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What are the important events that happened on April 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 25 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 12, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,566,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecahexagon’ day.
Taurus is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,143 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 25 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the Estado Novo regime and eventually establishes a democratic government.
- 1986 –Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
Who were born on April 25?
- 1850 –Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
- 1930 –Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
- 1970 –Jason Lee, American actor
- 1970 –Jason Wiles, American actor
- 1981 –John McFall, British sprinter
Who died on April 25?
- 1566 –Louise Labé, French poet
- 1840 –Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
- 1928 –Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 2000 –Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
- 2002 –Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
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