SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2020

1814 ― Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British

1943 ― Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WWII

1946 ― U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini Atoll (5th atomic explosion)

1947 ― U.S. Department of the Army created

1956 ― Jordanians attack U.N. Palestine truce

1963 ― U.S., Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty

1965 ― Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electric guitar at Newport Folk Festival

1966 ― Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"

1975 ― "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers

1983 ― First nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio

1984 ― Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space

1990 ― U.S Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute