Today in History: July 25, Tuskegee Syphilis Study exposed

Today in HistoryToday is Saturday, July 25, the 206th day of 2026. There are 159 days left in the year.Today in History:On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease.Also on this date:In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.In 1898, U.S. military forces landed in Guánica, Puerto Rico, during the Spanish-American War; Puerto Rico would become a self-governing U.S. commonweal