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
- 404 BC –Peloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
- 1804 –The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
- 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.
- 1944 –The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 1960 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1961 –Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1988 –In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 2005 –107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2005 –Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 2009 –Zach Daniels made his debut in professional wrestling against Jason Blackman.
Who were born on April 25?
- 1862 –Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British politician (d. 1933)
- 1909 –William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
- 1927 –Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
- 1947 –Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
- 1955 –Christopher Tyng, American composer
- 1956 –Jaroslava Schallerová, Czech actress
- 1959 –Tony Phillips, American baseball player
- 1970 –Jason Wiles, American actor
- 1971 –Sara Baras, Spanish flamenco dancer
- 1984 –Andre' Woodson, American football player
Who died on April 25?
- 1875 –Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
- 1995 –Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
- 1996 –Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)
- 1998 –Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
- 2000 –David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
- 2002 –Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician (b. 1921)
- 2002 –Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
- 2006 –Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
- 2007 –Alan Ball, British footballer (b. 1945)
- 2008 –Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician and broadcaster (b. 1921)
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