About April 25
April 25, 2024 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.
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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 279 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 25
- 1607 –Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- 1792 –Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- 1849 –The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Battle of Marks’ Mills.
- 1901 –New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- 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.
- 1916 –Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 1916 –Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- 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 –Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1982 –Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1983 –Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
- 1986 –Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 2005 –107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2005 –The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
- 2007 –Boris Yeltsin’s funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
- 2009 –Zach Daniels made his debut in professional wrestling against Jason Blackman.
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