Also on July 25
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Caracas City Foundation Day (VE) · Santiago Apóstol (ES)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Shabbat Nachamu שבת נחמו holiday
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 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. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 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