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 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 12, 2016 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,461,542,400 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.
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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 278 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 1,221 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 25 Historical Events
- 1134 –The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
- 1849 –The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- 1901 –New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- 1920 –At 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.
- 1938 –U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 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.
- 1981 –More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 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.
- 1986 –Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 2003 –The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
Who were born on April 25?
- 1851 –Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. “Clarín”, Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
- 1906 –William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
- 1909 –William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
- 1927 –Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
- 1930 –Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
- 1941 –Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
- 1942 –Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona
- 1950 –Steve Ferrone, English drummer
- 1966 –Diego Domínguez, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
- 1981 –John McFall, British sprinter
Who died on April 25?
- 1595 –Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
- 1840 –Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
- 1878 –Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
- 1972 –George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
- 1973 –Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (b. 1896)
- 1982 –John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
- 1983 –William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest (b. 1897)
- 1998 –Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
- 2002 –Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
- 2004 –Thom Gunn, English poet (b. 1929)
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