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 115th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 12, 2017 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,493,078,400 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 ‘hectadecapentagon’ 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 300 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 1,586 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 25 Historical Events
- 1847 –The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- 1939 –DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
- 1945 –Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
- 1945 –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 tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
- 1960 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 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.
- 1988 –In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 2003 –The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
- 2011 –At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
Who were born on April 25?
- 1214 –King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
- 1228 –King Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
- 1599 –Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1658)
- 1898 –Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1913 –Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer in World War II (d. 1944)
- 1944 –Len Goodman, English dancer
- 1946 –Talia Shire, American actress
- 1974 –Dean Phoenix American gay pornographic actor
- 1975 –Jacque Jones, American baseball player
- 1996 –Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress
Who died on April 25?
- 1744 –Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
- 1840 –Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
- 1923 –Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian politician (b. 1840)
- 1992 –Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
- 1995 –Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
- 2003 –Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
- 2004 –Thom Gunn, English poet (b. 1929)
- 2005 –Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
- 2008 –Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician and broadcaster (b. 1921)
- 2010 –Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne (b. 1935)
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