Holidays Calendar for July 25, 2021

Puerto Rico annually celebrates Constitution Day on July 25. This public holiday honors the day, when the Constitution of Puerto Rico was approved in 1952.

Many countries around the world celebrate Republic Day on different days, that marked some important events in their history. For instance, Tunisia celebrates this holiday on July 25 to honor the day, when the National Assembly abolished monarchy in the country and proclaimed it to be the Republic of Tunisia.

July 25 is Guanacaste Day in Costa Rica. This holiday celebrates the day, when the province of Guanacaste was annexed by Costa Rica from Nicaragua.

July 25 is National Baha'i Day in Jamaica. This holiday was established only in 2003, since then it became very popular among the Baha'i communities. Even leaders of other religious communities join the celebration of this holiday.

Reek Sunday, also known as Garland Sunday, is an annual day of pilgrimage in Ireland that occurs on the last Sunday in July. On this day, pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick, a mountain in County Mayo associated with Saint Patrick.

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Vassa, also referred to as Buddhist Lent or Rains Retreat, is the three-month annual retreat observed by the practitioners of Theravada Buddhism. The first day of Vassa is a public holiday in Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.

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International Red Shoe Day is observed annually on July 25. It was created to raise awareness of the so-called invisible illnesses — physical, mental and neurological conditions that are not immediately apparent to others but can hurt just as much as illnesses with easily visible symptoms.

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly is observed annually on the fourth Sunday of July. It was instituted by Pope Francis in 2021.

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Fire Service Day is a professional holiday of all firefighters of Belarus. This holiday is annually observed on July 25, commemorating the day, when the statement for maintaining the fire department in the Minsk Governorate was adopted in 1863. This date officially became the birthday of the fire service in Belarus.

Road Transport Workers’ Day is an official professional holiday in Tajikistan. It is celebrated annually on July 25.

Navy Day in Russia is celebrated on the last Sunday in July. This holiday originated in the Soviet Union.

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Retail Employees' Day is an official professional holiday in Ukraine and Belarus celebrated on the last Sunday in July.

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National Campus Press Freedom Day is observed in the Philippines annually on July 25. It was established by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2019 to promote, protect and safeguard the right to freedom of speech, expression, and the press in educational institutions.

Retail Employees’ Day, also known as Retail Workers’ Day or Trade Workers’ Day, is a professional holiday celebrated in many former Soviet republics, albeit on different dates. In Kazakhstan, for example, retail employees are congratulated on their professional holiday on the fourth Sunday of July.

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Australians are concerned about the environmental situation of Australia. Many ecological observances were created to raise public awareness of environmental issues. One of these observances is National Tree Day in Australia, that is annually observed on the last Sunday in July.

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National Day of Galicia (Día Nacional de Galicia) is the national holiday of the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain. It is celebrated on July 25. The holiday is also known as Day of the Galician Fatherland (Día da Patria Galega) or simply Galicia Day (Día de Galicia).

There are four kinds of flag days in Denmark: national holidays, major religious holidays, birthdays in the royal family, and military flag-flying days. The anniversary of the Battle of Isted belongs to the last category. It is observed annually on July 25 to commemorate the last major battle during the First Schleswig War.

July 25 is National Hot Fudge Sundae Day. This food holiday celebrates a delicious ice cream dessert topped with hot sweet sauce.

Wine and cheese are the ultimate food pairing, and have been for millennia. So it is not surprising that someone came up with the idea of celebrating National Wine and Cheese Day. This unofficial holiday has been celebrated every July 25 since 2014.

National Merry-Go-Round Day is celebrated on July 25 in honor of one of the world’s oldest and most popular amusement rides. It is the perfect day to go to an amusement park, a carnival, or a fair and ride a carousel to your heart’s content.

World Drowning Prevention Day is a United Nations observance held annually on July 25. It was established by the General Assembly to raise global awareness of the importance of drowning safety and encourage relevant stakeholders to take measures to improve water safety.

National Schizophrenia Awareness Day in the United Kingdom is observed annually on July 25. It was created to raise awareness of the challenges that people living with schizophrenia face on a daily basis, as well as to combat the stigma surrounding this common yet severely misunderstood mental illness.

In the Dominican Republic, Father's Day is celebrated on the last Sunday in July. Although it is not an official holiday, it is observed by many people across the country.

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The fourth Sunday in July is Parents' Day in the USA. This holiday is a kind of combination of Father's Day and Mother's Day.

