On this day in 1953, scientists Francis Crick and James Watson publish their groundbreaking work on the chemical structure of DNA. For this discovery, they will be honored with the Nobel Prize in 1962.
Like today April 25 the 1719 Robinson Crusoe takes on “flesh and bones” from the pen of the English writer Daniel Defoe, the 1915 New Zealand and Australian forces attempt to land on the Turkish shores of Gallipoli, in the context of World War I and the 1974 the “Carnation Revolution” begins in Portugal, after the overthrow of the dictatorship that had lasted since 1926 by the “Armed Forces Movement”.
1599 English Revolutionary leader and protector of England Oliver Cromwell is born
1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, creator of the temperature measurement scale that bears his name, has died
1719 Robinson Crusoe takes on “flesh and bones” from the pen of the English writer Daniel Defoe.
1792 Traveler robber Nicolas Pelletier is the first person in the US to be executed by guillotine.
1792 French composer and poet Roger Delil composes “Massaliotide”, the anthem of the French bourgeois Revolution, a song that spread the spirit of the Revolution throughout the world. Later, “Massaliotida” became the national anthem of France.
1840 Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (“The Nutcracker”, “Swan Lake”) is born
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.
1859 Official permission is given for the opening of the Suez Canal.
1874 The Italian inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, was born
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.
1920 The Supreme Council of the Allies offers guardianship of Armenians in the US and of Palestinians in Britain.
1929 The German state is borrowing from the big banks because it has no money to pay the salaries of civil servants and finance unemployment benefits.
1940 American actor Al Pacino is born
1942 In China, in the Japanese-occupied city of Benhi, one of the worst coal mine accidents takes place. The dead exceed 1,500.
[1945The founding conference of the United Nations begins in San Francisco, USA.
[1945 Soviet and American troops meet at the Elbe River.
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.
1954 The US conducts its first nuclear test in the Bikini Islands.
1959 The first person who – as will be revealed later – suffers from AIDS, enters the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He is a sailor by profession and will die 4.5 months later.
1961 The patent for the first integrated circuit is granted to the American Robert Noyce.
1967 In the US, the governor of Colorado, John Love, signs the first law, legalizing abortion.
1967 On the same day, the prisoner Panagiotis Elis is murdered in the Hippodrome of Faliros by the vice-captain K. Kotsaris.
1974 The “Carnation Revolution” begins in Portugal, after the overthrow of the dictatorship that had lasted since 1926 by the “Armed Forces Movement”.
1981 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs at the nuclear plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1995 American actress and dancer, Ginger Rogers, has died.
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