Celebrated on the fourth Saturday in July, this is a day to explore cowboy culture and heritage and to acknowledge the contributions of cowboys and cowgirls across the United States
Daily Calendar for Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Saturday, July 25, 2026
Born
- Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (U.S. First Lady) –
- Thomas Eakins (artist) –
- Walter Brennan (actor) –
- Eric Hoffer (philosopher) –
- Estelle Getty (American actress ) –
- Emitt Till –
- Matt LeBlanc (actor) –
- Gerard Warren (football player) –
Died
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) –
- Harry Warner (one of the founders of Warner Bros.) –
- Louis Stephen Saint Laurent (12th Prime Minister of Canada) –
- Thomas Savage (novelist) –
- Jake (dog that searched for September 11th and Hurricane Katrina victims) –
Events
- Walter Hunt was granted a patent for a paper shirt collar –
- Ulysses S. Grant received the rank of General of the Army, the first American officer to be so designated –
- Seth Wheeler’s Improvement in Wrapping Papers was patented on this day, which led to perforated toilet paper. –
- Canadian income tax introduced –
- The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog –
- The first documented test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in England –
- Soviet cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to walk in space –
- 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 whole –
- A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southwestern Montana –
Weather
- 24-hour (July 24 to 25), 43-inch rainfall, Alvin, Texas –