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• ... that El Molino Viejo (pictured), a grist mill built in 1816 by native Indian converts from the San Gabriel Mission, is the oldest commercial building in Southern California?
• ... that John Palmer instigated a major reform of the British postal system in 1784, when his experimental mail coach run from Bristol to London took only 16 hours instead of 38 hours?
• ... that South Ockendon Windmill had a pair of millstones powered by a waterwheel?
• ... that Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth?
• ... that comedian Al Madrigal’s first television series, The Ortegas, was dropped from the Fox Network schedule in 2003 before any episodes were broadcast?
• ... that Norwegian politician Christian Birch-Reichenwald was brought in as a government minister by then-Crown Prince Charles in 1858, only to be provoked by the same person to resign three years later?
• ... that the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial depicts the historical event of an Union officer aiding a Confederate officer at the Battle of Gettysburg, due to both being Freemasons?
  

• A series of bomb blasts in Bangalore, India kills two people and injures twenty.
• The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq's team from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics because of interference by the government in the national-level committee.
• Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
• India's United Progressive Alliance-led government (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pictured) survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdraws its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
• The first trial of a Guantanamo Bay detention camp inmate begins with Salim Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.

July 25: Commonwealth Constitution Day in Puerto Rico; Galicia Day in Galicia, Spain

• 306 – Constantine I (statue pictured) was proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus.
• 1536 – Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded Santiago de Cali in present-day western Colombia while on his search for the mythical city of El Dorado.
• 1792 – French Revolutionary Wars: Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick issued the Brunswick Manifesto to the population of Paris, promising vengeance if King Louis XVI and other members of the French Royal Family were harmed.
• 1978 – Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed by police at Cerro Maravilla in Villalba, Puerto Rico, sparking a series of political controversies where the police officers were eventually convicted of murder and several high-ranking local government officials were accused of covering up the incident.
• 2000 – Air France Concorde Flight 4590, en route from Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, crashed in Gonesse, France.

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