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
- 1792 –La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1792 –Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- 1804 –The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
- 1829 –Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
- 1846 –Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Battle of Marks’ Mills.
- 1916 –Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 1938 –U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1944 –The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 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 –Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
- 1960 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
- 1974 –Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the Estado Novo regime and eventually establishes a democratic government.
- 1982 –Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 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.
- 2005 –Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 2005 –The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
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