Today is Friday, July 25, 2008.

Born on This Day

1894 Walter Brennan
1902 Eric Hoffer, US longshoreman, author (The True Believer).
1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (Nobel 1981).
1924 Estelle Getty
1935 Barbara Harris
1954 Walter Payton
1978 Louise Brown, 1st test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex)

Events

325 The Council of Nicea closes. Drafted Nicean creed and fixed formula for Easter Sunday.
1899 Stuart K. Hine, wrote "How Great Thou Art."
1909 first airplane flight across the English Channel.
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collision with Stockholm.
1963 US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
1968 Pope John Paul VI publishes "Humanae Vitae," which condemns artificial birth control.
1973 USSR launches Mars 5
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn, "thousands of rings".
1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton earth-study satellite.

That's all for today.