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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 12, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,092,320 minutes 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 298 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 4,508 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1901 –New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- 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.
- 1961 –Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1965 –Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
- 1983 –Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
- 2005 –107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2005 –Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
Who were born on April 25?
- 1608 –Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
- 1725 –Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1786)
- 1849 –Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1913 –Earl Bostic, American musician (d. 1965)
- 1918 –Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
- 1946 –Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
- 1966 –Diego Domínguez, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
- 1971 –Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress
- 1985 –Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter
- 1996 –Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress
Who died on April 25?
- 1077 –Géza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
- 1566 –Louise Labé, French poet
- 1770 –Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
- 1800 –William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
- 1919 –Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
- 1928 –Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1978 –Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
- 1980 –Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
- 2005 –Hasil Adkins, Appalachian country, rock and roll, and blues musician (b. 1937)
- 2010 –Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne (b. 1935)
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