On This Day: July 25th

National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.

As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.

WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.

Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.

Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.

In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.

A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.

Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.

Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.