Day in History Archive July 25

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Note: These historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet. As detailed in this article, there is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with hyperlinks have been verified. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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July 25

1843: Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, inventor of the rubberized raincoat that bears his name, died. 1909: Louis Blériot made the first successful crossing the English Channel in his Blériot XI monoplane. 1946: The first underwater nuclear explosion took place with the "Baker" atomic bomb during "Operation Crossroads" at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. 1956: The Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people. 1959: The SR.N1 hovercraft became the first hovercraft to cross the English Channel. 1969: Sen. Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of the crime at Chappaquiddick, where he left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in the car he drove off a bridge while drunk. 1978: Louise Joy Brown, the first test tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. 1987: Charles Draper, "the father of inertial navigation," died. 1984: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.