TODAY IN HISTORY

MONDAY JUL 25, 2022

1866

Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.

1943

Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest.

1946

The United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.

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.

1960

A Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whitesonly lunch counter dropped its segregation policy.

1978

Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby,” was born in Oldham, England; she’d been conceived through the technique of in-vitro fertilization.

1994

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old formal state of war.

2000

A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet.

2010

The online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records that amounted to a blow-byblow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.