History for July 25

History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com 

Eric Hoffer 1902

• 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.
• 1907 - Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
• 1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel.
• 1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.
• 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
• 1994 - Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948.