July 25

This day in history:

• 2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
• 1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
• 1869 – The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
• 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.

Births:

• 1986 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet and critic
• 1869 – Platon, Estonian bishop and saint (d. 1919)

Deaths:

• 1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
• 1190 – Sibylla, queen of Jerusalem
• 2012 – Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)

Holidays:

• Republic Day (Tunisia)
• International Afro-descendant Women's Day
• Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while July 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Sunday in July. (Dominican Republic)

Random Article of the day:

Cvitović, Croatia

Cvitović is a village in Croatia, under the Slunj township, in Karlovac County.

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