Monday, July 25, 2005

On This Day: Monday July 25, 2005 This is the 206th day of the year, with 159 days remaining in 2005. Fact of the Day: salad Salad is any of a wide variety of dishes that fall into the following principal categories: green salads; vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry, or seafood; and fruit salads. Most salads are traditionally served cold, although some, such as German potato salad, are served hot. The earliest salads were wild greens and herbs seasoned with salt; these were the first vegetable foods available in spring and acted as a tonic after a dull winter diet. Salad gets its name from Latin sal 'salt.' 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. Events 1832 - The first recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurred, on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts. 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. 1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory. 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico. 1909 - Louis Bleriot first crossed the English Channel in an airplane. 1917 - Margaretha Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death. 1943 - Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as Dictator of Italy, bringing an end to the Fascist regime. 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. 1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm, 45 miles south of Nantucket Island; 51 people died. 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. 2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth Tour de France bicycle race, in an amazing comeback after his bout with cancer. Births 1844 - Thomas Eakins, American painter. 1937 - Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist. Deaths 1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor.

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