25 JULY PRESENT AND PAST WORLD EVENTS

What happened on 25 July in the annals of History. Many notable world events occurred on this date concerning the present and past. We first take a look at our past chronological important events and at the end, we will describe the current world eye-catching events in brief.

1. WORLD DROWNING PREVENTION DAY:

Every year on July 25th, the World Drowning Prevention Day is observed. This event was declared in April 2021 by a UN General Assembly resolution. It aims to raise awareness about the devastating impact of drowning on families and communities worldwide. The day also provides an excellent opportunity to promote life-saving strategies and prevent this tragedy from happening.

2. FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT :

Pratibha Patil, a lawyer, and politician was sworn in as the first female president of India on this day in 2007 for a term of five years.

3. FIRST WOMAN WHO WALKS IN SPACE:

On this day in 1984, Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space, She was a Soviet cosmonaut and a part of the Soyuz T-12 mission, which docked at the Salyut 7 Space station. She was also the second woman to go into space and the first to go to space twice.

4. FIRST TEST TUBE BABY WAS BORN:

On this day in 1978, World's first test tube baby is born. Louise Joy Brown was the first person to be conceived using in-vitro fertilization or IVF technology, pioneered by doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in England.

5. RED PLANET PHOTO:

On this day in 1976, the renowned photograph of the Face on Mars was captured. Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.

6. TUNISIA FREEDOM:

Today marks a significant milestone in Tunisian history as the country gained independence from France in 1956. Tunisia had been under the French protectorate since 1881, as per the Treaty of Bardo. However, the road to independence was not without its challenges. Civil unrest and conflict plagued the country during this time, but the leadership of Habib Bourguiba ultimately led to Tunisia becoming an independent nation with him as its first president.

7. ASSASSINATION OF PHOOLAN DEVI:

Phoolan Devi was born in the village of Gorha Ka Purwa in Jalaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India on 10 August 1963. She was an Indian bandit who went from being a notorious outlaw to a Member of Parliament. She was a Dalit woman who was gang-raped at the age of 11 by upper-caste men, and later joined a bandit gang and became its leader. She was imprisoned for 11 years, but was released in 1994 and later elected to Parliament. On this day, 25 July 2001, she was assassinated in New Delhi at the age of 37.

8. DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF SAMUEL TAYLOR:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England in 1772. He met William Wordsworth in 1795 and they collaborated on Lyrical Ballads, a key work of the Romantic Movement. He struggled with addiction to opium for much of his life and died on this day of 25 July in 1834.

9. WYOMING TERRITORY:

Wyoming is a state in the United States of America. On this date, 25 July 1868, President Andrew Johnson signed the Wyoming Organic Act creating the Wyoming Territory using lands from the Dakota, Idaho, and Utah territories. The first territorial capital was Cheyenne. It was the first territory in the United States to grant women's suffrage i.e. the political rights of the women to cast their vote.

10. WHO WORKSHOP ON BIODIVERSITY, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE:

World Health Organization (WHO) with Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) hosting the first global workshop on biodiversity, traditional knowledge, health, and well-being from July 25-28, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The workshop will bring together stakeholders from around the world to discuss the role of biodiversity and traditional knowledge in promoting health and well-being. The workshop will focus on four key areas - the contribution of biodiversity and traditional knowledge to health and well-being, challenges to the sustainable use of biodiversity and traditional knowledge, opportunities for strengthening the role of biodiversity and traditional knowledge in health and well-being, the role of policy in promoting the use of traditional knowledge for health.