This Day in History for 25th April

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 191

1185 - Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
1449 - Anti-pope Felix V resigns
1507 - Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America
1541 - -26) Liege flooded after heavy down pour
1604 - Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
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 - English Convention 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
1792 - Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
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.
1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1850 - Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
Fictional Character Robinson Crusoe 1859 - Ground broken for Suez Canal
1861 - Battle of Lavaca, TX
1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army arrives to reinforce Washington, D.C.
1862 - Battle of New Orleans LA - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans
1864 - Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
1867 - Tokyo opens for foreign trade
1875 - Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")
1876 - Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
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
1891 - Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
1896 - Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
1896 - Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares state of war on Spain effective from 21st April.
Father of Psychology Sigmund Freud 1901 - Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run
1901 - New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
1901 - In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
1902 - Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game
1904 - NY Yankee Jack Chesbro's 1st of 41 wins this year
1905 - Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Aust season (NSW v Qld)
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 a US citizen Morris Frank
1932 - Rose Franken's "Another Language," premieres in NYC
1933 - NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
Composer Giacomo Puccini 1933 - US & Canada drop Gold Standard
1941 - Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1943 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
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 - Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
1945 - Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
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
1946 - Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent," premieres in London
1947 - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1947 - Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voete begins
1949 - Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Romulus der Grosse," premieres in Basel
1949 - Michael Brown, rocker (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
1950 - Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
1950 - Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
1952 - 6th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1952 - American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
1952 - German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms
1953 - Scientists identify DNA
1954 - Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC)
1954 - British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested)
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island atmospher
1954 - WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1956 - Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
1956 - Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London
1957 - 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
1957 - Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
1957 - WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
1960 - 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
1961 - "Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 27 perfs
1961 - France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1961 - Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
1961 - Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1961 - Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1961 - Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
1962 - Cleve sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on
1962 - Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1962 - US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
1962 - US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
1962 - June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
1964 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1965 - 19th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1965 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational
1966 - Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
1966 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 253

32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 - Louis IX, King of France (1226-70)
1228 - Conrad IV, Andria Italy, King of Germany, Jerusalem and Sicily (d. 1254)
1284 - Edward II, King of England (1307-27)
1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
1502 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
1567 - Aurelio Signoretti, composer
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
1608 - Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general
1614 - Hieronymus van Beverningk, chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas
1614 - Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer
1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1666 - Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer
1677 - Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly)
1690 - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer
1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
1710 - James Ferguson, astronomer
1723 - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
1730 - Fedele Fenaroli, composer
1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
1769 - Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor
1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1776 - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
1792 - John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
1818 - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
1824 - Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter
1825 - Charles Ferdinand Dowd, US, standardized time zones
1837 - William Charles Levey, composer
1840 - James Dearing, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1841 - Pauline Lucca, soprano
1842 - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
1843 - Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium)
1851 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
1862 - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs
1867 - Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist
1868 - John Bevins Moisant, pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (D. 1910)
1869 - Karl Prohaska, composer
1871 - Sara Amsel, Indonesian/Dutch actress
1872 - Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/world record long jumper
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)
1876 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
1881 - Hans Windisch, German new testament expert
1883 - Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show)
1889 - Charles Kellaway, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder of 1920's)
1895 - Stanley Rous, British soccer official
1897 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer
1897 - VAA Mary, English princess
1898 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1900 - Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, British politician and diplomat
1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945)
1901 - Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer
1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
1903 - Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Polterabend, Matinee Idol)
1903 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
1905 - Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant
1905 - Walter Hassan, engineer
1905 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
1906 - Sally Salminen, writer
1906 - William J Brennan Jr, NJ, 92nd Supreme Court judge (1956-90) [or 8/25]
1906 - Zoltan Gardonyi, composer
1907 - Paula Trueman, NYC, actress (Gran-Billy)
1907 - Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
1908 - Edward R Murrow, Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person)
1909 - Jaroslav Doubrava, composer
1912 - Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis
1913 - Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)
1913 - Russ Conway, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye)
1914 - Claude Mauriac, writer
1914 - Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela
1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1915 - A J A Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
1915 - William Goyen, writer
Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (1917) 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News VA, jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex)
1918 - Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)
1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
1919 - Heinz Wunderlich, composer
1920 - Jean Carmet, actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic)
1920 - Marre, reformer of the bar
1921 - Jean Mogin, Belgian poet
1921 - Karel Appel, painter (Vragende Children)
1923 - Aafje J R Bouber, [Blom], actress (Traveller Without Baggage)
1923 - Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues)
1923 - Anita Bjorak, actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People)
1923 - Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer
1923 - Melissa Hayden, Toronto Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl)
1923 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
1924 - Erzsebet Szonyi, composer
1924 - Franco Mannino, composer
1925 - Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist
1925 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
1926 - Paul Walter Furst, composer
1926 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1927 - Ernst Widmer, composer
1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1929 - Jose Angel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza)
1929 - Yvette Corlett, athlete
1929 - Yvette Williams, NZ, long jumper (Oly-gold-52)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

