What are the important events that happened on July 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 25 is the 206^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 12, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,223,360 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 207 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,599 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 25 Historical Events

• 315 –
  The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
• 1536 –
  Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
• 1593 –
  Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
• 1693 –
  Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
• 1758 –
  Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
• 1853 –
  Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
• 1894 –
  The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• 1943 –
  World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
• 1961 –
  In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.

Who were born on July 25?

• 1924 –
  Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
• 1930 –
  Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
• 1935 –
  Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
• 1941 –
  Nate Thurmond, American basketball player
• 1950 –
  Mark Clarke (musician), British musician, bass player and singer
• 1966 –
  Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
• 1967 –
  Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
• 1974 –
  Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1975 –
  Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
• 1978 –
  Gerard Warren, American football player

Who died on July 25?

• 1471 –
  Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
• 1676 –
  François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
• 1834 –
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
• 1853 –
  Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
• 1959 –
  Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (b. 1888)
• 1973 –
  Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
• 1988 –
  Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
• 2002 –
  Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
• 2008 –
  Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his “Last Lecture” (b. 1960)
• 2009 –
  Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)