Today in History: Friday, July 25, 2014

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Today is Friday, July 25, the 206th day of 2014. There are 159 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On July 25, 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.

On this date:
In 1554, Queen Mary I of England married Philip II, future King of Spain.
In 1814, the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812, took place in
present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, with no clear victor.
In 1909, French aviator Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly an airplane across the English
Channel, traveling from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.
In 1934, Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated by pro-Nazi Austrians in a failed coup
attempt.
In 1943, Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under
arrest. (However, Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazis, and re-asserted his authority.)
In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
In 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New
England coast late at night and began sinking; at least 51 people were killed.
In 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.
Ten years ago: Lance Armstrong won a record sixth Tour de France.

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