Important Events From This day in History July 25

 

2000 France Concorde Crash

2000 : An Air France Concorde jet bound for New York crashes upon takeoff in Paris killing everyone on board as well as four people on the ground.

1917 France Mata Hari

1917 : The exotic dancer Mata Hari is sentenced to execution by firing squad by a French court for spying on Germany's behalf during World War I.

1921 U.S.A. Rum Runners

1921 : Rum runners are now taunting US authorities by sitting outside of the three mile limit with flags and signs saying come and get it. At night they disappear under cover of darkness to areas not patrolled and small fishing boats unload the cargo and deliver the booze back to shore.

1939 England IRA Bomb

1939 : A bomb planted in a baggage room on a London Railway station by the IRA has injured 14 people many seriously , the bomb is believed to have been planted by the Irish Republican Army.

1943 Italy Benito Mussolini

1943 : Benito Mussolini, the prime minister and dictator of Italy for 21 years, was forced from office.

1952 Puerto Rico Self Governing Commonwealth of US

1952 : After a number of years during which there were revolts including the Jayuya Uprising against the United States. Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. The head of state is still George Bush and the Federal Legislative Branch is the United States Congress. The country is currently run by the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico who hold control of the Puerto Rican House of Representatives and Senate who are campaigning for the right of Statehood for Puerto Rico.

1956 U.S.A. Ocean Liners Collide

1956 : The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collide in a heavy Atlantic fog off the island of Nantucket on the New England coast. Fifty-one passengers and crew were killed in the collision, which ripped a great hole in the broad side of the Italian vessel Andrea Doria all 1,660 survivors were rescued from the ship before it sunk late the next morning.

1969 Senator Edward Kennedy Chappaquiddick

1969 : Senator Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime (car accident on the island of Chappaquiddick where Mary Jo Kopechne drowned) and has been sentenced to a two-month suspended jail sentence.

1973 Soviet Union Mars 5 Probe

1973 : The Soviet Union launched Mars 5, its second unmanned Mars probe on a six-month journey to the red planet.

1978 Great Britain First Test Tube Baby

1978 : Lesley Brown gave birth to the world's first test tube baby (in-vitro fertilization) delivered by cesarean section in Oldham, England. Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards developed the process to conceive a child in a laboratory and then plant in a uterus to develop normally.

1978 Britain Motability Scheme Launched

1978 : A new scheme in Britain (Motability scheme) to provide cars for disabled people is launched in Earl's Court, London. The scheme allows disabled people to use part of their mobility allowance to lease new, modified cars for the disabled.

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