Public Holidays on July 25

• 🌍 Caracas City Foundation Day (Venezuela)
• 🌍 Santiago Apóstol (Spain)

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Religious Observances on July 25

• Jewish: Shabbat Nachamu שבת נחמו

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On This Day in History — July 25

• 2010 — WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
• 2007 — Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
• 2000 — Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
• 1996 — In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
• 1995 — A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
• 1994 — 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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Notable Births on July 25

• 1997 — Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 — Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
• 1991 — Toni Duggan, English footballer
• 1990 — Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress
• 1990 — Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer
• 1989 — Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player

Notable Deaths on July 25

• 2017 — Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 2015 — Jacques Andreani, French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929)
• 2015 — R. S. Gavai, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1946)
• 2014 — Bel Kaufman, German-American author and academic (b. 1911)
• 2014 — Richard Larter, Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929)

Religious Observances on July 26

• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Abdullah Dahlawi (ق)

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On This Day in History — July 26

• 2016 — The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. 19 people are killed.
• 2016 — Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
• 2009 — The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
• 2008 — Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
• 2005 — Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
• 2005 — Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.

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Notable Births on July 26

• 1996 — Olivia Breen, British sprinter
• 1994 — Ella Leivo, Finnish tennis player
• 1993 — Raymond Faitala-Mariner, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 — Marika Koroibete, Fijian rugby player
• 1991 — Tyson Barrie, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 — Panagiotis Kone, Greek footballer

Notable Deaths on July 26

• 2017 — June Foray, American voice actress (b. 1917)
• 2017 — Patti Deutsch, American voice artist and comedic actress (b. 1943)
• 2017 — Ronald Phillips, American criminal (b. 1973)
• 2015 — Bijoy Krishna Handique, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Mines (b. 1934)
• 2015 — Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)