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.
- 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.
- 1847 –The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- 1901 –New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- 1916 –Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 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.
- 1938 –U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 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.
- 1959 –The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 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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