What happened this day in history April 25

What are the important events that happened on April 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 25 is the 116th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 12, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,714,003,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecahexagon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 279 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,143 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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April 25 Historical Events

  • 1644
    The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
  • 1792
    La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
  • 1862
    American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • 1938
    U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
  • 1945
    Elbe 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.
  • 1945
    Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
  • 1945
    The last German troops retreat from Finland’s soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1988
    In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

Who were born on April 25?

  • 1770
    Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
  • 1873
    Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956)
  • 1874
    Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
  • 1897
    Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
  • 1927
    Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
  • 1934
    Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
  • 1940
    Al Pacino, American actor
  • 1969
    Darren Woodson, American football player
  • 1971
    Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress
  • 1980
    Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer

Who died on April 25?

  • 1265
    Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
  • 1516
    John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
  • 1566
    Louise Labé, French poet
  • 1605
    Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
  • 1644
    Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)
  • 1983
    William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest (b. 1897)
  • 1992
    Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
  • 1995
    Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
  • 2000
    Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
  • 2003
    Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)

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