July 25 in Pop Culture History
306 – Constantine I (Constantine The Great) was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1593 – Henry IV of France converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1668 (Earthquake) China
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
1861 – The United States Congress passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war was being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was established.
1946 – Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1953 – #1 Hit July 25, 1953 – August 7, 1953: Eddie Fisher – I’m Walking Behind You
1956 – The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm in 200 feet of water 50 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass.
1959 – The SR.N1 hovercraft crossed the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
1965 – Bob Dylan played an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, surprising fans of folk and rock music.
1970 – #1 Hit July 25, 1970 – August 21, 1970: The Carpenters – (They Long to Be) Close to You
1975 – A Chorus Line (Broadway Musical) Opened on July 25, 1975 and closed on April 28, 1990
1976 – Viking 1 took the now-famous Face on Mars photo.
1978 – Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” was born at Oldham General Hospital, Oldham, England.
1981 – #1 Hit July 25, 1981 – July 31, 1981: Air Supply – The One That You Love
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk.
1986 – Heartburn, Maximum Overdrive, Out of Bounds and Haunted Honeymoon debuted in theaters.
1997 – Air Force One and Good Burger were released in theaters.
2003 – Seabiscuit, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and Spy Kids 3D: Game Over debuted in theaters.
2008 – Step Brothers and The X-Files: I Want to Believe were released in theaters.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history.
2014 – Lucy and Hercules debuted in theaters.
2015 – #1 Hit July 25, 2015 – August 21, 2015: OMI – Cheerleader
