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July 25
306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
1920 – Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
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.
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
[To all this we can add, kings being crowned and arches being built, battles being fought and Spanish cities being founded in the New World, battles were waged, Mussolini was forced to resign, France does a bit of conquering and Napoleonic fighting, the Tamil prisoners being killed by fellow Sinhalese prisoners, other massacres, coup d'etats and bomb attacks taking place, etc]
(source: wikipedia)
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