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
- 1607 –Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- 1644 –The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1916 –Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- 1943 –The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
- 1945 –Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
- 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.
- 1960 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 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.
- 1966 –The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
- 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.
- 2005 –Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 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.
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