07-25-2007, 05:11 AM
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July 25th
1797 ~ Horatio Nelson lost more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island.
1834 ~ Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Kubla Khan )
1907 ~ Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
1909 ~ Louis Bleriot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine. Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.
1917 ~ Sir Thomas Whyte introduced the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1848 ~ Birthday of Arthur Balfour, UK PM, remembered for issuing the British declaration of support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1956 ~ 51 people died when the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm.
1978 ~ Louise Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England.
1984 ~ Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
2000 ~ An Air France Concorde crashed just after takeoff from Paris, killing 113.
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