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History on the 25th of April

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25 Apr 1530 RELIGIOUS The Augsburg Confession was read publicly at the Diet of Worms. Written principally by Philip Melanchthon, the document comprised the first official summary of the Lutheran faith.
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25 Apr 1792 RELIGIOUS Birth of John Keble, English clergyman and poet. Credited with having founded the Oxford Movement in 1833, Keble also authored the hymn, "Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear" (1820).
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25 Apr 1800 RELIGIOUS Death of William Cowper, 69, English poet. A lifelong victim of depression, Cowper nevertheless left a great spiritual literary legacy, including three enduring hymns: "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" and "There is a Fountain."
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25 Apr 1915 WW1 Begin of Landings at Helles & Anzac Cove
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25 Apr 1918 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen shot down a British H12B flying boat. 
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25 Apr 1919 WW2 Douglas MacArthur arrived in New York, New York, United States via ocean liner Leviathan. 
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25 Apr 1920 WW2 Four Polish armies under the command of Marshal Pilsudski marched into the Ukraine. 
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25 Apr 1929 WW2 Haguro was commissioned into service. 
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25 Apr 1929 RELIGIOUS The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America was organized in Detroit, partly in response to the insurgence of Communism in Eastern Europe. Previously, its parishes were under jurisdiction of the Patriarchate in Bucharest, Hungary.
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25 Apr 1930 WW2 Hikawa Maru was commissioned into service. 
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25 Apr 1930 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan on her maiden voyage. 
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25 Apr 1932 WW2 Oswald Mosley's son Michael Mosley was born. 
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25 Apr 1933 WW2 Hitler appointed a prominent German Christian, Ludwig Müller (a former Army chaplain and an enthusiastic National Socialist), as his representative in the drawing up of a new constitution for a unified Reich church. 
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25 Apr 1935 WW2 Prince Nagahisa married Sachiko Tokugawa. 
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25 Apr 1936 WW2 The French Potez 630 aircraft took its first flight. It would be ultimately be developed into a successful range of fighters, bomber and reconnaissance aircraft seeing much service in German, Vichy and Free French air arms. 
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25 Apr 1939 WW2 The Chinese counter offensive toward Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China reached the outskirts of the city. 
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25 Apr 1940 WW2 A new evacuation scheme was introduced in Britain as a Ministry of Health survey showed that only 8% of eligible children had been registered. Later studies revealed that 19% of parents refused to register their children, while 73% of them simply did not respond to the registration. 
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25 Apr 1940 WW2 3,000 troops of the British 15th Brigade were engaged by 8,500 troops of the German 196th Division at the village of Kvam in Norway, 55 kilometers south of Dombås; despite German numerical advantage and being supported by dive bombers, the British troops held ground and stopped the German advance. Elsewhere, a group of RAF Gladiator aircraft operating on the frozen Lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Norway was discovered by the Germans. German aircraft bombed the rough airfield on and off for eight hours, destroying 13 aircraft on the ground. Three German He 111 bombers were shot down by RAF aircraft. By the end of the day, Squadron Leader Donaldson ordered the position to be abandoned; the 5 surviving Gladiator aircraft were to be withdrawn to Stetnesmoen. 
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25 Apr 1940 WW2 An Irish Republican Army land mine killed 6 in Dublin, Ireland. 
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25 Apr 1940 WW2 US President Roosevelt announced that the United States recognized the state of war between Germany and Norway, and reaffirmed American neutrality in that conflict. To that end, he specifically forbade Norwegian submarines from entering American territorial waters. 
