April 25
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April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). There are 250 days until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 32 – Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (died 69)
- 1214 – King Louis IX of France (died 1270)
- 1228 – Conrad IV of Germany (died 1254)
- 1284 – King Edward II of England (died 1327)
- 1287 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (died 1330)
- 1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (died 1658)
- 1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (died 1679)
- 1770 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (died 1850)
- 1775 – Charlotte of Spain (died 1830)
- 1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (died 1857)
- 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (died 1893) (O.S.)
- 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom (died 1878)
- 1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (died 1925)
- 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1937)
- 1897 – Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (died 1956)
- 1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
- 1900 – Gladwyn Jebb, British diplomat (died 1996)
- 1902 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (died 1964)
- 1903 – Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (died 1987)
- 1906 – William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died 1997)
- 1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (died 1965)
- 1914 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., writer (died 1948)
- 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died 1996)
- 1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (died 1995)
- 1918 – Astrid Varnay, operatic soprano (died 2006)
- 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (died 2006)
- 1923 – Albert King, American musician (died 1992)
- 1925 – Sammy Drechsel, journalist, film director, and cabaretist (died 1986)
- 1927 – Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
- 1928 – Vassar Clements, American musician
- 1928 – Cy Twombly, American painter (died 2011)
- 1930 – Paul Mazursky, film director and writer
- 1932 – Meadlowlark Lemon, American basketball player
- 1933 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (died 2011)
- 1935 – April Ashley, English model
- 1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
- 1944 – Len Goodman, British dancer
- 1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
- 1946 – Talia Shire, actress
- 1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
- 1947 – Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
- 1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French, former head of the IMF
- 1950 – Peter Jurasik, American actor
- 1952 – Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
- 1958 – Fish, Scottish singer, musician and actor
- 1963 – David Moyes, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor
- 1964 – Andy Bell, British musician (Erasure)
- 1965 – Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction)
- 1969 – Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
- 1969 – Darren Woodson, American football player
- 1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
- 1969 – Gina Torres, American actress
- 1970 – Jason Lee, American actor
- 1972 – Sofia Helin, Swedish actress
- 1976 – Tim Duncan, American basketball player
- 1976 – Rainer Schuettler, German tennis player
- 1976 – Gilberto da Silva Melo, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Felipe Massa, Brazilian racing driver
- 1981 – Anja Parson, Swedish skier
- 1982 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
- 1986 – Alexei Emelin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
[change] Deaths
- 68 – Saint Mark
- 1077 – Geza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
- 1295 – King Sancho IV of Castile (b. 1258)
- 1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet and philosopher (b. 1404)
- 1516 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
- 1566 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (b. 1499)
- 1595 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
- 1605 – Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
- 1644 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (b. 1611)
- 1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
- 1800 – William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
- 1875 – Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
- 1878 – Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
- 1928 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 1980 – Katia Mann, German writer (b. 1883)
- 1995 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (b. 1971)
- 1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
- 1999 – Lord Killanin, Irish Olympic official (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Indra Devi, Latvian-born yoga teacher (b. 1899)
- 2007 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
- 2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928)
- 2011 – Poly Styrene, British singer (b. 1957)
- 2011 – Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (b. 1917)
[change] Events
- 1134 – The name Zagreb is first mentioned in the Felician Charter.
- 1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- 1644 – Chongzhen Emperor, the last Chinese Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, commits suicide.
- 1792 – La Marseillaise, the current national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person to be executed by guillotine.
- 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives on the HMS Challenger on the coast of present-day Western Australia, which he colonises as the British Swan River colony.
- 1846 – Open conflict begins on the disputed border of Texas, beginning the Mexican-American War.
- 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops arrive in Washington, DC.
- 1898 – Spanish-American War: The US declares war on Spain.
- 1901 – New York becomes the first US State to use automobile license plates.
- 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli in present-day Turkey begins, as Australian, French, British and New Zealand forces land at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
- 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The UK declares martial law in Ireland.
- 1945 – World War II: US and Soviet forces meet in Torgau on the River Elbe, a milestone in ending the war in Europe.
- 1945 – World War II: The Nazi occupation army in Northern Italy surrenders as the Puppet Fascist regime dissolves. Benito Mussolini tries to escape.
- 1945 – The Lapland War ends.
- 1945 – Representatives of 50 countries gather in San Francisco, California, to begin UN conferences on International Organisation.
- 1959 – The St. Lawrence River seaway, linking North America's Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, opens.
- 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
- 1966 – The city of Tashkent in present-day Uzbekistan (then in the Soviet Union) is destroyed in an earthquake.
- 1974 – Start of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal; A leftist coup ends Fascist rule.
- 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula.
- 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov after she sent him a letter expressing concern over a possible nuclear war.
- 1983 – The Pioneer 10 space probe travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
- 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland.
- 1998 – Danish-born American Christian Mortensen dies aged 115. As of April 2012, he is the longest-lived man ever, after the claim of Japanese Shigechiyo Izumi is doubted.
- 2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end.
- 2005 – The Amagasaki rail crash in Japan kills 107 people.
- 2005 – After being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937, the final part of the obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia.
- 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign a treaty allowing them to join the EU on January 1, 2007.
- 2007 – The funeral of Boris Yeltsin takes place.
- 2009 – The Left-Green Movement wins Iceland's parliamentary election, confirming Johanna Sigurdardottir as Prime Minister.
[change] Observances
- ANZAC Day
- DNA Day
- World Malaria Day
- Flag Day (Faroe Islands)
- Liberation Day (Italy)
- Freedom Day (Portugal)
- Army Day (North Korea)
- Latest date for Easter (March 22 is the earliest), last occurred on this date in 1943 and will next do so in 2038
