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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