On July 25, various historical events are noted. In 1972, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was exposed, showing that U.S. Public Health Service allowed untreated syphilis among poor Black men. In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant became the first General of the Army. In 1943, Mussolini was arrested by King Victor Emmanuel III. The U.S. conducted its first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in 1946. In 1956, the SS Andrea Doria sank after a collision, causing 51 deaths. In 1960, Woolworth's in Greensboro desegregated its lunch counter after protests. Louise Joy Brown, the first test tube baby, was born in 1978. Rabin and Hussein ended formal war in 1994, and the Air France Concorde crashed in 2000.
In 1972, it came to light that the U.S. Public Health Service, along with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, conducted the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, allowing poor, rural Black male patients to go untreated.
In 1956, the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm, leading to the drowning of 51 people.
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