April 25: Who’s celebrating – Some events like today

April 25: events like today

Pictures: Francis Crick and James Watson present the structure of DNA, The Carnation Revolution, George Gennimatas, Johan Cruyff, Al Pacino

Thursday, April 25, 2024: Agia Niki’s martyr

There is no known holiday

Anniversaries
• World Malaria Day

Events on April 25
• 404 BC The Peloponnesian War ends with the victory of Lysander’s Spartans against the Athenians.
• 1719 Robinson Crusoe gets “flesh and bones” through the pen of Daniel Defoe.

• 1792 The first guillotine execution takes place.
• 1850 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Reuters news agency, uses 40 pigeons to convey the closing prices of the stock market to his clients.

• 1901 New York becomes the first state to legislate license plates on cars.
• 1915 New Zealand and Australian forces attempt to land on the Turkish shores of Gallipoli, in the context of the First World War. About 7,000 Australians and 2,000 New Zealanders were killed during the eight-month conflict.

• 1942 In the worst mine tragedy, 1,549 workers are killed in an explosion in Manchuria, China.
• 1944 1st Round of secret elections in occupied Greece for the nomination of electors to the National Council (PEEA).
• [1945 Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves northern Italy. The Italian Social Democracy dissolves and Benito Mussolini is arrested after an escape attempt. This day was designated as a public holiday to celebrate the liberation of Italy.
• 1953 Scientists Francis Crick and James Watson publish their groundbreaking work on the chemical structure of DNA. For their discovery, which was characterized as the greatest of the 20th century, they will be honored with the Nobel Prize in 1962.

• 1974 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian conservative New State regime and installs a democratic government. It went down in history as the “Revolution of the Carnations” (“Revolucao dos Cravos” in Portuguese), because many government soldiers had placed carnations in the barrels of their guns, at the instigation of the rebellious inhabitants.

• 1993 Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
• 1994 Politician and Minister of National Economy Giorgios Gennimatas dies after a three-year battle with cancer. Giorgos Gennimatas was a Greek politician, founding member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), MP and minister of the post-political period under the governments of Andreas Papandreou.
• 2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign the association treaty with the European Union.

April 25th births
• 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor
• 1940 Al Pacino, American actor
• 1946 Yiannis Smaragdis, Greek director
• 1947 Johan Cruyff, Dutch football player
• 1969 Konstantinos Kazakos, Greek actor
• 1970 Annita Pania, Greek TV presenter

Deaths on April 25
• 1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, inventor of the eponymous temperature measurement scale

• 1981 Takis Sinopoulos, Greek writer
• 1994 George Gennimatas Greek politician

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