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Events on the 25th of April in history

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25 Apr 0404 Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
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25 Apr 0775 The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
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25 Apr 0799 After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
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25 Apr 1134 The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
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25 Apr 1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
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25 Apr 1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns
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25 Apr 1507 Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America
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25 Apr 1541 Liege flooded after heavy down pour
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25 Apr 1604 Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
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25 Apr 1607 Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
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25 Apr 1607 Battle at Gibraltar Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet
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25 Apr 1614 Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms
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25 Apr 1626 Battle at the Dessauer bridge Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld
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25 Apr 1644 The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
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25 Apr 1660 London Convention Parliament begins
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25 Apr 1660 Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II
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25 Apr 1660 London Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
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25 Apr 1678 French troops conquer Ypres
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25 Apr 1684 Patent granted for the thimble
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25 Apr 1707 A coalition of England, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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25 Apr 1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese
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25 Apr 1719 Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
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25 Apr 1719 Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
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25 Apr 1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
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25 Apr 1792 "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
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25 Apr 1792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
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25 Apr 1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
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25 Apr 1804 The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
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25 Apr 1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
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25 Apr 1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
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25 Apr 1847 The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
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25 Apr 1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
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25 Apr 1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
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25 Apr 1859 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
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25 Apr 1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
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25 Apr 1861 Battle of Lavaca, Texas
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25 Apr 1861 7th New York arrives to reinforce Washington DC
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25 Apr 1862 American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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25 Apr 1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans LA
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25 Apr 1862 Battle of New Orleans LA - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans
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25 Apr 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
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25 Apr 1864 Battle of Marks' Mill AR (Camden Expedition)
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25 Apr 1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
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25 Apr 1875 Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")
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25 Apr 1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
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25 Apr 1876 Chicago Cubs 1st National League game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st National League shutout)
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25 Apr 1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
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25 Apr 1881 French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia
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25 Apr 1882 Tonkin Campaign: French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
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25 Apr 1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
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25 Apr 1891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco
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25 Apr 1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
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25 Apr 1896 Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London
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25 Apr 1898 Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
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25 Apr 1898 US declares war on Spain over Cuba
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25 Apr 1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
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25 Apr 1901 Erve Beck hit the 1st home run in the American League
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25 Apr 1901 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of the greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
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25 Apr 1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
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25 Apr 1902 Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game
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25 Apr 1904 New York Yankee Jack Chesbro's 1st of 41 wins this year
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25 Apr 1905 Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Australia season (New South Wales vs Queensland)
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25 Apr 1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa
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25 Apr 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.
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25 Apr 1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
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25 Apr 1916 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
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25 Apr 1916 Easter Rising: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
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25 Apr 1920 At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
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25 Apr 1925 Paul von Hindenburg elected President of Germany
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25 Apr 1925 Paul von Hindenburg elected 2nd President of Germany (Adolf Hitler is 3rd)
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25 Apr 1926 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot", premieres in Milan
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25 Apr 1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi
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25 Apr 1927 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
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25 Apr 1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
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25 Apr 1932 Rose Franken's "Another Language", premieres in NYC
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25 Apr 1933 New York Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
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25 Apr 1933 US & Canada drop Gold Standard
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25 Apr 1938 U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
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25 Apr 1938 1st use of seeing eye dog
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25 Apr 1940 Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government.
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25 Apr 1941 Operation Merkur Hitler orders conquest of Kreta
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25 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
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25 Apr 1943 The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
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25 Apr 1944 The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
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25 Apr 1945 The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
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25 Apr 1945 Fifty nations gather in San Francisco to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
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25 Apr 1945 Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.
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25 Apr 1945 Elbe Day: United States and Soviet 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.
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25 Apr 1945 46 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco CA
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25 Apr 1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
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25 Apr 1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
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25 Apr 1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
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25 Apr 1945 Allied air raid on Surabaja Java
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25 Apr 1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands
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25 Apr 1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin
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25 Apr 1946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48
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25 Apr 1946 Naperville train disaster kills 47 in Naperville, Illinois.
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25 Apr 1946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville IL, killing 48
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25 Apr 1946 Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent", premieres in London
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25 Apr 1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
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25 Apr 1947 Trial against WWII mayor of Amsterdam Edward Vo
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25 Apr 1949 Friedrich D
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25 Apr 1950 Chuck Cooper becomes the 1st black to play in the NBA
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25 Apr 1950 Ambon proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
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25 Apr 1951 Korean 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.
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25 Apr 1952 6th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
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25 Apr 1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
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25 Apr 1952 German "Country" Bathe-W
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25 Apr 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.
