On this day in History - Apr. 25

• 0032 - Marcus Salvius Otho was born (d. 0069). Roman Emperor.
• 0068 – Saint Mark dies. The first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa.
• 1185 - Emperor Antoku of Japan dies (b. 1178).
• 1214 - Louis IX was born (d. 1270). King of France (1226-70).
• 1228 - Conrad IV of Germany was born (d. 1254).
• 1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester dies. English crusader.
• 1284 - King Edward II of England was born (d. 1327).
• 1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March was born (d. 1330). De facto ruler of England.
• 1295 - King Sancho IV of Castile dies.
• 1472 - Leon Battista Alberti dies (b. 1404). Italian artist, poet and philosopher.
• 1502 - Georg Major was born (d. 1574). German Protestant theologian.
• 1516 - John Yonge dies (b. 1467). English diplomat.
• 1545 - Yi Sun Shin was born (d. 1598). Korean admiral.
• 1566 - Diane de Poitiers dies (b. 1499).Mistress of King Henry II of France.
• 1566 - Louise Labé dies. French poet.
• 1590 - The Sultan of Morocco launched his successful attack to capture Timbuktu.
• 1595 - Torquato Tasso dies (b. 1544). Italian poet.
• 1599 - Oliver Cromwell was born (d. 1658). English statesman.
• 1605 - Naresuan dies (b. 1555). King of Siam.
• 1607 - Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
• 1608 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans was born (d. 1660). French politician.
• 1614 - Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms.
• 1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery was born (d. 1679). British soldier, statesman, and dramatist.
• 1644 - Chongzhen Emperor dies (b. 1611). Emperor of China.
• 1660 - Henry Hammond dies (b. 1605). English churchman.
• 1690 - David Teniers the Younger dies (b. 1610). Flemish artist.
• 1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington was born (d. 1753). English architect.
• 1707 - The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• 1710 - James Ferguson was born (d. 1776). Scottish astronomer.
• 1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published.
• 1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel was born. British admiral.
• 1740 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, dies (b. 1699). Outstanding General and Peshwa.
• 1744 - Anders Celsius dies (b. 1701). Swedish astronomer.
• 1767 - Nicolas Oudinot was born (d. 1847). French marshal.
• 1770 - Georg Sverdrup was born (d. 1850). Norwegian philologist.
• 1770 – Jean-Antoine Nollet dies (b. 1700). French abbot and physicist.
• 1775 - Carlota Joaquina de Bourbon was born (d. 1830). Portuguese Queen consort of Portugal.
• 1776 - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was born (d. 1857).
• 1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
• 1792 - "La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed.
• 1800 - William Cowper dies (b. 1731). English poet.
• 1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
• 1831 - The Lion of the West, a play celebrating Davy Crockett, opens in New York City.
• 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born (d. 1893). Russian composer.
• 1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson dies (b. 1781). French mathematician.
• 1843 - Alice of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1878). Grand Duchess of Hesse.
• 1843 - Edward Drummond dies. British civil servant.
• 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.
• 1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
• 1849 - Felix Klein was born (d. 1925). German mathematician.
• 1851 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", was born (d. 1901). Spanish novelist.
• 1852 - Manuel António Álvares de Azevedo dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 12 Sep. 1831). Brazilian poet and writer.
• 1859 - British and French engineers broke ground for the Suez Canal.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mark's Mills - Confederate forces seize a Union wagon supply train on its way to Camden, Arkansas forcing Union General Frederick Steele to withdraw his troops to Little Rock, Arkansas.
• 1868 - John Bevins Moisant was born (d. 1910). American aviator.
  
• 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi was born (d. 1937). Inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
• 1878 - Anna Sewell dies (b. 1820). English author.
• 1881 - Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.
• 1882 - French commander Henri Riviere seized the citadel of Hanoi in Indochina.
• 1891 – Nathaniel Woodard dies (b. 1811). English educationalist.
• 1892 – Henri Duveyrier dies (b. 1840). French explorer.
• 1897 - Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood was born (d. 1965).
• 1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21.
• 1898 - Fred Haney was born (d. 1977). Baseball player.
• 1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was born (d. 1958). Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics - 1945.
• 1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
• 1902 - Werner Heyde was born (d. 1964). German psychiatrist.
