What happened on April 25? There are more than 270 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 25
April 25 is the 116th day of the year 2024. There are 250 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 17th week of the year 2024.
On this day in San Jose, California 95121 sunrise occured at 06:16 AM and sunset occured at 07:53 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Taurus. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 279 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 25
- 404 BCPeloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
- 1134The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
- 1607Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- 1644The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- 1707The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1792La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1792Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- 1804The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
- 1829Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
- 1846Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
- 1847The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- 1849The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- 1859British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1861American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1862American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1864American Civil War: The Battle of Marks’ Mills.
- 1898Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1901New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- 1915World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
- 1916Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 1916Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- 1920At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class “A” League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
- 1938U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1939DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
- 1943The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
- 1944The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 1945Elbe Day: United States and Soviet 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.
- 1945Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
- 1945The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
- 1945The last German troops retreat from Finland’s soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
- 1953Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
- 1959The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
- 1960The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1961Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1965Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
- 1966The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
- 1972Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
- 1974Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the Estado Novo regime and eventually establishes a democratic government.
- 1975As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
- 1981More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 1982Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1983Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
- 1983American 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.
- 1986Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 1988In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 2003The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
- 2005107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2005Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 2005The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
- 2007Boris 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.
- 2009Zach Daniels made his debut in professional wrestling against Jason Blackman.
- 2011At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
Who Were Born On April 25?
- 1214King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
- 1228King Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
- 1284King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
- 1287Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
- 1502Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
- 1599Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1658)
- 1608Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
- 1621Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
- 1694Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
- 1710James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
- 1725Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1786)
- 1767Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
- 1770Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
- 1775Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
- 1776Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
- 1843Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
- 1849Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1850Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
- 1851Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. “Clarín”, Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
- 1862Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British politician (d. 1933)
- 1868John Bevins Moisant, American aviator (d. 1910)
- 1873Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956)
- 1874Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
- 1897Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
- 1898Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1900Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1902Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
- 1903Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
- 1905George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
- 1906William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
- 1908Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
- 1909William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
- 1913Earl Bostic, American musician (d. 1965)
- 1913Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer in World War II (d. 1944)
- 1914Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
- 1917Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
- 1918Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
- 1918Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
- 1921Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
- 1923Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
- 1923Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006)
- 1924Franco Mannino, Italian composer (d. 2005)
- 1925Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1925Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
- 1926Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
- 1927Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
- 1927Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
- 1929Yvette Williams, first woman New Zealander to go to Olympics
- 1930Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
- 1931Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
- 1932Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
- 1932William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
- 1933Jerry Leiber, American composer
- 1933Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 1992)
- 1934Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
- 1935April Ashley, English model
- 1938Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
- 1939Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
- 1940Al Pacino, American actor
- 1940Jochen Borchert, German politician
- 1941Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
- 1941Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
- 1942Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona
- 1942Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1944Len Goodman, English dancer
- 1945Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
- 1945Richard C. Hoagland, American conspiracy theorist
- 1945Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- 1946Talia Shire, American actress
- 1946Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
- 1947Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
- 1947Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
- 1948Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
- 1949Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
- 1949James Fenton, English poet
- 1949Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
- 1950Peter Jurasik, American actor
- 1950Steve Ferrone, English drummer
- 1951Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
- 1952Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
- 1952Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1953Ron Clements, American animation director
- 1955Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
- 1955Christopher Tyng, American composer
- 1955Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
- 1956Jaroslava Schallerová, Czech actress
- 1958Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion)
- 1959Dominique Blanc, French actress
- 1959Tony Phillips, American baseball player
- 1960Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
- 1961Dinesh D'Souza, American author
- 1963David Moyes, Everton Football Club manager
- 1964Andy Bell, English singer and songwriter (Erasure)
- 1964Hank Azaria, American actor and voice actor
- 1965Eric Avery, American musician (Jane’s Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
- 1965Mark Bryant, American basketball player
- 1965Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
- 1966Diego Domínguez, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
- 1966Erik Pappas, Greek-American baseball player
- 1966James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
- 1969Darren Woodson, American football player
- 1969Gina Torres, American actress
- 1969Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
- 1969Renée Zellweger, American actress
- 1970Jason Lee, American actor
- 1970Jason Wiles, American actor
- 1971Sara Baras, Spanish flamenco dancer
- 1971Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress
- 1973Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
- 1974Dean Phoenix American gay pornographic actor
- 1975Emily Bergl, British-American actress
- 1975Jacque Jones, American baseball player
- 1976Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
- 1976Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
- 1976Tim Duncan, American basketball player
- 1977Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
- 1977Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
- 1977Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer
- 1977Marguerite Moreau, American actress
- 1977Matthew West, American Christian singer
- 1977Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
- 1978Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
- 1978Matt Walker, British swimmer
- 1980Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
- 1980Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
- 1980Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor
- 1980Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
- 1981Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
- 1981Dwone Hicks, American football player
- 1981Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1981John McFall, British sprinter
- 1982Brian Barton, American baseball player
- 1982Marco Russo, Italian footballer
- 1982Monty Panesar, English cricketer
- 1983DeAngelo Williams, American football player
- 1983J.P. Howell, American baseball player
- 1983Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
- 1984Andre' Woodson, American football player
- 1984Melonie Diaz, American actress
- 1984Robert Andino, American baseball player
- 1985Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
- 1985Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter
- 1987Jay Park, b-boy & musician, part of Art of Movement
- 1987Johann Smith, American soccer player
- 1988James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
- 1990Taylor Walker, Australian Rules football player
- 1996Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress
Who Died On April 25?
- 68Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
- 1077Géza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
- 1265Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
- 1295King Sancho IV of Castile
- 1472Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
- 1516John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
- 1566Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
- 1566Louise Labé, French poet
- 1595Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
- 1605Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
- 1644Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)
- 1660Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
- 1690David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
- 1740Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
- 1744Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
- 1770Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
- 1800William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
- 1840Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
- 1875Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
- 1878Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
- 1891Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
- 1892Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
- 1906John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839)
- 1911Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
- 1915Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
- 1919Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
- 1923Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian politician (b. 1840)
- 1928Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1937Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
- 1943Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
- 1944George Herriman, American comic author (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
- 1944Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
- 1968Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 1972George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
- 1973Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (b. 1896)
- 1975Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
- 1976Carol Reed, English film producer and director (b. 1906)
- 1976Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886)
- 1978Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
- 1980Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
- 1982John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
- 1983William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest (b. 1897)
- 1988Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist (b. 1936)
- 1990Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
- 1992Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
- 1995Andria Balanchivadze, Georgian composer (b. 1906)
- 1995Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
- 1995Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
- 1996Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)
- 1998Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
- 1998Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
- 1999Larry Troutman, American musician (b. 1944)
- 1999Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)
- 1999Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
- 2000David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
- 2000Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
- 2001Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
- 2002Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician (b. 1921)
- 2002Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
- 2002Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
- 2003Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
- 2004Thom Gunn, English poet (b. 1929)
- 2005Hasil Adkins, Appalachian country, rock and roll, and blues musician (b. 1937)
- 2005Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
- 2006Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
- 2007Alan Ball, British footballer (b. 1945)
- 2007Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
- 2007Bobby “Boris” Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2008Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician and broadcaster (b. 1921)
- 2009Beatrice Arthur, American comedienne, actress, and singer (b. 1922)
- 2010Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne (b. 1935)
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