Volume 13 , Issue 30

This Day In History (July 25)

On July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people. The trans-atlantic liners Andrea Doria and Stockholm collided in a heavy Atlantic fog at 11:22 o'clock the night ofJuly 25, 1956, forty-five miles south of Nantucket island. All the 1,134 passengers aboard to abandon ship and it was reported to had been rescued at 4:58 A.M. Go to Article.

On July 25, 1848, Arthur James Balfour, the British statesman best remembered for issuing the British declaration of support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, was born. Following his death on March 19, 1930, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to Obituary

On This Day, July 25th

• 1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
• 1868 - Congress passed an Act creating the Wyoming Territory.
• 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
• 1965 - Where were you when Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival by playing electric guitar.
• 1975 - The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway.
• 1978 - The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.
• 1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

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