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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.
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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