April 25
From Genealogy
April 25 is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of the year.
It is also the latest possible day that Easter
can occur.
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[edit] Events
- 1607
- Eighty Years' War
: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar
.
- 1707
- The Habsburg
army is defeated by Bourbon
army at Almansa
(Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession
.
- 1792 - Highwayman
Nicolas J. Pelletier
becomes the first person executed by guillotine
.
- 1792 - "La Marseillaise
" (French national anthem
) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
.
- 1829 - Charles Fremantle
arrives in the HMS Challenger
off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony
for the United Kingdom.
- 1846 - Thornton Affair
: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War
.
- 1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party
are out of the wilderness.
- 1849 - The Governor General of Canada
, Lord Elgin
, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill
, outraging Montreal
's English
population and triggering the Montreal Riots
.
- 1859 - Ground is broken for the Suez Canal
.
- 1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army
arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union
Admiral
David Farragut
capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana
.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Marks' Mills
.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War
: The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1901 - New York becomes the first U.S.
state to require automobile
license plate
s.
- 1915 - The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove
and Cape Helles
.
- 1916 - Easter Rebellion
: The United Kingdom declares martial law
in Ireland.
- 1916 - ANZAC Day
commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 1926 - Reza Khan
is crowned Shah of Iran
under the name Reza Shah Pahlavi
.
- 1926 - Giacomo Puccini
's Turandot
is performed for the first time under Arturo Toscanini
's conduction.
- 1938 - U.S. Supreme Court
delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1940 - The Faroese
flag Merkið
is made the official flag for the Faroe Islands
.
- 1943 - The Demyansk Shield
for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket
was instituted.
- 1944 - The United Negro College Fund
is incorporated.
- 1945 - Elbe Day
: United States and Russia
n troops meet in Torgau
along the River Elbe
, cutting the Wehrmacht
of Nazi Germany
in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe
.
- 1945 - The U.S. Army blows the swastika from the top of the Zeppelintribüne
.
- 1945 - General partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement
. Nazi occupation army leaves Northern Italy. This day is taken as symbol of Liberation of Italy.
- 1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco
, California to begin the United Nations
Conference on International Organizations
.
- 1953 - Francis Crick
and James D. Watson
publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix
structure of DNA.
- 1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway
, linking the North American Great Lakes
and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping
.
- 1961 - Robert Noyce
is granted a patent
for an integrated circuit
.
- 1966 - Tashkent
city was destroyed by a huge earthquake.
- 1972 - Vietnam War
: Nguyen Hue Offensive
– The North Vietnam
ese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnam
ese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum
.
- 1974 - Carnation Revolution
: A coup
in Portugal restores democracy
.
- 1975 - As North Vietnamese
forces close in on the South Vietnam
ese capital
Saigon
, the Australian Embassy
is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian
troop commitment to South Vietnam
.
- 1981
- More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant
in Tsuruga
, Japan.
- 1982 - Israel
completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula
per the Camp David Accords
.
- 1983 - American schoolgirl
Samantha Smith
is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov
after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war
.
- 1983 - Pioneer 10
travels beyond Pluto
's orbit
.
- 1986 - Mswati III
was crowned King of Swaziland
, succeeding his father Sobhuza II
.
- 1988 - In Israel
, John Demjanuk
is sentenced to death for war crime
s committed in World War II.
- 1990 - The Hubble Telescope
was deployed from Space Shuttle Discovery
into orbit.
- 1989 - James Richardson
is freed from a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children.
- 2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum
is returned to Ethiopia
after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
- 2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union
.
- 2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash
in Japan.
- 2007 - Boris Yeltsin
's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church
for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III
in 1894.
