July 25 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for July 25
In the headlines today:

2004	American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins a record-breaking sixth consecutive Tour de France title.
2003	Iron Butterfly guitarist Erik Braunn dies of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles at age 52. Braunn joined the band at age 16, and played on the band's monumental 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida .
2000	An Air France Concorde crashes shortly after takeoff near Paris, killing all 109 people on board (four people on the ground were also killed).
1997	Golf legend Ben Hogan dies in Ft. Worth, Texas, at age 85.
1994	Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign a declaration ending the state of war between the two countries.
1985	The world learns that actor Rock Hudson has AIDS.
1979	Louise, the first "test tube baby", is born to Lesley and Gilbert Brown in England.
1965	Folk singer Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival for appearing on stage with an electric guitar.
1956	51 people die when the Italian cruise ship Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with another ship off the coast of New England.
1952	Puerto Rico joins the US as a self-governing commonwealth.
1946	The US explodes an atomic bomb underwater at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.
1909	Frenchman Louis Bleriot makes the first airplane flight across the English Channel.
1868	The Wyoming Territory is created by an act of the US Congress.
1766	Chief Pontiac and the Ottowa Indians make peace with the British.
1567	Caracas, Venezuela, is founded.
44	St. James the Greater, one of the 12 Apostles, dies.