This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
04/25/1214 Louis IX, King of France (1226-70) 
04/25/1284 Edward II, King of England (1307-27) 
04/25/1567 Aurelio Signoretti, composer 
04/25/1599 Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) 
04/25/1614 Hieronymus van Beverningk, chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas 
04/25/1614 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer 
04/25/1666 Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer 
04/25/1690 Gottlieb Muffat, composer 
04/25/1710 James Ferguson, astronomer 
04/25/1723 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer 
04/25/1730 Fedele Fenaroli, composer 
04/25/1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor 
04/25/1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement) 
04/25/1818 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer 
04/25/1824 Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter 
04/25/1825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd, US, standardized time zones 
04/25/1837 William Charles Levey, composer 
04/25/1840 James Dearing, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 
04/25/1840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture) (5/7 NS) 
04/25/1841 Pauline Lucca, soprano 
04/25/1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila) 
04/25/1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium) 
04/25/1862 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affair

04/25/1867 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist 
04/25/1869 Karl Prohaska, composer 
04/25/1871 Sara Amsel, Indonesian/Dutch actress 
04/25/1872 Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/writer 
04/25/1873 Walter De la Mare, English poet/anthologist (Behold the Dreamer) 
04/25/1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio) (Nobel 1909) 
04/25/1876 Ruben Marcos Campos, composer 
04/25/1881 Hans Windisch, German new testament expert 
04/25/1883 Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show) 
04/25/1895 Stanley Rous, British soccer official 
04/25/1897 Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer 
04/25/1897 VAA Mary, English princess 
04/25/1900 Lord Gladwyn, British Liberal 
04/25/1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945) 
04/25/1901 Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer 
04/25/1903 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer 
04/25/1906 William J Brennan Jr, Newark NJ, 92nd Supreme Court justice (1956-90

04/25/1906 Zoltan Gardonyi, composer 
04/25/1907 Paula Trueman, NYC, actress (Gran-Billy) 
04/25/1907 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer 
04/25/1908 Edward R Murrow, Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person) 
04/25/1909 Jaroslav Doubrava, composer 
04/25/1912 Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis 
04/25/1913 Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation) 
04/25/1913 Russ Conway, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye) 
04/25/1914 Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela 
04/25/1915 Aja Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer 
04/25/1918 Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56) 
04/25/1918 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (Is it live or is it Memorex) 
04/25/1919 Heinz Wunderlich, composer 
04/25/1920 Marre, reformer of the bar 
04/25/1921 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet 
04/25/1923 Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitar (Bad Look Blues) 
04/25/1923 Anita Bjorak, actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People) 
04/25/1923 Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer 
04/25/1923 Melissa Hayden, Toronto Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl) 
04/25/1924 Erzsebet Szonyi, composer 
04/25/1924 Franco Mannino, composer 
04/25/1925 Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist 
04/25/1926 Paul Walter Furst, composer 
04/25/1927 Ernst Widmer, composer 
04/25/1929 Yvette Corlett, athlete 
04/25/1929 Yvette Williams, NZ, long jumper (Oly-gold-52) 
04/25/1930 Dotty Mack, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Paul Dixon Show) 
04/25/1930 Paul Mazursky, US, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson) 
04/25/1931 David Shepherd, painter 
04/25/1932 Lia Manoliu, Romania, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1968) 
04/25/1932 Meadowlark Lemon, basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter) (or 0421) 
04/25/1932 William Roache, England, actor (Ken Barlow-Coronation Street) 
04/25/1933 Helen Paling, British circuit judge 
04/25/1934 David de Peyer, cancer research campaigner 
04/25/1934 Denny 'Scott' Miller, Bloomington Ind, actor (Wagon Train) 
04/25/1937 Bo Brundin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange) 
04/25/1937 Thomas Faber, publisher 
04/25/1939 Lord Lichfield, British photographer 
04/25/1939 Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat 
04/25/1940 Al Pacino, NYC, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio) 
04/25/1940 Marian Norrie 
04/25/1940 OB McClinton, [Burnett], country singer (Keep your arms around me) 
04/25/1941 Chris Augustine, rocker (Every Mother's Son) 
04/25/1941 Lawrence J Smith, (Rep-D-FL, 1983-  ) 
04/25/1942 John Martin Dalby, composer 
04/25/1942 Jon Kyl, (Rep-R-Arizona) 
04/25/1944 John Bryant, editor (Europeans) 
04/25/1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus, rock vocalist/guitarist (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen

