About April 25
April 25, 2025 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.
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Taurus is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 25
- 404 BC –Peloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
- 1134 –The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
- 1644 –The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- 1707 –The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1792 –Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- 1846 –Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
- 1859 –British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1915 –World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
- 1944 –The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the Estado Novo regime and eventually establishes a democratic government.
- 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.
- 2003 –The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
- 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.
- 2011 –At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
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