Today is Thursday, July 25, the 207th day of the yr 2024. There are 159 days left within the yr.
Today’s highlight of the story:
On July 25, 1972, the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment got here to light when the Associated Press reported that for the past 4 many years, the U.S. Public Health Service, in collaboration with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had treated poor, black male syphilis patients from rural areas without treatment and even allowed greater than 100 of them to die with the intention to research the disease.
Also on this date:
In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was appointed General of the United States Army, becoming the primary officer to carry that rank.
In 1946, the United States detonated the primary underwater test of an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll within the Pacific.
In 1956, the Italian passenger ship SS Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm late one night off the coast of New England and started to sink. 51 people – 46 from the Andrea Doria and five from the Stockholm – were killed. (The Andrea Doria capsized and sank the subsequent morning.)
In 1960, a Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, which had been the scene of nearly six months of sit-ins against its whites-only lunch counter, abandoned its segregation policy.
In 1978, the primary “test tube baby” was born in Oldham, England: Louise Joy Brown was conceived through artificial insemination.
In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration on the White House ending their countries' 46-year-long formal state of war.
In 2000, an Air France Concorde certain for New York crashed just after takeoff in Paris. All 109 people on board and 4 people on the bottom were killed. It was the primary ever crash of a supersonic jet.
In 2010, online whistleblower Wikileaks published around 90,000 leaked US military documents that provided an in depth account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported cases of killings of Afghan civilians and covert operations against Taliban members.
In 2018, a study published within the journal Science revealed that there appears to be an enormous saltwater lake buried deep inside Mars, raising the chance that life might be found on the planet.
In 2019, President Donald Trump made a second phone call with latest Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, asking Zelensky for assist in obtaining potentially incriminating information on former Vice President Joe Biden. That same evening, a White House Office of Management and Budget official signed a document officially putting military aid to Ukraine on hold.
During a visit to Canada in 2022, Pope Francis issued a historic statement apologizing for the Catholic Church's involvement within the “disastrous” policy of residential schools for indigenous peoples. He said the forced assimilation of indigenous peoples into Christian society had destroyed their cultures, torn families apart and marginalized generations.
Today's birthdays:
- Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living American, is 114 years old.
- Folk-pop singer and musician Bruce Woodley (The Seekers) is 82.
- Rock musician Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds) is 81.
- Reggae singer Rita Marley is 78.
- The musician Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 73.
- Model and actor Iman is 69.
- Rock musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 66.
- Celebrity chef and TV personality Geoffrey Zakarian is 65.
- Actor Matt LeBlanc is 57.
- Actress Wendy Raquel Robinson is 57.
- Actor David Denman is 51.
- Actor Jay R. Ferguson is 50.
- Actor James Lafferty (TV: “One Tree Hill”) is 39.
- Actress Meg Donnelly (TV: “American Housewife”) is 24.
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