What happend on 25th July

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1944

World War II: Operation Spring

1943

World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.

1934

Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.

1920

Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.

1917

Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).

1909

Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover in 37 minutes).

1908

Ajinomoto is born. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG) and patents a process for manufacturing it.

1907

Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.

1898

The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at Guánica Bay.

1897

Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.