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  • 1660 English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II
  • 1792 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier
  • 1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War
  • Anzac Cove where Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in 1915

    Gallipoli: Guts, Glory and Defeat

    1915 First landings at Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula by ANZAC forces during World War I
  • 1920 San Remo conference establishes three League of Nations mandates: a French mandate for Syria, and British mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine with effect to the terms of the Balfour Declaration
  • 1945 "Elbe Day" - US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in World War II
  • 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine
  • Magazine advert for Bell Labs' new invention, the solar battery

    First Solar Battery

    1954 Bell Labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon with about 6% efficiency
  • 1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by space shuttle Discovery
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  • 1964 11th National Film Awards (India): "Shehar Aur Sapna" wins the Golden Lotus
  • 1926 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" premieres in Milan
  • 1950 Chuck Cooper becomes the 1st African American to be drafted into the NBA (for Boston Celtics)

German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map "Universalis Cosmographia"

April 25, 1507

  • Louis IX

    1214 - 1270

  • Edward II

    1284 - 1327

  • Oliver Cromwell

    1599 - 1658

  • Guglielmo Marconi

    1874 - 1937

  • Haider al-Abadi

    73 Years Old

  • Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

    36 Years Old
More Birthdays on April 25

  • Edward R. Murrow

    1908 - 1965

  • Al Pacino

    85 Years Old

  • Hank Azaria

    61 Years Old

  • Renée Zellweger

    56 Years Old

  • HolaSoyGerman

    35 Years Old

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    1917 - 1996

  • Björn Ulvaeus

    80 Years Old

  • Johan Cruyff

    1947 - 2016

  • Christa Johnson

    67 Years Old

  • Adam Silver

    63 Years Old

  • Tim Duncan

    49 Years Old

  • Anna Stöhr

    37 Years Old

  • Michael van Gerwen

    36 Years Old

First submerged circumnavigation of Earth is completed by the USS submarine Triton in 60 days and 21 hours

April 25, 1960

  • 1972 Comedic actor Bob Denver (37) weds third wife Carole Abrahams
  • 1973 Singer and actor Dean Martin marries third wife Catherine Hawn (divorced 1976)
  • 1981 American political activist Maureen Reagan (40) weds third and final husband, American public relations CEO Dennis Revell (28), until her death in 2001
  • 1991 American fashion designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce from Kohie Yohannan (23)
  • 2012 Comedian and actor Martin Lawrence (47) files for divorce from Shamicka Gibbs due to irreconcilable differences after 1.5 years of marriage
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  • Chongzhen

    1611 - 1644

  • Anders Celsius

    1701 - 1744

  • Anne Bonny

    1697 - 1782

  • William Beaumont

    1785 - 1853

  • Ginger Rogers

    1911 - 1995

  • Harry Belafonte

    1927 - 2023
More April 25 Deaths
  • Konrad Kujau with his faked Hitler diaries in a Hamburg court in 1984

    Hitler's Diaries Fail Forensic Tests

    German Magazine revealed the scoop of the century on this day but it's “Hitler’s Diaries” sensation failed a forensic test and was quickly proved a hoax. April 25, 1983
  • World War I Fighter Ace The Red Baron

    Weekly Quiz for April 20 - 26

    What nationality was WWI fighter ace The Red Baron? What was Elvis Presley's 1st #1 hit record? What country is the Chernobyl nuclear power station located in?
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  • Staff and students from Shakespeare's old school in a birthday parade through the town to put flowers on his grave

    Who Wrote Shakespeare?

    April 23, 1564
  • Colonel ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (center, with glasses and holstered gun) with his ‘Rough Riders’ after victory at the Battle of San Juan Hill

    Spain Declares War Against the United States

    April 24, 1898
  • Oscar Wilde's trial as recorded in The Illustrated Police News, May 4, 1895

    Oscar Wilde Presses Self-Destruct Button

    April 26, 1895
  • Sheila Scott in the cockpit of her Piper PA-24-260B Comanche G-ATOY in 1966

    Record-Breaking Sheila, the High-Flying Aviator

    April 27, 1922
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