July 25: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 306Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his soldiers; Constantinople would later bear his name.
2. 1261Forces of the Empire of Nicaea recaptured Constantinople from the Latins, restoring the Byzantine Empire.
3. 1788Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his famous Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
4. 1837The electric telegraph was demonstrated in London in its first commercial use.
5. 1984Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya made history as the first woman to perform a spacewalk.

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