Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 25

Images
Use only ONE image at a time

Eligible

 * Feast of Saint James - a commemoration of the apostle James the Great
 * 1261 – Nicaean–Latin wars: Alexios Strategopoulos led Nicaean forces to recapture Constantinople, leading to the reestablishment of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the Latin Empire.
 * 1547 – Henry II was crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral.
 * 1591 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch and English forces relieved the siege of Knodsenburg in the Spanish Netherlands, having defeated the Duke of Parma's army in the field.
 * 1893 – The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
 * 1950 – Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
 * 1965 – Bob Dylan, who had previously been known for folk music, gave a controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival playing songs with an electric guitar.
 * 1976 – The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
 * 2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109 passengers on board and four people on the ground.
 * 2007 – Pratibha Patil (pictured) was sworn in as the first female president of India.
 * 2010 – WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan in one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
 * Born/died this day: | Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem|d|1190| Henry Percy|b|1421| Elliott Fitch Shepard|b|1833| James Barry |d|1865| Maxfield Parrish|b|1870| Francis Chan|b|1913| Enriqueta Legorreta|b|1914| Rosalind Franklin|b|1920| Nestor Makhno|d|1934| Guillermo Mota|b|1973| Louise Brown|b|1978| Sarah Geronimo|b|1988| Randy Pausch|d|2008| Meg Donnelly|b|2000| Michael Johnson|d|2017| Azimzhan Askarov|d|2020|