Historical Events for 25th July 2023

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1901 - Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War
1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
1942 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 - 1st warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer
1964 - Race riot in Rochester, NY
1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1970 - Burt Bacharach and Hal David's song "(They Long to Be) Close to You" as sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
1993 - US Open Women's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (−4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson
1997 - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
2018 - Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science"

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