April 25 Historical Events
The following events took place on April 25. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 58 events. Showing 31 - 58.
- 1945Fifty nations gather in San Francisco to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
- 1945The last German troops retreat from Finland’s soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
- 1946Naperville train disaster kills 47 in Naperville, Illinois.
- 1951Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
- 1953Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” describing the double helix structure of DNA.
- 1954The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
- 1959The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
- 1960The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1961Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1965Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
- 1966The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
- 1972Vietnam 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.
- 1974Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
- 1975As 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.
- 1981More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 1982Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1983American 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.
- 1983Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
- 1986Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 1988In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 1990Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
- 2001Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
- 2005The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
- 2005Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 2005One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2007Boris 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.
- 2015Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
- 2015Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
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