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
- 1707 –The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1846 –Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
- 1849 –The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- 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.
- 1916 –Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- 1920 –At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class “A” League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
- 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.
- 1945 –The last German troops retreat from Finland’s soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
- 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.
- 1961 –Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1966 –The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
- 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.
- 1986 –Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 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.
- 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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