Today is Tuesday, July 25th, the 206th day of the year. There are 159
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES National Hot Dog Month,
National Ice Cream Month, National Blueberry Month, Unlucky
Month for Weddings, Culinarians Day, Threading The Needle Day,
National Chili Dog Day!
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Rita Marley, 77, singer
Verdine White, 72, bass player/producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Iman, 68, model/actress
Wendy Raquel Robinson, 55, actress
D.B. Woodside, 53, actor
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Woody Strode, 108, football player/actor (d. 1994)
Benny Benjamin, 98, drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969)
Nate Thurmond, 82, basketball player (2016)
Emmett Till, 82, murder victim (d. 1955)
Walter Payton, 69, football player (d. 1999)
DEATHS
Big Mama Thornton, 1984, singer/songwriter (b. 1926)
Carl Brashear, 2006, first African-American U.S Navy Master
Diver (b. 1931)
Vernon Forrest, 2009, boxer (b. 1971)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1777 – First Black Baptist church in America organized by
eight slaves at Silver Bluff, South Carolina.
1861 – The U.S. Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson
Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve
the Union and not to end slavery.
1916 – Wearing the protective mask he invented, Garrett Morgan
enters a gas-filled tunnel with a rescue party after an under-
ground explosion in Cleveland, six lives are saved.
1933 – 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1943 – 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard
Roy Harmon, launched.
1966 – The Supremes release “You Can’t Hurry Love”.
1969 – Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene
of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident
that killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
1972 – US health officials concede blacks were used as
guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment.
1978 – Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby”
is born.
1997 – Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort
$40M from Bill Cosby.
2012 – The 2012 Summer Olympics begin.
HOROSCOPE
Being a Leo born on July 25th, you are characterized by your highly outgoing and independent nature. While others may stray away from being the center of attention, it is a place where you thrive. Your highly social nature makes you a person that takes fulfillment from loving and being loved. While you are warm, you also naturally take charge and never turn down an opportunity to take control. In most cases this quality is appreciated by your loved ones, although they may sometimes feel you are being downright bossy!
