.

  • In 1725, the Duke of Brunswick issued a manifesto threatening to destroy Paris if the French royal family was harmed.

  • In 1712, the Protestant cantons led by Berne defeated the Catholic cantons at the Battle of Villmergen, ending the religious wars in Switzerland.

  • In 1797, British naval commander Horatio Nelson's right arm was shattered by grapeshot during an assault on Tenerife. The injured arm was amputated later.

  • In 1830, King Charles X of France issued five ordinances; for controlling press, dissolving Chambers and changing the electoral system.

  • In 1848, the Austrians defeated the forces of Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, at the Battle of Custozza, suppressing first efforts toward the unification of Italy.

  • In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was appointed General of the U.S. Army, the first American officer to be so designated.

  • In 1898, in the Spanish-American War, Maj. Gen. Nelson Mile's U.S. forces occupied Puerto Rico.

  • In 1907, Japan received protectorate over Korea thus giving Japan control over its government.

  • In 1909, Louis Bleriot made the first crossing of the English Channel by air, flying his monoplane from Les Baraques, near Calais, to Dover.

  • In 1917, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death on charges of spying for Germany during World War I.

  • In 1920, French forces occupied Damascus; Greeks under King Alexander occupied Adrianople, Turkey.

  • In 1929, Pope Pius XI became the first pope to leave the Vatican since the fall of the Papal States in 1870.

  • In 1934, Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated in Vienna by Nazis.

  • In 1943, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was forced to resign after a meeting of his Grand Council. King Victor Emmanuel appointed Marshal Badoglio as prime minister.

  • In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community came into force.

  • In 1957, Tunisia became a republic with Habib Bourguiba as president.

  • In 1959, the hovercraft made its first crossing of the English Channel from Dover to Calais.

  • In 1963, U.S., Soviet Union and Britain agreed on a treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water.

  • In 1978, the world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire, England.

  • In 1982, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a document in Beirut accepting U.N. resolutions on Israel's right to exist.

  • In 1983, the United States flew aid to President Hissene Habre of Chad to help fight Libyan-backed guerrillas.

  • In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

  • In 1994, Israeli and Jordanian leaders signed a historic declaration in Washington ending the state of war between them.

  • In 1995, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic were charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal.

  • In 1996, Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army seized power in a coup, outlawed political parties, closed the airport and land borders.


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