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25 Apr 1940 WW2 Wasp (Wasp-class) was commissioned into service. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank Norwegian ship Polyana 200 miles southwest of Cape Verde Islands at 0038 hours, killing the entire crew of 25. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 Allied rearguard forces from Thermopylae, Greece traveled 100 miles within 12 hours and reached the Greek capital of Athens around noon time; while crowds welcomed their arrival, diplomats of various countries burned papers as Axis capture was imminent. Just to the south, British troopship Pennland was damaged by German aircraft while attempting to evacuate troops, resulting in 4 deaths; other ships were able to evacuate 5,500 Allied personnel on this day. Out at sea, German aircraft sank 6 merchant ships and 1 yacht; 6 Greek destroyers and 5 submarines were able to escape toward Alexandria, Egypt. Finally, on this date, Hitler issued Führer Directive 28 for the attack on Crete, Greece, which was to be codenamed Operation Merkur. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 The Axis offensive on the Libyan-Egyptian border resumed despite the lack of progress at Tobruk, Libya; German troops engaged British patrols near Fort Capuzzo. The 2 remaining Hurricane fighters in Tobruk were withdrawn to Egypt to join the mere 13 Hurricane fighters there, leaving Tobruk with only Lysander aircraft to perform artillery spotting duties and no aircraft capable of air defense. Out at sea, British submarine HMS Upholder sank Italian ship Antonietta Lauro off the Tunisian island of Kerkenah. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin attacked British ship Empire Light, stopping the ship. After the 70 crew members were taken off, Pinguin scuttled Empire Light. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 The German 8th Panzer Regiment departed Italy in three convoys for North Africa. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 Tanikaze was commissioned into service. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt called Charles Lindbergh an appeaser in response to Lindbergh's 23 Apr 1941 calls for the United States to stay out of the war. 
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25 Apr 1941 WW2 James Lacey, flying a Spitfire fighter, damaged a German Fw 190 aircraft. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor after conducting the Doolittle Raid. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Hornet arrived at Pearl Harbor after conducting the Doolittle Raid. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Davao, Philippine Islands. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-108 sank British ship Modesta 110 miles northwest of Bermuda at 0831 hours; 18 were killed, 23 survived. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Spearfish sank Japanese freighter Toba Maru near the mouth of the Lingayen Gulf in the Philippine Islands. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 27 Japanese bombers, escorted by 15 fighters, attacked the airfield near Darwin, Australia; fighters of the US 49th Pursuit Group, flying P-40 Warhawk fighters, shot down 10 bombers and 2 fighters without any losses. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Four B-17E Flying Fortress bombers of US 30th Bomb Squadron were launched from Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua at 0300 hours to attack Rabaul, New Britain; one of them would ran off the runway in the darkness and became stuck in thick mud, while another crashed into Mount Obree. At 0800 hours, Zero fighters attacked Seven Mile and destroyed the stuck bomber. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Alexander, Slim, and Stilwell met at Kyaukse, Burma, 25 miles south of Mandalay. It was decided that all Allied troops were to be pulled out of Burma, but Slim demanded that no British nor Indian units would be withdrawn to China even if the Chinese border was closer to that of India's. Meanwhile, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at Loilem, central Burma. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Chuichi Hara arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Troops of the Japanese 22nd Infantry Division began to conduct a search in Zhejiang and Jiangxi Provinces on the Chinese coast, burning down and massacring entire villages suspected of assisting the Doolittle Raiders. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 110 British bombers attacked Rostock, Germany for the third night in a row, causing damage in the town and the nearby Heinkel aircraft factory. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was awarded the German Cross in Gold. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Various Italian naval units began departing Italy by road to Vienna, Austria for the ultimate destination the Black Sea via the Danube River. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Captain Taijiro Aoki relieved Captain Hasegawa as the commanding officer of carrier Akagi. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her third voyage for the Japanese Navy. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two fighters north of Ain el Gazala, Libya, first piloted by Squadron Leader Osgood Hanbury (his 53rd kill) and the second piloted by Sergeant Wareham (his 54th kill). 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 The final US-Filipino stronghold on the island of Luzon in the Philippine Islands, Corregidor, while already under daily bombardment for the past two weeks, began to be subjected to night-time bombardment as well. At 2200 hours, two 240-millimeter shells hit the opening of a tunnel leading into the underground command center, killing 15. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 The large group of Polish artists and actors arrested in Krakow, Poland were put on a transport for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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25 Apr 1942 WW2 Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a raid on Bath, England, United Kingdom. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 Admiral Mineichi Koga arrived aboard Yamato for an inspection tour; he arrived to become the new Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, but that fact would be kept secret until the news of Yamamoto's death was to be made public next month. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 Commanding officer of the Chinese 5th Army defected to the Japanese. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Snook sank a Japanese or Chinese sampan with her deck gun off China. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Grayback departed Brisbane, Australia for her seventh war patrol. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing cruiser Aoba at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 Naka departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 Jürgen Stroop reported that 27,464 Jews had been captured in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw, Poland. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo declared her readiness for a war patrol while at Midway Atoll. 
