Santo Domingo.- The ephemeris of the 25th of July, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.
- Public Servant Day
- Feast of Saint Christopher
- Yaque del Norte River Day
- International Afro-Descendant Women’s Day (also known as Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women’s Day)
- World Drowning Prevention Day
- International Day of Judicial Wellbeing
- Constitution Day – Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
Saint’s Day: Saint Christopher of Lycia, Saint Cucufato of Barcelona and Saint Valentina of Caesarea.
Nationals:
- 1495: Founding of Santiago de los Caballeros: The town of Santiago was founded in 1495 in honor of Santiago de Compostela and initially located next to the Yaque del Norte River.
- 1969: Colonel José Demetrio Almonte Mayer arrested Henry Segarra Santos, leader of the Dominican Popular Movement, who disappeared after that arrest, in an episode still shrouded in mystery
- 1916: The Dominican Congress elects Francisco Henríquez Carvajal as provisional president during the US occupation, in a context of political crisis and foreign occupation
- 1978: President Joaquín Balaguer appointed Manuel Guaroa Liranzo as honorary colonel of the National Army, granting him the right to wear the military uniform.
International:
- 1943: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup, marking a turning point in World War II.
- 1944: Allied forces begin the breaking of German lines in Normandy, accelerating the advance towards the liberation of Western Europe.
- 1978: Louise Brown is born, the first person conceived through in vitro fertilization, a milestone in modern reproductive medicine.
Births:
- 1920: Rosalind Franklin, British scientist fundamental to the discovery of the DNA structure.
- 1955: Emmett Till, African-American teenager whose brutal murder became a symbol of the civil rights movement in the U.S.
- 1973: Guillermo Mota, Dominican baseball player.
Deaths:
- 306: Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor.
- 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet and philosopher.
- 1980: Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, actor, and poet.
- 1997: Ben Hogan, legendary American golfer.
- 2009: Harry Patch, last surviving veteran of the trenches of World War I.
