WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. JULY
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Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo. (25. July 1976)

Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders. (25. July 1978)

Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born. (25. July 1978)

Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt. (25. July 1979)

Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. (25. July 1983)

Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. (25. July 1984)

Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War. (25. July 1993)

The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. (25. July 1993)

Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948. (25. July 1994)

A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. (25. July 1995)

In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. (25. July 1996)

Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground. (25. July 2000)

Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president. (25. July 2007)

WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. (25. July 2010)

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