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National Pisco Day is a Peruvian holiday celebrated on the fourth Sunday of July. It is dedicated to a local alcoholic beverage that is a source of pride for all Peruvians. National Pisco Day was officially instituted in 1999 and has been celebrated every year since.

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National Hire a Veteran Day is observed annually on July 25. It was created to encourage employees to hire veterans who may encounter difficulties transitioning from a military career to a civilian one.


This Day in History

  • 2010 One of the largest leaks in military history of the USA: WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan. Most of the documents were classified secret.
  • 2008 Died: Tracy Hall, American chemist and academic, the first person who grew a synthetic diamond according to a reproductive, verifiable and witnessed process, using a press of his own design.
  • 2003 Died: John Schlesinger, English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, winner of Academy Award for Best Director. He is best known for films Midnight Cowboy, Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday.
  • 1994 Israel and Jordan signed the Washington Declaration, that formally ended the state of war, existing between two nations since 1948.
  • 1985 Born: James Lafferty, American actor and producer, best known for portrayal of Nathan Scott on the CW TV series One Tree Hill.
  • 1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk. She is the second woman in space, after another Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
  • 1978 Born: Louise Brown, English woman, known as the first human who was born after conception by in vitro fertilization.
  • 1976 Spacecraft Viking 1 took the photo of Cydonia, a region on Mars. The photo of Cydonia attracted scientific and popular interest due to an appearance of a humanoid face on the surface. This image is now known as the Face of Mars.
  • 1967 Born: Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer, best remembered for role on NBC sitcom Friends, where he played Joey Tribbiani.
  • 1966 Died: Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic, a prominent person in New York City's art world. He is regarded as the leading figure in the New York School, an informal group of artists, musicians and writers, who drew inspiration from jazz, abstract expressionism, surrealism, action painting and avant-garde art movements.
  • 1956 The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the MS Stockholm, Portuguese cruise ship, in heavy fog 45 miles south of Nantucket Island. The liner sank the next day, 51 died.
  • 1955 Born: Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, professionally known as Iman, Somalian-English model and actress. She pioneered use of ethnic cosmetics and noted for her charitable work. Iman is wife of David Bowie.
  • 1946 An atomic bomb was detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. This explosion was one of the series of explosions codenamed Operation Crossroads, aimed at investigation of the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.
  • 1934 Born: Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter, known for his burlesque comedies. He is best known for film My New Partner, that brought him two César Awards for Best Film and Best Director.
  • 1920 Born: Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic. She is remembered for her critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. Her work on DNA achieved the most profound impact.
  • 1909 French inventor Louis Blériot became the first person to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover. The trip took 37 minutes.
  • 1905 Born: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author and playwright. He was awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power.
  • 1894 Born: Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a pretext for Austria-Hungary's invasion of Serbia, that later led to World War I.
  • 1866 Died: Floride Calhoun, American wife of John C. Calhoun, prominent American politician John C. Calhoun. She was involved in a social scandal, known as the Petticoat affair, which damaged already-strained relations between Vice President Calhoun and President Andrew Jackson.
  • 1865 Died: James Barry, English soldier and surgeon. After his death it turned out, that Barry was a woman, whose name was Margaret Ann Bulkley.
  • 1844 Born: Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist. He is best known for heading the excavations, that found the remnants of early humans named Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis).
  • 1844 Born: Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor, and photographer, widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
  • 1843 Died: Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and engineer, inventor of waterproof fabrics. The Mackintosh raincoat is named after him.
  • 1842 Died: Dominique Jean Larrey, French physician and surgeon, remembered today for innovations in battlefield medicine. He modified and improved the organization of field hospitals, creating the forerunner of the modern MASH units.
  • 1837 William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone successfully demonstrated the first commercial use of an electric telegraph between Euston and Camden Town in London.
  • 1834 Died: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic, the founder of the Romantic Movement in England and member of the Lake Poets.
  • 1794 Died: André Chénier, Greek-French poet, victim of the French Revolution, accused for crimes against the state. His sensual, emotive poetry marked him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement.
  • 1790 Died: Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educator and reformer, the founder of the Philanthropinum, the short-lived but very influential progressive school in Dessau. He is known for reformation of schools, common methods of instruction and establishment of an institute for qualifying teachers.
  • 1603 James VI of Scotland was crowned king of England, thus bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would be achieved only a century later.
  • 1593 Henry IV of France publicly converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. In 1589 he gave religious liberties to Protestants, thereby ending the Wars of Religion.