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On This Day

25 July

🇮🇳 In India
1875 Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author was born.
1982 Giani Zail Singh was sworn in as the seventh President of India.
1987 R. Venkataraman becomes the eighth President of India.
1997 K. R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president, the first Dalit to hold the office.
2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's 1st female President.
🌎 Elsewhere
0306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher.
1834 English Romantic poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge died.
1837 The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1943 Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup.
1978 The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England.
1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
1992 The 25th Olympic Games opens in Barcelona with all countries present for the first time in modern history.
2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.


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