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
- 1134 –The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
- 1792 –La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1804 –The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
- 1847 –The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- 1849 –The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- 1859 –British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
- 1944 –The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 1982 –Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1983 –Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
- 2005 –107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2005 –Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 2009 –Zach Daniels made his debut in professional wrestling against Jason Blackman.
- 2011 –At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
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