Calendar: Who is celebrating today, Thursday, April 25

Today, Thursday, April 25, according to the Calendar, the memory of Agia Niki the martyr is commemorated.

Today Niki celebrates. This name also celebrates other days of the year.

Today, April 25th

• 1719: Robinson Crusoe gets “flesh and bones” through the pen of the English writer Daniel Defoe.
• 1850: Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Reuters news agency, uses 40 pigeons to relay closing stock prices to his clients.
• 1859: Work begins on the opening of the Suez Canal.
• 1915: New Zealand and Australian forces attempt a landing on the Turkish shores of Gallipoli, in the context of the First World War.
• 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: The Carnation Revolution in Portugal. The military re-establishes the Republic, after half a century of dictatorship.

April 25th births

• 1874: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer, inventor of wireless radio transmission. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. (D. 20/7/1937)
• 1940: Al Pacino, American actor.
• 1947: Johan Cruyff, Dutch football player. (Thu. 24/3/2016)

Deaths on April 25

• 1744: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, inventor of the eponymous temperature measurement scale. (Born 27/11/1701)
• 1940: Wilhelm Derpfeld, German archaeologist, who participated in the excavations of Olympia of Mycenae and Troy. (Born 26/12/1853)
• 1994: Georgios Gennimatas, Greek MP and minister, one of the founding members of PASOK. (Born 30/6/1939)