On This Day: July 25
Today is Friday, July 25, 2008. This is the 207th day of the year, with 159 days remaining in 2008.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Christopher, Saints Thea, Valentina and Paul, St. James the Greater, and St. Magnericus.
Spain: St. James Day.
Costa Rica: Guanacaste Day.
Puerto Rico: Constitution Day.
Tunisia: Republic Day.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
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.
2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president.
2007 - Jeremy Clarkson and James May become the first people to reach the magnetic North Pole in a car.
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor.
clipped from www.reference.com
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