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Events on July 25

• 1593 The French King Henry IV converts to Catholicism near Paris during the Eighth Huguenot War, contributing in the long term to the end of the Huguenot Wars.
• 1797 The British Admiral Horatio Nelson loses his right arm in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife against the Spaniards and also has to suffer the only defeat of his military career.
• 1909 The Frenchman Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel with his monoplane Blériot XI as the first person to do so in an airplane.
• 1934 The Austrian Federal Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß is murdered during a National Socialist coup attempt.
• 1943 After being released by the Italian king, Benito Mussolini is arrested by the Carabinieri.
• 1950 In the GDR, the positions in the newly established SED Central Committee are filled. Although the party chairmen remain Wilhelm Pieck and Otto Grotewohl, the strong man as Secretary-General of the Central Committee is now Walter Ulbricht.
• 1961 With the Rendsburg Canal Tunnel, a crossing beneath the North Sea-Baltic Canal is inaugurated and subsequently opened to traffic.
• 1976 The NASA space probe Viking 1 photographs the so-called Face of Mars from an altitude of 1873 km.
• 1978 The Lower Saxony state authority for constitutional protection has a hole blown into the Celle penal institution in order to fake an escape attempt by the suspected RAF prisoner Sigurd Debus.
• 1980 AC/DC release Back in Black as their sixth studio album. It becomes the second-best-selling album in the world as well as the most successful hard rock album to date.
• 1992 The XXV Olympic Games are opened in Barcelona. They are the only Summer Games in which a unified team from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States participates under the Olympic flag.
• 2002 With the opening of the Cologne–Rhine/Main high-speed line, scheduled passenger trains operate at a speed of 300 km/h in Germany for the first time.

Born on July 25

• 1883 Alfredo Casella, Italian conductor, pianist and composer
• 1894 Walter Brennan, American actor and singer
• 1920 Rosalind Franklin, British biochemist and specialist in X-ray crystallography
• 1921 Paul Watzlawick, Austrian psychotherapist and author
• 1953 Santiago Ziesmer, German voice actor
• 1961 Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
• 1980 Cha Du-ri, South Korean football player
• 1982 Brad Renfro, American actor
• 1993 Fedor Holz, German poker player and entrepreneur
• 2002 Adam Hložek, Czech football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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