Daily Calendar for July 25th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1770s

• Born 1775: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (U.S. First Lady)

1830s

• Died 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet)

1840s

• Born 1844: Thomas Eakins (artist)

1850s

• 1854: Walter Hunt was granted a patent for a paper shirt collar

1860s

• 1866: Ulysses S. Grant received the rank of General of the Army, the first American officer to be so designated

1870s

• 1871: Seth Wheeler's "Improvement in Wrapping Papers" was patented on this day, which led to perforated toilet paper.150 Years Ago

1890s

• Born 1894: Walter Brennan (actor)

1900s

• Born 1902: Eric Hoffer (philosopher)

1910s

• 1917: Canadian income tax introduced

1920s

• Born 1924: Estelle Getty (actress)

1950s

• 1956: The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog

• Died 1958: Harry Warner (one of the founders of Warner Bros.)

1960s

• Born 1967: Matt LeBlanc (actor)

1970s

• Died 1973: Louis Stephen Saint Laurent (12th Prime Minister of Canada)

• 1978: The first documented test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in England

• Born 1978: Gerard Warren (football player)

1980s

• 1984: Soviet cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to walk in space

2000s

• 2003: 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

• Died 2003: Thomas Savage (novelist)

• 2005: A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southwestern Montana

• Died 2007: Jake (dog that searched for September 11th and Hurricane Katrina victims)