Today in History: July 25

The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland)
July 25, 2014 Friday

Today in History: July 25

TODAY is Friday, July 25, 2014. On this day:

1593 – France’s King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

1759 – British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.

1845 – China granted Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France
and the United States.

1854 – The paper collar was patented by Walter Hunt.

1862 – After successfully crossing Australia from south to north, John
McDouall Stuart raises the British flag at the mouth of the Mary
River.

1871 – Seth Wheeler patented perforated wrapping paper.

1907 – Korea became a protectorate of Japan.

1909 – French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in
a monoplane.

1924 – Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.

1943 – Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.

1946 – The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the
Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.

1973 – The numbat is proclaimed as Western Australia’s official faunal emblem.

1978 – Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham,
England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

1984 – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to
walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.

1994 – Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had
existed between them since 1948.

1999 – Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second
American to win the race.

2010 – WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal
reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.