Harry Warner(one of the founders of Warner Bros.)β
Louis Stephen Saint Laurent(12th Prime Minister of Canada)β
Thomas Savage(novelist)β
Jake(dog that searched for September 11th and Hurricane Katrina victims)β
Events
Walter Hunt was granted a patent for a paper shirt collarβ
Ulysses S. Grant received the rank of General of the Army, the first American officer to be so designatedβ
Seth Wheeler’s Improvement in Wrapping Papers was patented on this day, which led to perforated toilet paper.β
Canadian income tax introducedβ
The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the SS Stockholm in heavy fogβ
The first documented test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Englandβ
Soviet cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to walk in spaceβ
Germany’s Kuno the Killer catfish’s carcass washed up on shore. The 5-foot-long, 77 pound catfish sprang from the waters of Volksgarden Park Lake in 2001 to swallow a dachshund puppy wholeβ
A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southwestern Montanaβ
Weather
24-hour (July 24 to 25), 43-inch rainfall, Alvin, Texasβ