| General Information for July 25th 2016 |
| There are 4 public holidays today. |
| Day 207 of 2016 |
| 159 days left in 2016 |
| Week 30 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1940 - General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal. |
| 1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. |
| 1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths. |
| 1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali. |