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25 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo departed Midway Atoll for her fifth war patrol. 
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25 Apr 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Saipan. 
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25 Apr 1944 WW2 The Emsland concentration camps in Germany established the Kommandos Nord (Department North), which began to construct concentration camps in Norway north of the Arctic Circle; 1,404 prisoners were transferred there when completed. 
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25 Apr 1944 WW2 Australian troops captured Madang, New Guinea. 
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25 Apr 1944 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops attacked Ningthoukhong, India. 
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25 Apr 1944 WW2 Adolf Hitler made his last major public appearance at Hans-Valentin Hube's funeral in Berlin, Germany. 
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25 Apr 1944 WW2 George Patton was at a welcome club in Knutsford, England, United Kingdom as the guest of honor. Learning that his visit was supposed to be unofficial, he freely spoke of a post-war world in which the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union would together rule the world. A reporter carelessly missed writing down the Soviet Union, thus when the story was published several days later, it appeared as if Patton was disrespecting the Soviet Union. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cod sank Japanese minesweeper W-41. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Finland reported all German troops were now out of its boundaries, which was 10 days later than the Soviet demand. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 US Third Army crossed the Danube River in southern Germany. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 British bombers attacked Berchtesgaden, Germany. The US 8th Air Force conducted its last heavy bomber raid on Germany. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Benito Mussolini fled to Como, Italy. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 US Army Colonel George Lynch addressed German civilians at Gardelegen, Saxony, Germany regarding the massacre of 1,016 political and military prisoners that took place nearby on 13 Apr 1945. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 USAAF B-24 bombers attacked Japanese shipping at Saigon, Indochina, sinking one transport. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 When units of Soviet 1st Byelorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts met near Kietzen, completing the encirclement of Berlin, Germany. German III.SS-Panzer Korps attempted to break this newly formed encirclement in failure. About 70 kilometers to the south, American and Soviet troops met at Torgau. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Galland announced to the pilots of German Jagdverband 44 at München (Munich), Germany that the war was effectively lost, and he would only accept volunteers to continue fighting from now on. All of his men stepped forward as volunteers. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Robert von Greim arrived at Gatow, Berlin, Germany. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 1st Lieutenant William B. Hoelscher, flying a flak-damaged P-51D fighter, pursued and claimed to have shot down the Me 262 jet fighter flown by Leutnant Sepp Huber at 0800 hours; the victory would not be credited. Unable to fly his damaged fighter home, Hoelscher crash landed in occupied Czechoslovakia and was assisted by locals until he made contact with personnel of US 14th Armored Division at Pilsen on 7 May 1945. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 US 34th Infantry Division occupied Parma, Italy, which had recently been liberated by Italian partisan fighters. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 British V Corps crossed the Po River in northern Italy. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Many Italian motor torpedo boats were destroyed to prevent Allied capture. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 At 0900 hours, officers of Japanese Submarine Squadron 1 (Nobukiyo Nambu, Toshio Kusaka, Tsuruzo Shimizu, and Katsuo Ohashi) and 631st Naval Air Group (Lieutenant Commander Masayoshi Fukunaga, Atsugi Asamura, and Kazuo Takahashi) met to discuss plans for an attack on the Panama Canal. They were joined by officers from the Naval General Staff from Tokyo, Japan (Commander Shojiro Iura and Commander Yasuo Fujimori). 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Spot shelled Japanese facilities on Soheugsan island, Korea in the Yellow Sea, destroying or damaging a radio station, oil storage facilities, and barracks. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Graf Zeppelin was scuttled with demolition charges at Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) at 1800 hours to prevent Soviet capture. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-66 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Representatives from 46 nations met in San Francisco, California, United States for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. 
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25 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Barbero was decommissioned and placed in reserve while still in commission. 
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25 Apr 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani's appeal against his death sentence was rejected by Chiang Kaishek. 
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25 Apr 1982 RELIGIOUS Captured in 1967, the Sinai Peninsula was returned by Israel to Egypt, as part of the 1979 Camp David Accord.
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