Today is Wednesday, July 25, the 207th day of 2012. There are 159 days left in the year.

1593 ― France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic

1930 ― Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in the first and fourth innings vs. Cleveland

1940 ― John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River

1943 ― Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II

1944 ― First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)

1946 ― First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show

1963 ― U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear test ban treaty

1984 ― Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space

1990 ― U.S. ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute 1992 ― 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain