Day in History - “25 July”
What happened on 25 July in History:
Someone has rightly said that history is not made in a day! But, one day can bring many changes in history.
If you're curious about today's historical events, you've come to the right source. Each day presents us with a range of significant occurrences that have shaped both Indian and world history. Today, we commemorate several noteworthy events that have taken place on this very day in the past.
World Embryologist Day
On 25 July 1978, Louise Joy Brown became the first baby to be conceived through IVF or in vitro fertilization and so the date is celebrated as World Embryologists Day every year.
1976 - The famous Face on Mars photo is taken
As the Viking 1 mission circled the red planet in search of a landing site for its sister ship, Viking 2, it snapped photos of Mars for engineers at NASA to study. On July 25, 1976, it captured the image of a pile of rocks that greatly resembled a human face.
1978 - World's first test tube baby is born
The birth of the world's first 'test-tube baby', Louise Brown, on 25 July 1978 in Oldham, northwest England has come to represent the origin story of technologically assisted human reproduction.
1982 - Zail Singh was sworn in as the seventh President of India.
He took the oath of office on 25 July 1982. He was the first Sikh to hold the office. He served beside Gandhi and protocol dictated that he should be briefed every week by her on the affairs of the state.
1984 - Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space
On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
1987 - R. Venkataraman becomes the eighth President of India.
Ramaswamy Venkataraman was an Indian lawyer, freedom-fighter and politician who served as an Union minister and as the 8th President of India.
1992 – SD Sharma became the ninth President of India
Shankar Dayal Sharma was the ninth president of India, serving from 1992 to 1997. Prior to his presidency, Sharma had been the eighth vice president of India, serving under R. Venkataraman.
2007 - Pratibha Patil sworn in as India’s 1st female President.
Patil was the first female president of India. She is a member of the Indian National Congress. She had previously served as the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007.
2017 - Ram Nath Kovind becomes 14th President of India.
Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician who served as the 14th President of India from 25 July 2017 till 24 July 2022. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
2022 - Droupadi Murmu takes oath as 15th President of India
Ms Murmu, who succeeds Ram Nath Kovind, is India's youngest President at 64 and the first to be born after Independence. She took her oath of office in Hindi and in the name of God to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law".
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