1981 - Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
2003 - "Angel" actress Amy Acker (26) weds actor James Carpinello (27) at Hans Fahden Vineyard in Napa Valley, California
2009 - TV personality Spencer Pratt (28) weds media personality and singer Heidi Montag (25) at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

1991 - Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
2012 - Comedian and actor Martin Lawrence (47) files for divorce from Shamicka Gibbs due to irreconcilable differences after 1.5 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 121

68 - Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
974 - Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84
1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
1295 - Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/Leon, dies
1342 - Benedict XII, [Jacques Fournier], Pope (1334-42), dies
1472 - Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies
1482 - Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI), dies
1516 - John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
1566 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of French King Henry II, dies aged 66
1566 - Louise Labé, French poet
1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51
1605 - Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
1607 - Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle
1607 - Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle
1635 - Alessandro Tassoni, Ital political writer (Rape of Bucket), dies at 69
1647 - Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62
1660 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
1663 - Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53
1690 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79
1728 - John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies
1740 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
1744 - Anders Celsius, Swed astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies at 42
1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
1792 - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54
1792 - Nicolas J Pelletier, French highwayman, 1st person guillotined
1800 - William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68
1808 - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66
1822 - Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83
1828 - John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64
1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1845 - Thomas Duncan, painter, dies
Surgeon William Beaumont (1853) 1853 - William Beaumont, physiologist, dies at 67
1862 - Charles Ferguson Smith, US Union Gen-Maj, dies of infection at 55
1873 - Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43
1878 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
1891 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
1892 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
1905 - Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70
1906 - John Knowles Paine, US composer, dies at 67
1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1915 - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72
1915 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
1925 - George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81
1926 - Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76
1928 - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49
1931 - A J Y (Bert) Hopkins, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies
1937 - Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open
1937 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
1942 - Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
1943 - Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies
1944 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
1946 - Albert Knight, cricketer (3 Tests for England on 1903-04 tour), dies
1946 - Joseph Vine, cricketer (batted in two Tests Eng v Aust 1911-12), dies
1951 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47
1954 - Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies
1955 - Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
1955 - Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73
1960 - Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67
1960 - Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
1960 - Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92
1961 - Hans F Blunck, writer, dies
1966 - Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70
1968 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1969 - Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80
1970 - Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at about 55
1971 - Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80
1972 - George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65
1975 - Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1976 - Carol Reed, director (Agony & Ecstasy), dies
1976 - Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
1978 - Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
1980 - Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
1982 - Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed), dies at 73
1982 - Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
1982 - John Cody, US cardinal/archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74
1982 - Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies
1982 - William R Burnett, US, writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82
1984 - Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack
1985 - Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
1985 - Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80
1988 - Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76
1988 - Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43
1988 - Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83
1989 - George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85
1990 - Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67
1991 - Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66
1991 - Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
1992 - Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39
1992 - Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, Dutch min of traffic & water, dies at 77
1992 - Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54
1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema
1993 - Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at 85
1994 - David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
1994 - George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
1994 - Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32
1995 - Art Fleming, game show host (Jeopardy), dies at 74
1995 - Francis Henry Smith, librarian, dies at 85
1995 - Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83
1995 - Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89