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.
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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 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
- 404 BC –Peloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
- 1644 –The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1916 –Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 1938 –U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1943 –The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
- 1981 –More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 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.
- 1988 –In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
Who were born on April 25?
- 1694 –Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
- 1933 –Jerry Leiber, American composer
- 1935 –April Ashley, English model
- 1938 –Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
- 1948 –Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
- 1955 –Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
- 1969 –Darren Woodson, American football player
- 1970 –Jason Lee, American actor
- 1975 –Jacque Jones, American baseball player
- 1976 –Tim Duncan, American basketball player
Who died on April 25?
- 1077 –Géza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
- 1660 –Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
- 1744 –Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
- 1891 –Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
- 1915 –Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
- 1978 –Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
- 1998 –Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
- 1999 –Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
- 2005 –Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
- 2006 –Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
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