EVENTS:
- 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1920 – Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- 1978 – Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
- 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
- 2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
- 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
BIRTHS:
- 1875 – Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (d. 1955)
- 1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Woody Strode, American football player and actor (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
- 1930 – Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer and manager (d. 1985)
- 1954 – Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
- 1968 – Rudi Bryson, South African cricketer
- 1978 – Louise Brown, English test tube baby
- 1982 – Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
- 1991 – Toni Duggan, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Commonwealth Constitution Day, formerly Occupation Day. (Puerto Rico)
- National Day of Galicia (Galicia)
- Republic Day (Tunisia)
- Amordadegan festival (Persian Empire)