04/25/1945 Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary) 
04/25/1945 Walt Wesley, NBA star (Cleve Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, LA Lakers) 
04/25/1946 ... Zhirinovsky [Edelstein), Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite 
04/25/1946 Digby Fairweather, jazz trumpeter 
04/25/1946 Peter Sutherland, CEO (Allied Irish Banks) 
04/25/1946 Talia Shire, [Coppola], Lake Success NY, actress (Adrienne-Rocky) 
04/25/1947 Bill Fontana, composer 
04/25/1947 Jeffrey DeMunn, actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City, Sessions) 
04/25/1947 Johan Cruyff, soccer manager 
04/25/1949 Michael Brown, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee) 
04/25/1950 Steve Ferrone, drummer (Average White Band) 
04/25/1951 Ian McCartney, MP 
04/25/1951 Linda Stone, pharmacist 
04/25/1954 Rob Crosby, Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural) 
04/25/1955 Buster Mottram, tennis player 
04/25/1955 John Nunn, British chess player 
04/25/1957 Eric Bristow, England, dart thrower (5 World Masters titles) 
04/25/1958 Fish, [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist (Marillion-Sugar Mice)

04/25/1964 Andy Bell, rocker (Erasure-Oh L'Amour) 
04/25/1966 Isabelle Pasco, France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue) 
04/25/1967 Cameo, XXX actress (Patriot Dames, Suburban Buttnicks, Women in Need

04/25/1975 Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball) 
04/25/1985 Jonathan Halyalkar, Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who's the Boss) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
04/25/ 974 Ratherius Van Verona/Luik, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84 
04/25/1295 Sancho IV, the brave, leader/king of Castili‰/Le¢n, dies 
04/25/1342 Benedict XII, [Jacques Fournier], Pope (1334-42), dies 
04/25/1472 Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies

04/25/1482 Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI), dies 
04/25/1566 Diane de Poitiers, of French King Henry II, dies 
04/25/1595 Torquato Tasso, poet, dies 
04/25/1607 Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle 
04/25/1607 Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle 
04/25/1635 Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (La secchia rapita), dies 
04/25/1647 Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62 
04/25/1663 Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53 
04/25/1690 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79 
04/25/1728 John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies 
04/25/1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies 
04/25/1792 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54 
04/25/1792 Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined 
04/25/1800 William Cowper, poet, dies 
04/25/1808 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 67 
04/25/1828 John Goldberg, patriot/statesman, dies at 64 
04/25/1840 Sim‚on-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies

04/25/1845 Thomas Duncan, painter, dies 
04/25/1853 William Beaumont, physiologist, dies 
04/25/1882 Johann CF Z”llner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies 
04/25/1905 Jacob Olie, photographer, dies 
04/25/1906 John Knowles Paine, composer, dies at 67 
04/25/1915 Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72 
04/25/1925 George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81 
04/25/1926 Ellen Key, Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies 
04/25/1928 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies 
04/25/1937 Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to ope

04/25/1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies 
04/25/1951 Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47 
04/25/1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies 
04/25/1955 Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77 
04/25/1955 Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies 
04/25/1960 Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67 
04/25/1960 Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62 
04/25/1960 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92 
04/25/1966 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author, dies at 70 
04/25/1969 Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80 
04/25/1970 Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at 53 
04/25/1971 Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80 
04/25/1972 George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65 
04/25/1976 Carol Reed, director (Agony & Ecstasy), dies 
04/25/1976 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79 
04/25/1981 Dixie, a mouse who lived 6« years 
04/25/1982 Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happhy Breed), dies at 73 
04/25/1982 Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81 
04/25/1982 John Cody, US cardinal/archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74 
04/25/1982 Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies 
04/25/1982 William R Burnett, US, writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82 
04/25/1984 Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack 
04/25/1985 Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72 
04/25/1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80 
04/25/1988 Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76 
04/25/1988 Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43 
04/25/1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 

