Today’s highlight in history
On July 25, 1960, a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whites-only lunch counter dropped its segregation policy.
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In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.
In 1956, the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; 51 people — 46 from the Andrea Doria, five from the Stockholm — were killed. (The Andrea Doria capsized and sank the following morning.)
In 1972, The Associated Press reported that, for four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, to study the disease.
In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby,” was born in Oldham, England; she’d been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
In 1985, a spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed that the actor was suffering from AIDS. (Hudson died in October 1985.)
In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old state of war.
In 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first crash of the supersonic jet.
Ten years ago: Protesters across the world called on Iran to end its clampdown on opposition activists.
Five years ago: President Barack Obama met with the presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador; he urged the leaders and congressional Republicans to help ease the influx of minors and migrant families crossing the U.S. border.
One year ago: President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced they would work toward “zero tariffs” and “zero subsidies” on non-automobile goods.