July 25 - Trouble

Trouble

This Day In History

306

Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

1538

The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.

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.

1609

The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.

1788

Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

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.

1897

Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

1909

Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.

1976

Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.

1978

Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.

Famous Birthdays

1657

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German Baroque composer (d. 1714)

1844

Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)

1870

Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)

1875

Jim Corbett, Irish-Indian hunter, pioneer conservationist and author (d. 1955)

1920

Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)

1945

Donna Theodore, American actress and singer

1948

Brian Stableford, British science fiction writer

1954

Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)