History for July 25

History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com:
Walter Brennan 1894 , Eric Hoffer 1902, Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) 1943 


Walter Payton (NFL) 1954, Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends"), Brad Renfro 1982 


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


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


1861 - The Crittenden Resolution, which called for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, was passed by the U.S. Congress. 


1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank. 


1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel. 


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


1946 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, NJ. 


1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S. 


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


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