1834: English Romantic poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge died. The years 1797 and 1798, during which he lived at Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset, were among the most fruitful of Coleridge’s life and where he wrote his notable poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.
1976: NASA captures ‘Face on Mars’ photo. NASA’s Viking 1 took the first images of the “Face on Mars,” a rock formation on the Red Planet that looked shockingly like a human face, on this day in history in 1976.
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1978: World’s first “test tube” baby born On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown. The healthy baby was delivered shortly before midnight by cesarean section and weighed in at five pounds, 12 ounces.
Before giving birth to Louise, Lesley Brown had suffered years of infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes. In November 1977, she underwent the then-experimental IVF procedure. A mature egg was removed from one of her ovaries and combined in a laboratory dish with her husband’s sperm to form an embryo. The embryo then was implanted into her uterus a few days later. Her IVF doctors, British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and scientist Robert Edwards, had begun their pioneering collaboration a decade earlier.
2007: India gets its first female president. Pratibha Patil, a politician stayed in office as the head of state of the South Asian country for 5 years.
1984: Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space
The Soviet cosmonaut was part of the Soyuz T-12 mission, which docked at the Salyut 7 Space station. As part of the mission, she spent 3.5 hours in space testing tools. Savitskaya was also the second woman to go into space and the first to go to space twice.
1976: The famous Face on Mars photo is taken
Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.
1956: Tunisia gains its independence from France
The northernmost African country, became a French protectorate in 1881, under the Treaty of Bardo. The path to independence in the country was marred by civil unrest and conflict and was led by Habib Bourguiba, who became the first president of the independent country.
1943: Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who tells Il Duce that the war is lost. Mussolini responded to it all with an uncharacteristic meekness.
1965: Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, the beginning of folk-rock
2000: Air France flight 4590 A Concorde supersonic airplane—Air France flight 4590—crashed outside Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four others on the ground; the event was believed to have hastened the end of all Concorde operations three years later.:
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: July 25
Verdine White, 73 years
Verdine Adams White was born on 25 July 1951. He is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist for the band Earth, Wind & Fire. White was placed at No. 19 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time.
