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.
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.
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.
International Afro-descendant Women’ s Day (Día Internacional de la Mujer Afrodescendiente), also known as the International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women, BLAC Women’s Day or International Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women’s Day, is an annual awareness day observed on July 25.
World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly is observed annually on the fourth Sunday of July. It was instituted by Pope Francis in 2021.
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.
Retail Employees' Day is an official professional holiday in Ukraine and Belarus celebrated on the last Sunday in July.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Festivals on July 25, 2021
- International Computer Music Conference in Santiago, Chile
- Tenjin Matsuri in Osaka, Japan
- Jazz in Marciac in Marciac, France
- Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, USA
- Venice International Festival of Contemporary Dance (Biennale Danza) in Venice, Italy
- Hillside Festival in Guelph, Canada
- San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, USA
- Boryeong Mud Festival in Boryeong, South Korea
- Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington Township, USA
- Jackson Hot Air Jubilee in Jackson, USA
- Newport Folk Festival in Newport, USA
- Durban International Film Festival in Durban, South Africa
- WOMAD in Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Calgary Folk Music Festival in Calgary, Canada
This Day in History
- 2022 Died: Paul Sorvino, American actor. He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law.
- 2014 Died: Bel Kaufman, American teacher and author, best known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase that was adapted for screen in 1967.
- 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. He is best known for his films Midnight Cowboy, Darling, and Sunday Bloody Sunday.
- 1994 Israel and Jordan signed the Washington Declaration that formally ended the state of war that had existed between the two nations since 1948.
- 1985 Born: James Lafferty, American actor and producer, best known for his 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 was 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. It attracted scientific and popular interest due to an appearance of a humanoid face on the surface, now known as the Face of Mars.
- 1971 Born: Miriam Shor, American actress. She gained prominence for her performance in the Off-Broadway rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch and its 2011 film adaptation.
- 1967 Born: Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer, best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom Friends and in its spin-off series, Joey.
- 1966 Died: Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic, a prominent person in New York City's art world. He is regarded as a leading figure in the New York School.
- 1956 The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the MS Stockholm, a Portuguese cruise ship, in heavy fog 45 miles south of Nantucket Island. The liner sank the next day, 51 people died.
- 1955 Born: Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, professionally known as Iman, Somalian-English model and actress. She pioneered the use of ethnic cosmetics and is noted for her charitable work.
- 1946 An atomic bomb was detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. This explosion was one of a series of explosions codenamed Operation Crossroads, aimed at investigating the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.
- 1934 Born: Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter, known for his burlesque comedies. His best known film is My New Partner, which 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.
- 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 the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his 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. The 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, a prominent American politician. She was involved in a social scandal known as the Petticoat affair.
- 1865 Died: James Barry, English soldier and surgeon. After his death it turned out that Barry was born a woman named 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, the inventor of waterproof fabrics. The Mackintosh raincoat is named after him.
- 1842 Died: Dominique Jean Larrey, French physician and surgeon, remembered today for his innovations in battlefield medicine. He modified and improved the organization of field hospitals, creating the forerunner of the 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, a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
- 1794 Died: André Chénier, Greek-French poet whose sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement.
- 1790 Died: Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educator and reformer, the founder of the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but very influential progressive school in Dessau.
- 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. He pragmatically balanced the interests of the Catholic and Protestant parties in France as well as among the European states.