July 25 is

Red Shoe Day

Culinarians Day

Merry-Go-Round Day

Thread the Needle Day

World Festivals and National Holidays

Costa Rica – Annexation of Guanacaste

Cuba – Revolution Anniversary

Puerto Rico – Constitution Day

Germany – Bayreuth: Wagner Festspiele (1^st day)

Japan – Aichi: Owari Tsushima Tenno Matsuri
(Shinto Feast honoring Emperor at end of naval battle)

Spain – Galicia:  Dìa Nacional de Galicia

Tunisia – Republic Day

US Virgin Islands –  Hurricane Supplication Day

On This Day in HISTORY

1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France

1554 – (“Bloody”) Mary I of England marries Philip II of Spain

1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned King of England, becoming James I there

1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua

1837 – First successful demonstration of commercial electrical telegraph

1850 – Gold discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon

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1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, Californio bandito, is killed

1866 – U.S. Congress authorizes 5 star rank of General of the Army for Ulysses S. Grant

1868 – Wyoming becomes a U.S. territory

1893 – The Corinth Canal in Greece is used for the first time

1943 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini overthrown in a coup

1946 – U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll, first underwater test

1952 – Puerto Rico becomes self-governing commonwealth of U.S.

1966 – The Supremes release “You Can’t Hurry Love”

1975 – “A Chorus Line” debuted on Broadway, and ran for 6,137 performances

1978 – Louise Joy Brown, first in-vitro fertilization test-tube baby, born in England.

1984 – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space.

2010 – WikiLeaks leaked more than 90,000 internal reports on the War in Afghanistan

VISUALS

• Merry-Go-Round
• International Flags
• Eleanor of Aquitaine drawn from carving on her tomb at Fontevrault (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
• Guanacaste
• New York Times headline – Mussolini Ousted