04/25/1989 George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85 
04/25/1990 Dexter Gordon, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 67 in Philadelphia 
04/25/1991 Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies 
04/25/1991 Theo Laseroms, [Tank], soccer player (Feyenoord), dies 
04/25/1992 Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39 
04/25/1992 Dany [Dani‰l S] Tuijnman, Dutch min of traffic & water, dies at 77 
04/25/1992 Panos Christi, entertainer, dies 
04/25/1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema 
04/25/1993 Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies 
04/25/1994 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55 
04/25/1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant moslem leader, shot dead at 32 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
04/25/ 404 Army of Sparta conquerors Athens 
04/25/1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Joritomo beats Taira-family 
04/25/1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns 
04/25/1541 -26) Luik flooded after heavy down pour 
04/25/1604 Earl Maurits' army lands at Cadzand 
04/25/1607 Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet 
04/25/1614 Amsterdam Bank of Loan established 
04/25/1660 Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II 
04/25/1678 French troops conquer Ieper 
04/25/1684 Patent granted for thimble 
04/25/1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese 
04/25/1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand 
04/25/1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier 
04/25/1848 A Graham discovers asteroid #9 Metis 
04/25/1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal 
04/25/1861 7th NY arrives to reinforce Washington, DC 
04/25/1861 Battle of Lavaca, TX 
04/25/1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, La 
04/25/1862 Battle of New Orleans LA - captured by US Admiral Farragut 
04/25/1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) 
04/25/1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade 
04/25/1875 Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3') 
04/25/1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout) 
04/25/1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany 
04/25/1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna 
04/25/1890 J Palisa discovers asteroids #291 Alice & #292 Ludovica 
04/25/1891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF 
04/25/1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado) 
04/25/1898 US declares war on Spain 
04/25/1901 Erve Beck hit 1st home run in American League 
04/25/1905 Whites win suffrage in South-Africa 
04/25/1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #599 Luisa 
04/25/1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli 
04/25/1925 Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany 
04/25/1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowned himself Shah Palawi 
04/25/1926 Puccini's opera 'Turandot' 1st performed 
04/25/1927 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen) 
04/25/1933 NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0 
04/25/1933 US & Canada drop Gold Standard 
04/25/1938 1st use of seeing eye dog 
04/25/1945 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF 
04/25/1945 British troops reach Grebbelinie 
04/25/1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmissi

04/25/1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany 
04/25/1945 Red army completely surrounding Berlin 
04/25/1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River 
04/25/1946 'Exposition Flyer' rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 
04/25/1946 45 die in a train crash in Naperville Illinois 
04/25/1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling cham

04/25/1949 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1922 Zulu 
04/25/1949 Michael Brown, rocker (Left Banke-Don't Walk Away Renee) 
04/25/1950 Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan) 
04/25/1950 Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA 
04/25/1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter 
04/25/1952 German 'Country' Bathe-Wrttemberg forms 
04/25/1952 Minneapolis beats New York, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship 
04/25/1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC) 
04/25/1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya 
04/25/1954 WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting 
04/25/1956 Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel' goes #1 
04/25/1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated 
04/25/1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian govt 
04/25/1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting 
04/25/1959 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping 
04/25/1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton) 
04/25/1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin 
04/25/1961 Premier Mo‹se Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo 
04/25/1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit 
04/25/1961 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad 
04/25/1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon 
04/25/1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island 
04/25/1964 Tor Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup 
04/25/1965 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship 
04/25/1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium 
04/25/1967 Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland 
04/25/1969 BBC Radio serial 'Dales' 5,400th & last episode 
04/25/1970 Freda Payne releases 'Band of Gold' 
04/25/1970 Melanie releases 'Lay Down' 
04/25/1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire 
04/25/1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12 
04/25/1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gnther Guillaume found to be a spy 
04/25/1974 Dictator Ant¢nio Salazar overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolutio

04/25/1974 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium govt 
04/25/1974 NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff 
04/25/1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao 
04/25/1975 Portugal holds its 1st free election in 50 years 
04/25/1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden 
04/25/1976 Portugal adopts constitution 
04/25/1977 Cin Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Braves 23-9 
04/25/1978 Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance 
04/25/1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more 
04/25/1979 'Rock 'n Roll High Schools' premieres 
04/25/1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2656 Evenkia & #3653 
04/25/1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran 
04/25/1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28) 
04/25/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2688 Halley, #3275 Oberndorfer & #3692

04/25/1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl 
04/25/1983 'Nightline' expands from « hour to a full hour 
04/25/1983 Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election 
04/25/1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR 
04/25/1984 Rock group Wings disbands 
04/25/1985 Flyers 2-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead 
04/25/1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game 
04/25/1985 West German Parliament makes it punishable to deny the holocaust 
04/25/1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5 
04/25/1988 'Nightline' goes on location to Jerusalem Israel 
04/25/1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem 
04/25/1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211 
04/25/1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY 
04/25/1989 Penguin Mario Lemuix ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st perio

04/25/1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards (Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win

04/25/1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle discovery 
04/25/1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres

04/25/1991 Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)

04/25/1991 Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment

04/25/1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader 
04/25/1994 14' of snow in Southern Calif 
04/25/1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed 
04/25/1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed

04/25/1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns 
04/25/1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan 
  
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