07-25-2005, 05:05 AM
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July 25th
1797 ~ Horatio Nelson lost more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island.
1814 ~ Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrived near Niagara for General Riall's British and Canadian force. A bloody, all-night battle with American invaders began at 18.00; Americans retreated to Fort Erie.
1834 ~ Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Kubla Khan )
1897 ~ Writer Jack London sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he wrote his first successful stories.
1907 ~ Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
1909 ~ Louis Bleriot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine. Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.
1917 ~ Sir Thomas Whyte introduced the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1952 ~ Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
1978 ~ The first so-called test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born.
2000 ~ An Air France Concorde crashed just after takeoff from Paris, killing 114.
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