History for July 25

History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com

Eric Hoffer 1902

• 1587 - Japanese strong-man Hideyoshi banned Christianity in Japan and ordered all Christians to leave.
• 1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.
• 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.
• 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.