This Day in History for July 25 – Dylan Goes Electric and More

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1946 – Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey (More info)

1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music (More info)

1978 – Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby,” is born (More info)

1984 – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk (More info)

2000 – A Concorde supersonic passenger jet crashes just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground (More info)