Today is Monday, July 25, the 206th day of 2011. There are 159 days left in the year.
1799 ― French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1871 ― Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1943 ― Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1944 ― First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1946 ― First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1964 ― Beatles' ``Hard Day's Night, A," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 14 weeks
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 first woman to walk in space
1985 ― Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS