It happened on a… July 25

2018

Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in “Science”.

2010

WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

2000

Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.

1992

25th Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.

1990

Lucien Bouchard announces formation of Bloc Quebecois

1985

Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS.

1983

Metallica’s debut album Kill ‘Em All is released on Megaforce Records.

1978

Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

1964

Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks.

1946

At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team

The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.

1944

1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262).

1871

Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa.

1837

The first commercial use of an electric telegraph successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London.