Today is Thursday, July 25, the 206th day of 2013. There are 159 days left in the year.
1799 ― French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at “Battle of Abukir”
1940 ― John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River
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
1963 ― U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear test ban treaty
1975 ― “A Chorus Line,” longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers
1981 ― Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1984 ― Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space
1985 ― Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS