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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 12, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 484,872 hours 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 ‘hectadecapentagon’ day.
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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 298 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 4,508 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 25 Historical Events
- 404 BC –Peloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
- 1859 –British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1938 –U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1959 –The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
- 1961 –Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1974 –Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the Estado Novo regime and eventually establishes a democratic government.
- 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.
- 1983 –Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
Who were born on April 25?
- 1228 –King Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
- 1850 –Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
- 1897 –Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
- 1923 –Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006)
- 1927 –Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
- 1952 –Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1959 –Dominique Blanc, French actress
- 1976 –Tim Duncan, American basketball player
- 1982 –Brian Barton, American baseball player
- 1990 –Taylor Walker, Australian Rules football player
Who died on April 25?
- 1840 –Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
- 1937 –Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
- 1944 –Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
- 2002 –Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician (b. 1921)
- 2004 –Thom Gunn, English poet (b. 1929)
- 2005 –Hasil Adkins, Appalachian country, rock and roll, and blues musician (b. 1937)
- 2005 –Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
- 2006 –Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
- 2007 –Bobby “Boris” Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2008 –Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician and broadcaster (b. 1921)
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