What happend on 25th July

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1977

A supposed thunderbird is reported attacking a boy named Marlon Lowe.

1976

The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach

1973

Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.

1969

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.

1965

Newport Folk Festival: Bob Dylan goes electric.

1958

The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.

1956

45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51.

1952

Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1946

Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean when the United States detonates the "Baker Day" device.

1946

At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.