Today In History

Tue., July 25, 2000

In 1866: Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.

In 1946: The United States detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.

In 1952: Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

In 1956: 51 people died when the Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast.

In 1978: Louise Joy Brown, the first test tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; she had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

In 1994: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old formal state of war.

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