July 25
People born on this day are Leo.
- 1983
Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
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Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
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Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
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Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
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A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
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In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
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Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.
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Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, is assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.
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Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
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WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
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National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
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2002Equi Fernández, Argentine footballer
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2002Alperen Şengün, Turkish basketball player
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2002Adam Hložek, Czech footballer
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2001Bryce Young, American football player
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2000Meg Donnelly, American actress
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2000Zhang Hao, Chinese singer
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2000Shakira Austin, American basketball player
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1997Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player
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1996Jaafar Jackson, American actor and singer
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1995Alvin Kamara, American football player
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1995Maria Sakkari, Greek tennis player
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1994Natalija Stevanović, Serbian tennis player
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