On This Day for July 25 - American advance into Canada halted by British troops, Thomas Eakins is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. July 25 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Thomas Eakins READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1814 American advance into Canada halted by British troops READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2007: Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India, becoming the first woman to hold the office. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about India.] 2000: A Concorde supersonic airplane—Air France flight 4590—crashed outside Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four others on the ground; the event was believed to have hastened the end of all Concorde operations three years later. 1984: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. [Take our quiz about famous astronauts and cosmonauts.] 1978: Louise Brown, the first human conceived using in vitro fertilization, was born in England. [Test your knowledge of medical conditions and discoveries.] 1965: At the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival, American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan initially eschewed his acoustic guitar to go electric; the controversial performance is considered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of rock and roll. [Test your knowledge of songwriters.] 1919: A member of the foreign ministry of the newly formed Soviet government, Lev Karakhan, issued the Karakhan Manifesto, in which he offered to relinquish all Soviet claims to the special rights and privileges in China won by the Russian tsarist government. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Russia.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1954 Walter Payton American football player 1894 Walter Brennan American actor 1941 Emmett Till American murder victim 1894 Gavrilo Princip Slavic nationalist 1920 Rosalind Franklin British scientist 1750 Henry Knox United States general SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help