Calendar: Who to wish today, Thursday, April 25

Today, Thursday, April 25 according to the Orthodox Church, it is the feast of Saint Victory the martyr.

Niki is celebrating.

Today is World Malaria Day.

THE April 25th is 115th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar and fall short 250 days for the end of it.

Events of April 25th

1684 A patent is granted for the invention of the thimble.
1719 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
1792 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lille composes the “Massaliotide”, the national anthem of France.
1792 The first execution by guillotine takes place.
1849 Asteroid 10 Hygieia is located.
1850 Baron Reuter uses 40 pigeons to broadcast stock prices on the Stock Exchange. Beginning of Reuters News Agency
1859 Official permission is given for the opening of the Suez Canal.
1898 A US naval squadron of six warships, under Commodore Dewey, sails for the occupation of the Philippines.
1901 New York becomes the first state to legislate license plates on automobiles.
1942 In the worst mining tragedy, 1,549 workers are killed in an explosion in Manchuria, China.
1944 1st round of secret elections in occupied Greece to nominate electors to the National Council (PEEA).
[1945TheUnitedNationsOrganizationbeginsitsworkinSanFranciscoUnitedStates
1961 Robert Noyce patents the integrated circuit.
1974 The Carnation Revolution breaks out in Portugal, restoring democracy after almost 40 years.
1982 Israel completes its troop withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula under the terms of the Camp David Accords.
1986 Mswati III is crowned king in Swaziland.
1993 Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
2001 UN experts report that for the first time in years, the protective ozone layer over the North Pole appears to have stabilized (while warning that the phenomenon is temporary)
2004 Heinz Fischer is elected president of Austria with 52.4%.
2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign the association treaty with the European Union.
2005 Jiri Parubek becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, to leave in 2006.