This day in history - July 25
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:25 pm
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named to the newly created rank of General of the Army of the United States, the equivalent of a modern 5-star general.
1868 - Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1898 - U.S. forces occupied Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
1909 - Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning a £1000 prize.
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1944 - A Messerschmitt Me 262 became the first jet-fighter to see action in wartime.
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1952 - Puerto Rico achieved the commonwealth status that it has today.
1978 - Louise Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization and brought to term, was born in England. Called a "test-tube" baby at the time, ominous predictions of the coming of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, etc., were rampant.
- Jim
1868 - Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1898 - U.S. forces occupied Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
1909 - Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning a £1000 prize.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay ... 09/EX1.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
1944 - A Messerschmitt Me 262 became the first jet-fighter to see action in wartime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
1952 - Puerto Rico achieved the commonwealth status that it has today.
1978 - Louise Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization and brought to term, was born in England. Called a "test-tube" baby at the time, ominous predictions of the coming of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, etc., were rampant.
- Jim