Today in History
25 April
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| 1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family | ||
| 1214 Louis IX, King of France (1226-70) was born | ||
| 1228 Koenraad IV, Roman Catholic German king (1237-54) was born | ||
| 1284 Edward II, King of England (1307-27) was born | ||
| 1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns | ||
| 1507 Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America | ||
| 1599 Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) was born | ||
| 1607 Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet | ||
| 1614 Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms | ||
| 1626 Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld | ||
| 1660 London Convention Parliament begins | ||
| 1660 Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II | ||
| 1678 French troops conquer Ypres | ||
| 1684 Patent granted for thimble | ||
| 1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese | ||
| 1719 Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe" | ||
| 1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand | ||
| 1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor was born | ||
| 1824 Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter was born | ||
| 1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila) was born | ||
| 1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium) was born | ||
| 1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices | ||
| 1859 Ground was broken for the Suez Canal | ||
| 1867 Tokyo was opened for international trade. | ||
| 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909) was born | ||
| 1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany | ||
| 1881 French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia | ||
| 1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna | ||
| 1897 VAA Mary, English princess was born | ||
| 1898 US declares war on Spain over Cuba | ||
| 1901 New York became the first state to require auto license plates | ||
| 1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa | ||
| 1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli | ||
| 1925 Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany | ||
| 1926 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan | ||
| 1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi | ||
| 1927 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen) | ||
| 1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind | ||
| 1933 US & Canada drop Gold Standard | ||
| 1938 The first seeing eye dog was used. | ||
| 1941 Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta | ||
| 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath | ||
| 1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates | ||
| 1945 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF | ||
| 1945 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java | ||
| 1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Neth | ||
| 1945 The last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany occured. | ||
| 1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin | ||
| 1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River | ||
| 1946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 | ||
| 1947 Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Vo–te begins | ||
| 1952 The American Bowling Congress approved the use of an automatic pinsetter. | ||
| 1953 Scientists identify DNA | ||
| 1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC) | ||
| 1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested) | ||
| 1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" went No. 1. | ||
| 1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated | ||
| 1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian govt | ||
| 1961 Premier Morse Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo | ||
| 1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit | ||
| 1961 An unmanned Mercury test rocket exploded on its launch pad. | ||
| 1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon | ||
| 1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium | ||
| 1967 Britain granted internal self-government to Swaziland | ||
| 1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington | ||
| 1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire | ||
| 1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy | ||
| 1974 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium govt | ||
| 1974 Dictator Antonio Salazar was overthrown in Portugal. | ||
| 1974 Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution) | ||
| 1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden | ||
| 1976 Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country | ||
| 1976 Portugal adopts constitution | ||
| 1978 The Phillie Phanatic made his first appearance. | ||
| 1978 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that pension plans can't require women to pay more. | ||
| 1979 Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect | ||
| 1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl. | ||
| 1983 Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election | ||
| 1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5 | ||
| 1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem | ||
| 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211 | ||
| 1990 The Hubble space telescope was placed into orbit by the shuttle Discovery. | ||
| 1992 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell | ||
| 1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader | ||
| 1994 14" of snow in Southern Calif | ||
| 1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed | ||
| 1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed | ||
| 1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns | ||
| 1994 Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnap | ||
| 1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan | ||