On This Day In History
24 July 2013. It was announced that the acclaimed 19th century author, Jane Austen, would replace Charles Darwin on the new Bank of England £10 note, which was introduced on the 200th anniversary of her death in 2017. pic.twitter.com/fjUHd859mE
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 24, 2022
David Bowie and Keith Moon performing at the 50th birthday party of Peter Sellers in 1975. pic.twitter.com/WZDPkJckfl
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 24, 2022
July 25th
306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops
1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher
1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III
1944 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
Did You Know?
Ajinomoto Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process for manufacturing it.
Today in History in 1908
Would You Believe?
Sperm counts have halved in last 40 years says research published in "Human Reproduction Update" journal
Today in History in 2017
This day 155 years ago - 25 July 1865 - Cork-born Margaret Bulkley, one of the first surgeons to perform a C-section, died.
Bulkley entered university under the name James Barry, when only men could study medicine.
Bulkley once wrote: “Were I not a girl, I would be a soldier.” pic.twitter.com/M1iLiRTclw
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 25, 2020
#OTD in 2021, Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv became the first woman to open the Bayreuth opera festival since its inauguration in 1876. ‘If they can trust you… the musicians are not in the least bit interested whether a man or a woman is conducting.’ https://t.co/43SZfu6Mw1 pic.twitter.com/qSgH0vcITQ
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) July 25, 2022
On this day in 1946, a white mob lynched two Black couples in Walton County, Georgia. Even with a federal investigation, no one was ever held accountable. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/OG7E4JhdLL
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) July 25, 2022
25 July 1909. French flying ace, Louis Blériot, made the first successful flight across the English Channel in a monoplane thereby winning a prize of £1,000 (worth £78,000 today), offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. pic.twitter.com/FaXXBzTQCm
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 1959. The first commercial hovercraft, SR.N1, designed by British engineer, Christopher Cockerell, and built by Saunders Roe crossed the English Channel from Calais to Dover, with Cockerell on board pic.twitter.com/Vbj7qIsSD5
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 1965. Bob Dylan caused outrage among die hard folk music fans at the US Newport Folk Festival, by appearing with an electric guitar, and performing a rock ‘n’ roll set for the very first time. He was greeted by a chorus of shouts and boos. pic.twitter.com/P2hSfinJ4y
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 1976. The US Viking 1 space probe transmitted the famous “Face on Mars” photo. It captured the image of a pile of rocks that greatly resembled a human face, which NASA described as a "huge rock formation in the centre which resembled a human head”. pic.twitter.com/Pz5yjfrIdv
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 1978. Louise Brown was born in Oldham, to become the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. She was described by the press as: “The test-tube baby.” pic.twitter.com/bxtRrrGwlE
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 1984. Soviet cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to walk in space, aboard Salyut 7. To this day, she remains the only Russian woman to have walked in space. pic.twitter.com/2kL0pnL2bX
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 2000. Air France, Concorde 4590, crashed shortly after take off from Charles De Gaulle airport, Paris, killing 113. Most of the passengers on board were German tourists, en route to New York for a cruise. The crash contributed to the withdrawal of flights by the aircraft. pic.twitter.com/ZAmZeffNb5
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 2010. 90,000 secret documents, involving the US-led War in Afghanistan, were leaked to the public by WikiLeaks. It was the biggest illegal leak of US classified documents since the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War in 1971. pic.twitter.com/INz7jSvYoO
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
25 July 2019. The UK Met Office recorded the highest ever temperature in the UK of 38.7 Centrigrade in Cambridge University Botanic Garden. On 19 July 2022, this record was surpassed by a temperature of 40.3 Centigrade recorded at Coningsby in eastern England. pic.twitter.com/JOzdqsvARh
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 25, 2022
July 26th
657 Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Sapa Inca Emperor, Atahualpa
1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London
1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII
1953 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba
Did You Know?
Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall K. Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud complete 1st automobile trip across the United States; San Francisco to New York in a 2-cylinder Winton (63 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes)
Today in History in 1903
Would You Believe?
3 live king cobras reported found inside potato chip cans by customs officials in Los Angeles
Today in History in 2017
This day 106 years ago - 26 July 1914 - British soldiers shot dead three people on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, after being pelted with stones.
Patrick Pearse wrote that the killings “have given public sentiment just that turn that was desirable. The army is an object of odium.” pic.twitter.com/sy1jFj5WuY
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 26, 2020
In 1973, Rózsa Péter—'the founding mother of recursion theory'—was the 1st female mathematician elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Forbidden to teach 1939-45 because she was Jewish, she spent the war years writing her book Playing With Infinity. https://t.co/dsgCLJZ8Er pic.twitter.com/sOJcvDITOc
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) July 26, 2022