July 25th

Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops.

California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.

India gets its first female president. Pratibha Patil, a politician stayed in office as the head of state of the South Asian country for 5 years.

Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.

Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby is born at Oldham General Hospital in England.

The famous Face on Mars photo is taken. Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.

The musical 'A Chorus Line' opened on Broadway.

Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival by playing electric guitar.

The Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.

Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

The United States tested the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.

World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed.

Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III.

Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.

English engineer George Stephenson introduces the 1st steam locomotive.

France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.