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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
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404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
NATIONAL DNA DAY
404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
1846 – The Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Glasgow Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
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1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1658)
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss Jewish-American physicist and academic, the Pauli Exclusion Principle, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1906 – William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1997)
1909 – William Pereira, American architect, designed the Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco (d. 1985)
1923 – Albert King, African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
1930 – Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1932 – Meadow "Meadowlark" Lemon III, African-American basketball player and minister (d. 2015)
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Glasgow Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1915 – World 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.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated, funding scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 39 private historically black colleges and universities.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated, funding scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 39 private historically black colleges and universities.
1945 – Liberation Day (Italy): The 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 is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.
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.
1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1975 – As 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.
1983 – U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. Pluto's orbit was inside that of Neptune at the time. On June 13, 1983 it passed Neptune's orbit and was the first ma-made probe to depart the Solar System.
1988 – In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. Since his conviction was pending appeal at the time of his death, Demjanjuk remained innocent under German law, his conviction not having undergone the appeal judgment. According to the Munich state court, Demjanjuk does not have a criminal record.
1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1972 – Vietnam 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.
1975 – As 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.
1983 – U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. Pluto's orbit was inside that of Neptune at the time. On June 13, 1983 it passed Neptune's orbit and was the first ma-made probe to depart the Solar System.
1988 – In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. Since his conviction was pending appeal at the time of his death, Demjanjuk remained innocent under German law, his conviction not having undergone the appeal judgment. According to the Munich state court, Demjanjuk does not have a criminal record.
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.
2015 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
2015 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
2015 – Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
BORN TODAY
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1658)
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss Jewish-American physicist and academic, the Pauli Exclusion Principle, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1906 – William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1997)
1909 – William Pereira, American architect, designed the Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco (d. 1985)
1923 – Albert King, African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
1930 – Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1932 – Meadow "Meadowlark" Lemon III, African-American basketball player and minister (d. 2015)
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