Today: All the holidays and the most important events of April 25

• Dogma
• April 25, 2024
• 0:06

Holidays of Orthodoxy, important historical, political, social events, births and deaths that happened like today, April 25.

The Church today honors the memory of the Apostle and Evangelist Mark. Martyr of Victory and of the Eight Holy Martyrs and Departed Fathers. Macedonian Patriarch Kon/polis.
Some of the most important events that happened today, April 25.

404 BC With the victory of the Spartans under Lysander over the Athenians, the Peloponnesian War ends.

1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian Renaissance poet, dies.

1744 Anders Kelsius, Swedish astronomer, creator of the temperature measurement scale that bears his name, dies.

1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, is born. One of the most famous and beloved creations of “The Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake”.

1850 today April 25 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Reuters news agency, uses 40 pigeons to convey to his clients the closing prices of the stock market.

1874 Guglielmo Marconi, the well-known Italian inventor of the radio, is born. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909.

1994 today, April 25, politician and Minister of National Economy Georgios Gennimatas dies after a three-year battle with cancer. The Recognition of the National Resistance, the return of the political refugees of the Democratic Army, the National Health System (ESH) and the vote at 18 have been associated with Giorgos Gennimatas.

1996 Greece officially recognizes the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as an independent state.