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25 Apr 1953 Scientists identify DNA
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25 Apr 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island atmospher
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25 Apr 1954 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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25 Apr 1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (New York NY)
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25 Apr 1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects are arrested)
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25 Apr 1954 WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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25 Apr 1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
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25 Apr 1956 No
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25 Apr 1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
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25 Apr 1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
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25 Apr 1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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25 Apr 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
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25 Apr 1959 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
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25 Apr 1960 The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
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25 Apr 1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
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25 Apr 1961 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
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25 Apr 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
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25 Apr 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
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25 Apr 1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
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25 Apr 1961 "Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 27 performances
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25 Apr 1961 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
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25 Apr 1961 Premier Mo
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25 Apr 1962 Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on
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25 Apr 1962 June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
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25 Apr 1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
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25 Apr 1962 Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
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25 Apr 1962 Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
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25 Apr 1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
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25 Apr 1964 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
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25 Apr 1965 Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
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25 Apr 1965 19th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1
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25 Apr 1965 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational
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25 Apr 1966 The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
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25 Apr 1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
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25 Apr 1967 Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland
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25 Apr 1967 Abortion legalized in Colorado
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25 Apr 1967 Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders", premieres in NYC
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25 Apr 1968 "Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 512 performances
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25 Apr 1969 BBC Radio serial "Dales" 5,400th and last episode
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25 Apr 1969 5,400th and last radio broadcast of "Mrs Dale's Diary" on BBC Radio
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25 Apr 1970 "Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
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25 Apr 1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
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25 Apr 1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
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25 Apr 1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
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25 Apr 1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
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25 Apr 1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
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25 Apr 1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington DC
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25 Apr 1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
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25 Apr 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.
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25 Apr 1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
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25 Apr 1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 Apr 1974 Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution)
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25 Apr 1974 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
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25 Apr 1974 NFL moves the goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
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25 Apr 1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt Secretary G
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25 Apr 1974 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government
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25 Apr 1974 Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal; he is exiled to Madeira and later to Brazil (Carnation revolution)
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25 Apr 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.
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25 Apr 1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
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25 Apr 1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
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25 Apr 1975 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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25 Apr 1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
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25 Apr 1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire
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25 Apr 1976 Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
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25 Apr 1976 India all out for 97 vs West Indies
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25 Apr 1976 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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25 Apr 1976 Portugal adopts constitution
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25 Apr 1977 Cincinnati Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Atlanta Braves 23-9
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25 Apr 1978 Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
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25 Apr 1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
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25 Apr 1979 "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres
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25 Apr 1979 Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect
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25 Apr 1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
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25 Apr 1980 Oakland A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
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25 Apr 1981 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
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25 Apr 1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
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25 Apr 1981 Seattle Mariners manager Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot
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25 Apr 1982 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
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25 Apr 1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
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25 Apr 1982 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 Apr 1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orlando Lady Golf Classic
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25 Apr 1982 Yankees fire manager Bob Lemon & replaces him with Gene Michael
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25 Apr 1983 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
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25 Apr 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.
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25 Apr 1983 "Nightline" expands from
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25 Apr 1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR
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25 Apr 1983 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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25 Apr 1984 Rock group Wings disbands
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25 Apr 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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25 Apr 1985 Flyers 2-Isles 6 - Patrick Division Finals - Flyers hold 3-1 lead
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25 Apr 1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
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25 Apr 1985 Philadelphia Flyers 2-New York Islanders 6-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
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25 Apr 1985 Roger Miller's musical "Big River", premieres at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances
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25 Apr 1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
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25 Apr 1986 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
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25 Apr 1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
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25 Apr 1988 "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
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25 Apr 1988 In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
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25 Apr 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211
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25 Apr 1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem
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25 Apr 1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York
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25 Apr 1989 Penguin Mario Lemieux ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st period
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25 Apr 1990 Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
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25 Apr 1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
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25 Apr 1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's President
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25 Apr 1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win
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25 Apr 1991 "Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 1018 performances
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25 Apr 1991 Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
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25 Apr 1991 Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL New England Patriots for sexual harassment
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25 Apr 1991 Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical "The Secret Garden" premieres in NYC
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25 Apr 1992 "Shimada" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
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25 Apr 1992 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell
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25 Apr 1993 "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances
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25 Apr 1993 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader
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25 Apr 1993 Willy Russell's "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances
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25 Apr 1994 14" of snow in Southern California
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25 Apr 1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
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25 Apr 1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
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25 Apr 1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
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25 Apr 1994 Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnapped
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25 Apr 1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
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25 Apr 1995 "Month in the Country" opens at Roundabout Theater NYC for 79 performances
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25 Apr 1995 16th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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25 Apr 1996 "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk, " opens at Ambassador Theater, New York City
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25 Apr 1996 "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk", opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
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25 Apr 1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 250th homerun
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25 Apr 2001 Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
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25 Apr 2005 One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
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25 Apr 2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
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25 Apr 2005 The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
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25 Apr 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.
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25 Apr 2015 Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
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25 Apr 2015 More than 8,800 killed in massive Nepal earthquake.
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