Historical Events for 25th July 2025

1922 – ATandT begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC, later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA, and WFAN)
1956 – Pittsburgh Pirates’ Roberto Clemente hits MLB’s first and only walk-off inside-the-park grand slam for a 9-8 win over visiting Chicago Cubs at Forbes Field
1963 – Belgian Senate accepts law on language regulations
1993 – Romantic comedy film “Sleepless in Seattle,” starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and co-written and directed by Nora Ephron, is released
1997 – Howard Stern is fired from radio station KEGL in Dallas, Texas
2012 – The double-dip recession in the UK economy continues with a fall of 0.7% in GDP in the second quarter of 2012
2021 – Evian Championship Women’s Golf, Evian Resort GC: Australian Minjee Lee recovers from seven shots behind to defeat South Korea’s Lee6 Jeongeun in a playoff for her first major title
2023 – Scientists say a crucial Atlantic Ocean current is near collapse as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach its tipping point in the middle of this century

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