• 1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov was born (d. 1987). Russian mathematician.
• 1905 - George Nepia was born (d. 1986). New Zealand rugby player.
  
• 1906 - William J. Brennan was born (d. 1997). Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1908 - Edward R. Murrow was born (d. 1965). American journalist.
• 1909 - William Pereira was born (d. 1985). American architect.
• 1911 - Emilio Salgari dies (b. 1862). Italian novelist.
• 1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr. was born (d. 1948). American writer.
• 1915 - The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
• 1915 - Frederick William Seward dies (b. 1830). United States Assistant Secretary of State.
• 1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland (lasts until April 29 - the end of the rebellion).
• 1916 - ANZAC Day commemorated for the first time.
• 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald was born (d. 15 Jun 1996). American jazz singer. Grammy Award-winning singer: Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home, Mack the Knife, A-Tisket, A-Tasket;
• 1918 – Astrid Varnay was born (d. 2006). Swedish-born soprano.
• 1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs was born (d. 1995). French astronomer.
• 1921 – Karel Appel was born (d. 2006). Dutch painter.
• 1923 - Albert King was born. American guitarist and singer.
• 1923 – Melissa Hayden was born (d. 2006). American ballerina.
• 1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon dies (b. 1840). Quebec politician.
• 1925 – Kay E. Kuter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1925 - Sammy Drechsel was born (d. 1986). German journalist, film director and cabaretist.
• 1926 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner was born (d. 2008). Austrian politician.
• 1926 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Reza Pahlavi".
• 1927 - Albert Uderzo was born. French cartoonist.
• 1927 – Corín Tellado was born (d. 2009). Spanish romance novelist.
• 1928 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel dies (b. 1878). Russian counter-revolutionary.
• 1929 - José Angel Valente was born. Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza).
• 1929 – Yvette Williams was born. First New Zealander to go to Olympics.
• 1930 - Paul Mazursky was born. American film director and writer (Harry and Tonto, An Unmarried Woman, Scenes from a Mall, The Pickle, Moscow on the Hudson, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Tempest)
• 1931 - Felix Berezin was born (d. 1980). Russian mathematician.
• 1932 - Meadlowlark Lemon was born. American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters.
• 1932 – William Roache was born. British television actor (Coronation Street).
• 1933 - Jerry Leiber was born. American composer.
• 1933 - J. Anthony Lukas was born (d. 5 Jun 1997). Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families.
• 1933 - US & Canada drop Gold Standard.
• 1934 - Peter McParland was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1935 - Fire claimed the second capitol building in Salem, Oregon and burned down.
• 1935 – April Ashley was born. English model.
• 1937 - Michał Drzymała dies (b. 1857). Famous Polish peasant fighting with German bureaucracy
• 1938 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
• 1938 – Ton Schulten was born. Dutch artist.
• 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.
• 1939 - Ted Kooser was born. American poet and US Poet Laureate.
• 1940 - The Faroese flag Merkið is made the official flag for the Faroe Islands.
• 1940 - Al Pacino was born. Academy Award-winning actor: Scent of a Woman [1992]; Scarface, Serpico, The Godfather, Dick Tracy; Tony Award-winning actor: Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie [1969], The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel [1977].
• 1941 – Bertrand Tavernier was born. French director, screenwriter and actor.
• 1941 – Princess Muna al-Hussein of Jordan was born.
• 1942 – Jon Kyl was born. American politician, junior senator of Arizona.
• 1942 – Katsuji Adachi was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1942 - Manuel Freire was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1943 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket was instituted.
• 1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko dies (b. 1858). Russian theatre director.
• 1944 - The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
• 1944 - Tony Mullane dies (b. 1859). Irish-born American baseball player.
• 1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Russian 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 - Nazi occupation army leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement. This day is taken as symbol of Liberation of Italy.
• 1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations. Conference on International Organizations.
• 1945 - The U.S. Army blows the swastika from the top of the Zeppelintribüne.
• 1945 - Björn Ulvaeus was born. Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA).
• 1945 - Stu Cook was born. American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival).
• 1946 - Talia Shire was born. American actress.
• 1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky was born. Russian politician.
• 1946 - Talia Shire was born. American actress.
• 1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky was born. Russian politician.
