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| | Today Friday, 25 July 2008 in History |
| 1848 Arthur Balfour, British statesman | | 1894 Walter Brennan, American film actor/Oscar winner | | 1930 Annie Ross, British singer | | 1937 Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist | | 1948 Steve Goodman, American songwriter | | 1954 Walter Payton, Former 'Chicago Bears' player |
| 1834 Samuel Coolridge, the English poet, died | | 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first man to cross the Channel by aeroplane | | 1943 Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, was forced to resign | | 1957 Tunisia, North Africa, became an independent republic | | 1978 The first ever 'test tube baby', Louise Brown, was born in Britain | | 1981 The American spacecraft Voyager 2 reached the planet Saturn | | 1984 A soviet cosmonaut became the first woman to walk in space |
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