- 2007 - The Dow Jones
Industrial hit 13,000 for the first time in history, closing at 13,089.89
[edit] Births
- 32 - Marcus Salvius Otho
, Roman Emperor
(d. 69)
- 1214 - King Louis IX of France
(d. 1270)
- 1228 - Conrad IV of Germany
(d. 1254)
- 1284 - King Edward II of England
(d. 1327)
- 1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
- 1502
- Georg Major
, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574
)
- 1545
- Yi Sun Shin
, Korean admiral (d. 1598
)
- 1599
- Oliver Cromwell
, English statesman (d. 1658
)
- 1608
- Gaston, Duke of Orléans
, French politician (d. 1660
)
- 1621
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
- 1694
- Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
, English architect (d. 1753)
- 1710 - James Ferguson
, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
- 1725
- Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
, British admiral (d. 1786)
- 1767
- Nicolas Oudinot
, French marshal (d. 1847)
- 1770 - Georg Sverdrup
, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
- 1775
- Charlotte of Spain
, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
- 1849 - Felix Klein
, German mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1851 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña
, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
- 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi
, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
- 1898 - Fred Haney
, baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1902 - Werner Heyde
, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
- 1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov
, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
- 1905 - George Nepia
, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
- 1906 - William J. Brennan
, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
- 1908 - Edward R. Murrow
, American journalist (d. 1965)
- 1909
- William Pereira
, American architect (d. 1985)
- 1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
, American writer (d. 1948)
- 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald
, American singer (d. 1996)
- 1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs
, French astronomer (d. 1995)
- 1918 - Astrid Varnay
, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
- 1921 - Karel Appel
, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
- 1923 - Albert King
, American musician (d. 1992)
- 1925 - Sammy Drechsel
, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
- 1925 - Kay E. Kuter
, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Albert Uderzo
, French cartoonist
- 1930 - Paul Mazursky
, American film director and writer
- 1931 - Felix Berezin
, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
- 1932 - William Roache
, British television actor (Coronation Street
)
- 1932 - Meadowlark Lemon
, American basketball player
- 1933 - Jerry Leiber
, American composer
- 1934 - Peter McParland
, Northern Irish footballer
- 1935 - April Ashley
, English model
- 1939 - Ted Kooser
, American poet and US Poet Laureate
- 1940 - Al Pacino
, American actor
- 1941 - Bertrand Tavernier
, French director, screenwriter and actor
- 1941 - Princess Muna al-Hussein
, of Jordan
- 1942 - Jon Kyl
, American politician
- 1945 - Björn Ulvaeus
, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA
)
- 1945 - Stu Cook
, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival
)
- 1946 - Talia Shire
, American actress
- 1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky
, Russian politician
- 1947 - Johan Cruijff
, Dutch footballer
- 1947 - Jeffrey DeMunn
, American actor
- 1948 - Yu Shyi-kun
, former Premier of Taiwan
- 1949 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn
, French economist, lawyer, and politician
- 1949 - Vicente Pernía
, Argentine footballer
- 1950 - Steve Ferrone
, British drummer
- 1951 - Ian McCartney
, British Member of Parliament
- 1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad
, Norwegian pianist
- 1952 - Vladislav Tretiak
, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1955 - Parviz Parastui
, Iranian actor
- 1955 - Américo Gallego
, Argentine footballer
- 1956 - Jaroslava Schallerová
, Hungarian actress
- 1958 - Fish
, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion
)
- 1959 - Dominique Blanc
, French actress
- 1960 - Bruce Redman
, Australian film producer
- 1964 - Hank Azaria
, American actor
- 1964 - Andy Bell
, British singer and songwriter (band Erasure
)
- 1964 - Wisit Sasanatieng
, Thai film director
- 1965 - Eric Avery
, American musician (Jane's Addiction
, Deconstruction
, Polar Bear
)
- 1965 - Simon Fowler
, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene
)
- 1966 - James Stacy Barbour
, American actor and singer
- 1969 - Joe Buck
, American sports broadcaster
- 1969 - Gina Torres
, American actress
- 1969 - Darren Woodson
, American football player
- 1969 - Renée Zellweger
, American actress
- 1970 - Jason Lee
, American actor
- 1970 - Tionne Watkins
, American singer (TLC
)
- 1973 - Fredrik Larzon
, Swedish drummer (Millencolin
)
- 1975 - Emily Bergl
, English-American actress
- 1975 - Jacque Jones
, American baseball player
- 1976 - Tim Duncan
, American basketball player
- 1976 - Rainer Schüttler
, German tennis player
- 1976 - Gilberto
, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 - Constantinos Christoforou
, Cypriot singer
- 1977 - Marguerite Moreau
, American actress
- 1977 - Matthew West
, American Christian singer
- 1977 - Ilias Kotsios
, Greek footballer
- 1978 - Letícia Birkheuer
, Brazilian model
- 1980 - Alejandro Valverde
, Spanish cyclist
- 1980 - Bruce Martin
, New Zealand cricketer
- 1981
- Felipe Massa
, Brazilian Formula One
driver
- 1981 - Anja Pärson
, Swedish skier
- 1982 - Monty Panesar
, English cricketer
- 1983 - DeAngelo Williams
, American football player
- 1983 - J.P. Howell
, American baseball player
- 1984 - Andre' Woodson
, American football quarterback
- 1984 - Jen Johnson
, American reality star
- 1985 - Giedo van der Garde
, Dutch racing driver
- 1987 - Johann Smith
, American footballer
- 1988 - Sara Paxton, American actress
- 1988 - James Sheppard
, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
, 11th Panchen Lama
- 1989 - Michael van Gerwen