• 1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Johann Cruyff was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1948 – Yu Shyi-kun was born. Former Premier of Taiwan.
• 1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn was born. French economist, lawyer, and politician.
• 1949 – James Fenton was born. British poet.
• 1949 - Vicente Pernía was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1950 – Peter Jurasik was born. American actor.
• 1950 - Steve Ferrone was born. British drummer.
• 1951 – Ian McCartney was born. British Member of Parliament.
• 1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad was born. Norwegian pianist.
• 1952 – Vladislav Tretiak was born. Soviet ice hockey player.
• 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.
• 1953 – Ron Clements was born. American animation director.
• 1955 – Américo Gallego was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1955 – Christopher Tyng was born. American composer.
• 1955 – Parviz Parastui was born. Iranian actor.
• 1956 - Jaroslava Schallerová was born. Hungarian actress.
• 1958 - Fish was born. Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion).
• 1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
• 1959 – Dominique Blanc was born. French actress.
• 1960 - Bruce Redman was born. Australian film producer.
• 1960 - Mário Laginha was born. Portuguese pianist and composer.
• 1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
• 1961 – Dinesh D'Souza was born. American author.
• 1963 – David Moyes was born. Everton Football Club manager.
• 1964 - Andy Bell was born. British singer and songwriter (band Erasure).
• 1964 – Hank Azaria was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Wisit Sasanatieng was born. Thai film director.
• 1965 - Eric Avery was born. American musician (Jane's Addiction).
• 1965 - Simon Fowler was born. English musician (Ocean Colour Scene).
• 1966 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
• 1966 - James Stacy Barbour was born. American actor and singer.
• 1966 - Isabelle Pasco France was born. Actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue).
• 1968 - John Tewksbury dies (b. 1876). American athlete.
• 1969 - Joe Buck was born. American sports broadcaster.
• 1969 - Darren Woodson was born. American football player.
• 1969 - Gina Torres was born. American actress.
• 1969 – Joe Buck was born. American sports broadcaster.
• 1969 – Renée Zellweger was born. American actress.
• 1970 - Jason Lee was born. American actor.
• 1970 – Jason Wiles was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Tionne Watkins was born. American singer (TLC).
• 1971 - The country of Bangladesh was established.
• 1971 – Tomoko Kawakami was born. Japanese Seiyuu (voice actress).
• 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.
• 1972 – Sara Baras was born. Spanish ballerina.
• 1972 - George Sanders dies (b. 1906). British actor.
• 1973 - Fredrik Larzon was born. Swedish drummer (Millencolin).
• 1974 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy after more than forty years as a corporate fascist state.
• 1974 – Dean Phoenix was born. American gay pornographic actor.
• 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.
• 1975 - 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao.
• 1975 - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal.
• 1975 - Chris Lilley was born. Australian actor, comedian, and writer.
• 1975 - Emily Bergl was born. English-American actress.
• 1975 - Mike Brant dies (b. 1947). Israeli singer.
• 1976 - Portugal adopts constitution.
• 1976 - Tim Duncan was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 - Rainer Schuettler was born. German tennis player.
• 1976 - Gilberto was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1976 - Carol Reed dies (b. 1906). British film producer and director.
• 1977 - Constantinos Christoforou was born. Cypriot singer.
• 1977 – Ilias Kotsios was born. Greek footballer.
• 1977 – Kim Jong Kook was born. South Korean singer.
• 1977 - Marguerite Moreau was born in Riverside, California. American actress.
• 1977 - Matthew West was born. American Christian singer.
• 1977 – Paavo Siljamäki was born. Finnish musician.
• 1978 - Letícia Birkheuer was born. Brazilian model.
• 1978 – Matt Walker was born. British Paralympic swimmer.
• 1978 – Lee Kim Lai dies (b. 1960). Singaporean police officer.
• 1980 - A commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops were killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
• 1980 - Alejandro Valverde was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1980 – Bruce Martin was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 1980 – Kazuhito Tadano was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1980 - Katia Mann dies (b. 1883). Wife of German writer Thomas Mann.
• 1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
• 1981 - Anja Pärson was born. Swedish skier.
• 1981 – Dwone Hicks was born. American football player.
• 1981 – Felipe Massa was born. Brazilian Formula One driver.
• 1981 – John McFall was born. British Paralympic sprinter.
