July 25th
Today in America's Present Past
1681 | Educator Urian Oakes died.
1722 | The Three Years’ War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1729 | North and South Carolina became separate colonies.
1750 | General Henry Knox was born.
1766 | Indian Wars: Pontiac’s War ends.
1775 | First Lady Anna Symmes Harrison was born.
1790 | Founder William Livingston died.
1791 | Founder Isaac Low died.
1814 | War of 1812: Battle of Niagara Falls.
1824 | Poet and lawyer George B. Vashon was born.
1840 | Historian Flora Adams Darling was born.
1844 | Painter Thomas Eakins was born.
1853 | Outlaw Joaquin Murieta died.
1857 | Inventor Frank Sprague was born.
1860 | The first U.S. intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs. Yale).
1861 | Congress: The Crittenden resolution was passed, stating that the war was to be fought to preserve the Union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter the institution of slavery.
1866 | David Farragut appointed as the first admiral in the US Navy
1866 | Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army.
1867 | Painter Alexander Rummler was born.
1870 | Painter Maxfield Parrish was born.
1878 | Composer Heinrich Gebhard was born.
1881 | SCOTuS: Justice Nathan Clifford died.
1896 | Actor Jack Perrin was born in Three Rivers, Michigan.
1917 | Civil Rights: Chester, Pennsylvania, race and labor riot.
1918 | Civil Rights: Annette Adams was sworn in as the first woman district attorney.
1923 | Actress Estelle Getty was born.
1924 | Politician Frank Church was born.
1927 | Journalist Midge Decter was born.
1941 | Emmet Till was born.
1941 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt bans the sale of gasoline to Japan.
1943 | Civil rights: The first U.S. warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley-class destroyer.
1952 | Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. Commonwealth.
1954 | Football Pro Walter Payton was born.
1958 | Producer Harry Warner died.
1965 | Justice Arthur J. Goldberg resigns.
1966 | Poet and author Frank O'Hara died.
1967 | A Long, hot summer of riots continues in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1967 | Actor Matt LeBlanc was born.
1968 | Richmond, California, race riots start.
1969 | Politician Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
1973 | Podcaster Mur Lafferty was born.
1982 | Actor Brad Renfro was born.
1984 | Composer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton died.
1987 | Scientist Charles Stark "Doc" Draper died.
1993 | Film: “Sleepless in Seattle” debuted.
1997 | Golf Pro Ben Hogan died.
2006 | Navy Master Diver Carl Brashear died.
2008 | Professor Randy Pausch died.
2018 | Editor Judith Appelbaum died.
2020 | Race car pro Maurice Petty died.
2021 | Activist Robert Parris "Bob" Moses died.