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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