• 1982 - Captured in 1967, the Sinai peninsula was returned by Israel to Egypt, as part of the 1979 Camp David Accords.
• 1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
• 1982 – Brian Barton was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Monty Panesar was born. English cricketer.
• 1982 - John Cardinal Cody dies (b. 1907). American cardinal.
• 1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
• 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.
• 1983 - Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parlamentary election.
• 1983 – DeAngelo Williams was born. American football player.
• 1983 – J.P. Howell was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 – Joanne Peh was born. Singaporean actress.
• 1984 - David Anthony Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, was found dead of a drug overdose in a hotel room.
• 1984 - Andre' Woodson was born. American football quarterback.
• 1984 – Melonie Diaz was born. American actress.
• 1984 – Robert Andino was born American baseball player.
• 1985 - Giedo van der Garde was born. Dutch racing driver.
• 1986 - Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
• 1987 – Johann Smith was born. American soccer player.
• 1988 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused of being a notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible" by survivors.
• 1988 - Sara Paxton was born. Emmy Award-nominated American actress and singer. See photo here
• 1988 - James Sheppard was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1988 - Lygia Clark dies (b. 1920). Brazilian sculptor and painter.
• 1988 – Valerie Solanas dies (b. 1936). American radical feminist.
• 1989 - James Richardson is freed from a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children.
• 1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was born. 11th Panchen Lama.
• 1989 - Michael van Gerwen was born. Dutch darts player.
• 1989 - Robbie Tarrant was born. Australian football player.
• 1990 - Space Shuttle program: STS-31 - Astronauts aboard the Discovery deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1990 - 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black and Kathy Mattea win.
• 1990 - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's president.
• 1990 - Dexter Gordon dies (b. 1923). American saxophonist.
• 1992 – Yutaka Ozaki dies (b. 1965). Japanese singer-songwriter.
• 1993 - 300,000 homosexuals march on Washington, DC demanding freedom from discrimination.
• 1993 - Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader.
• 1994 - King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns.
• 1995 - Art Fleming dies (b. 1925). American game show host.
• 1995 - Ginger Rogers dies (b. 1911). American actress and dancer.
• 1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm was born. American actress.
• 1996 - Saul Bass dies (b. 1920). American graphics designer.
• 1998 - Morris Wright dies (b. 1910). American writer.
• 1999 – Larry Troutman dies (b. 1944). American musician.
• 1999 - Lord Killanin dies (b. 1914). Former IOC president.
• 1999 – Roger Troutman dies (b. 1951). American musician.
• 2000 - David Merrick dies (b. 1911). American theatrical producer.
• 2000 - Lucien le Cam dies (b. 1924). French mathematician.
• 2001 - Michele Alboreto dies (b. 1956). Italian racing driver.
• 2002 – Athanasios Papoulis dies (b. 1921). Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.
• 2002 - Indra Devi dies (b. 1899). Yoga teacher.
• 2002 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes dies (b. 1971). American rapper (TLC).
• 2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.
• 2003 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to four years in prison for her conviction on fraud and theft charges. She was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft of money from a women's political league.
• 2003 – Samson Kitur dies (b. 1966). Kenyan athlete.
• 2004 - Thom Gunn dies (b. 1929). British poet.
• 2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
• 2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union.
• 2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
• 2005 - Swami Ranganathananda dies (b. 1908). Indian monk.
• 2006 - Jane Jacobs dies (b. 1916). American-born Canadian urbanist.
• 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.
• 2007 - Alan Ball dies (b. 1945). English footballer.
• 2007 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett dies (b. 1938). American singer and songwriter.
• 2007 - Arthur Milton dies (b. 1928). English footballer and cricketer.
• 2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton dies (b. 1921). English jazz musician and broadcaster.
• ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand).
• Carnation Revolution commemorated in Portugal (National Holiday).
• Swaziland - National Flag Day.
• Faroe Islands - National Flag Day.
• Festa della Liberazione, (Italy), annual commemoration to mark the liberation of Italy at the end of the Second World War.
• Malaria Awareness Day.
• Roman Empire - Robigalia in honor of Robigus.
• Egypt - Sinai's Liberation Day.
• Official Red Hat Society day.
• Brazil: Accountant Day / Brasil: Dia do Contabilista