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- 1944 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
- 1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
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- 1965 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, the beginning of folk-rock
- 1975 Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban's musical "A Chorus Line", opens at the Shubert Theatre, NYC; for record setting longest-running Broadway show run of 6,137 performances, and 10 Tony Award wins
Jul 25 in Sport
- 1999 86th Tour de France: Lance Armstrong wins 1st of 7 consecutive Tour de France titles but is later disqualified for drug cheating
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Ajinomoto Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process for manufacturing it.
Fun Fact About July 25
Sperm counts have halved in last 40 years says research published in "Human Reproduction Update" journal
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