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306, 25th July: Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1648, 25th July: Shahaji Raje was imprisoned by Baji Ghorpade under the orders of Mohammed AdilShah.
1894, 25th July: The First Sino-Japanese War began when the Japanese fired upon a Chinese warship.
1978, 25th July: Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
1984, 25th July: Svetlana Savitskaya of the Soviet Union became the first female astronaut to walk in space.
1994, 25th July: Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ended the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
1997, 25th July: K R Narayanan became the 10th and first Malayalee President of India.
2007, 25th July: Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first woman President of India.
On this Day Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on July 25.
1875: Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author.
1922: Vasant Bapat, a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.
1929: Somnath Chatterjee, an Indian politician.
1966: Harsimrat Kaur Badal, an Indian politician.
On this Day Death Anniversaries of famous people on July 25.
1880: Ganesh Vasudeo Joshi, a lawyer, social reformer, and political activist.
2015: R. S. Gavai, founder of the Republican Party of India
What happened in India on 25 July
25-July-1813
First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
25-July-1929
Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
25-July-1938
Gautam Kalicharan, famous Hindi poet, was born.
25-July-1955
Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese’s were asked to close their offices in New Delhi.
25-July-1958
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
25-July-1961
Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961.
25-July-1970
Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away.
25-July-1976
Sriram Singh at Montreal sets record for 800m in 1.45.77.
25-July-1977
B. D. Jathi retired from the post of second acting President.
25-July-1977
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy became the sixth President of India. His held this office till July 25, 1982.
25-July-1982
Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President.
25-July-1982
Gyani Zail Singh became 7th President of India. He held the office till July 25, 1987.
25-July-1986
Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India.
25-July-1987
Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President.
25-July-1987
Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
25-July-1988
Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
25-July-1991
Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao, famous economist and former central minister, passed away.
25-July-1992
K. Madhavan, CBI Jt. Director looking into the security scam, resigns.
25-July-1992
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma sworn in as the ninth President of India. He remain in this office from July 25, 1992 to July 25, 1997.
25-July-1992
R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President.
25-July-1995
India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes (’94, 95).
25-July-1997
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999) retired from the post of 9th President.
25-July-1997
Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.
25-July-1997
Laloo Yadav resigns as Bihar Chief Minister after CBI-designated court issues an arrest warrant against him in fodder scam case. His wife, Rabri Devi, is sworn in as his successor. She becomes first woman Chief Minister of the State.
25-July-2000
P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.
25-July-2000
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena Chief, courts arrest and the court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Boiwada, B. P. Kamble dismisses the case because of six-year delay in pursuing it after the FIR.
25-July-2000
Two Indians Aruna Roy from Rajasthan and Jockin Arputham, founder of the Indian National Slum Dwellers’ Association, chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay award for public service.