📜 This Day in History

July 25

• 306Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus.
• 1591Eighty Years' War: Dutch and English forces relieved the siege of Knodsenburg in the Spanish Netherlands, having defeated the Duke of Parma's army in the field.
• 1898Spanish–American War: After more than two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invaded Puerto Rico.
• 1950Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
• 2001Phoolan Devi, a serving Indian member of Parliament, was shot outside her house in New Delhi, India.
• 2022The Duffield Memorial in Great Baddow, an "unusual example of Art Nouveau design in metal work", was designated a listed building by Historic England.

Born on this day

• 1848Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
• 1894Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian Serb revolutionary and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (died 1918)
• 1905Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
• 1920Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic. Contributor to basic research of DNA. (died 1958)