Historical Events -  on July 25.

306: Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

1648: Shahaji Raje was imprisoned by Baji Ghorpade under the orders of Mohammed AdilShah.

1894: The First Sino-Japanese War began when the Japanese fired upon a Chinese warship.

1978: Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

1984: Svetlana Savitskaya of the Soviet Union became the first female astronaut to walk in space.

1994: Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ended the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.

1997: K R Narayanan became the 10th and first Malayalee President of India.

2007: Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first woman President of India.

 

Famous Birthdays – July 25  

1875: Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author.

1922: Vasant Bapat, a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.

1929: Somnath Chatterjee, an Indian politician.

1966: Harsimrat Kaur Badal, an Indian politician.

Death Anniversaries -  on July 25

1880: Ganesh Vasudeo Joshi, a lawyer, social reformer, and political activist. 

2015: R. S. Gavai, founder of the Republican Party of India.