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April 25

It is also the latest possible day that Easter can occur, next occurring in 2038.

Events

1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1707 - The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 - La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
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.
1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 - British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1915 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins -- The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
1916 - Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
1938 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers 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.
1944 - The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 - The Nazi occupation army leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
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.
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.
1966 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 - Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal restores democracy after more than forty years as a corporate fascist state.
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.
1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
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.
1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1986 - Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1990 - The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Births

32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
1228 - Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
1502 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)
1608 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
1710 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1775 - Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
1776 - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape designer (d. 1903)
1843 - Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
1851 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
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)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1897 - Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
1898 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
1905 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
1906 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
1909 - William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
1918 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
1921 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
1923 - Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006)
1923 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
1925 - Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
1925 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
1926 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1929 - Yvette Williams First New Zealander to go to Olympics
1930 - Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1932 - William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
1932 - Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
1933 - Jerry Leiber, American composer
1934 - Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
1935 - April Ashley, English model
1938 - Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
1939 - Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
1941 - Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
1941 - Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
1942 - Jon Kyl, American politician
1942 - Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1945 - Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1946 - Talia Shire, American actress
1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
1947 - Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
1947 - Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
1948 - Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
1949 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
1949 - Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
1949 - James Fenton, British poet
1950 - Steve Ferrone, British drummer
1951 - Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player
1953 - Ron Clements, American animation director
1955 - Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
1955 - Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
1956 - Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress
1958 - Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion)
1959 - Dominique Blanc, French actress
1960 - Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
1961 - Dinesh D'Souza, American author
1964 - Hank Azaria, American actor
1964 - Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (band Erasure)
1964 - Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
1965 - Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
1966 - James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
1969 - Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
1969 - Gina Torres, American actress
1969 - Darren Woodson, American football player
1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress
1970 - Jason Lee, American actor
1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer
1971 - Tomoko Kawakami, (Voice Actress), Japanese Seiyuu
1972 - Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina
1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1975 - Emily Bergl, English-American actress
1975 - Jacque Jones, American baseball player
1975 - Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
1976 - Tim Duncan, American basketball player
1976 - Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
1976 - Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1977 - Marguerite Moreau, American actress
1977 - Matthew West, American Christian singer
1977 - Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
1977 - Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
1978 - Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
1978 - Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer
1980 - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
1980 - Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese basaball player
1981 - Dwone Hicks, National Football League runningback
1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
1981 - John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
1981 - Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
1982 - Monty Panesar, English cricketer
1982 - Brian Barton, American baseball player
1983 - DeAngelo Williams, National Football League runningback
1983 - J.P. Howell, American baseball player
1984 - Andre' Woodson, American football quarterback
1984 - Robert Andino, Baseball player
1985 - Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
1987 - Johann Smith, American soccer player
1988 - Sara Paxton, American actress
1988 - James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1989 - Robbie Tarrant, Australian football player
1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress