July 25, 1980
Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
July 25, 1948
Bread, which was never rationed during wartime, was put on the ration in July 1948.
July 25, 1930
Annabelle McCauley Allan Short(25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020), known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, …
July 25, 1919
Sir Samuel McCaughey (1 July 1835 – 25 July 1919) was an Irish-born pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia.
July 25, 1917
The Irish Convention was an assembly which sat in Dublin, Ireland from July 1917 until March 1918 to address the Irish question and other constitutional problems relating to an early enactment of …
July 25, 1848
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the …
July 25, 1843
The Mackintosh or raincoat (abbreviated as mac) is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made of rubberised fabric.
July 25, 1820
Michael Angelo Hayes, RHA (1820 – 1877) was an Irish watercolourist who specialised in painting horses and military subjects.
July 25, 1814
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously …
July 25, 1758
Elizabeth Hamilton (1756 or 1758 – 23 July 1816) was a Scottish essayist, poet, satirist and novelist, who in both her prose and fiction entered into the French-revolutionary era controversy in …
July 25, 1633
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, KG (13 April 1593 (NS) – 12 May 1641) was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War.
July 25, 1394
James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437.
