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Today in History
~ April 25
Arbor
Day
Events
1449 - Anti-pope Felix V resigns
1507 - German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller published a book in which he named the newly discovered continent of the New World America after the man he (mistakenly) thought had discovered it: Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
1626 - Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Albrecht von Wallenstein thrashes Earl of Mansfeld
1660 - Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
1684 - Patent granted for thimble
1792 - Guillotine first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1831 - The play The Lion of the West. lionizing Davy Crockett opens in New York City. [H]
1850 - Paul Julius Reuter, uses 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1859 - Construction of the Suez Canal begins [H]
1862 - Battle of New Orleans - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans
1864 - Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
1867 - Tokyo opens for foreign trade
1881 - 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
1886 - Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1896 - Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
1898 - Congress formally declared war on Spain in the battle over Cuba.
1901 - 1901, New York became the first state to require automobile license plates; the fee was $1.
1915 - 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany
1926 - Giacomo Puccini's final opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
1928 - Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind in the U.S.
1935 - The first round-the-world telephone conversation takes place. Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone Company in New York, and T.G. Miller, a vice president sitting about fifty feet away, spoke to each other via a call that was routed by 23,000 miles of telephone wire and radio connections through San Francisco, Java, Amsterdam, London, and back to New York.
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1945 - 45 countries convene UN Conference on International Organization in San Francisco
1945 - Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1945 - Red army completely surrounds Berlin
1945 - During World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces linked up at Torgau Germany on Elbe River, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany's defenses.
1953 - Scientists identify DNA
1954 - British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested)
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
1959 - St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
1960 - 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
1961 - Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
1961 - Premier Moese Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1962 - US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
1966 - Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
1967 - Abortion legalized in Colorado
1967 - Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," premieres in NYC
1971 - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1972 - Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
1974 - The "Carnation Revolution" took place.
1979 - Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect
1980 - A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
1980 - Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1982 - In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
1983 - Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR [H]
1983 - The Pioneer 10 spacecraft crossed Pluto's orbit, speeding on its endless voyage through the Milky Way.
1985 - West German Parliament rules it illegal to deny the holocaust
1988 - John Demjanjuk of Cleveland (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem
1990 - Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery. The space telescope, conceived in the 1940s, designed in the 1970s, and built in the 1980s, was designed to give astronomers an unparalleled view of the solar system, the galaxy, and the universe.
1990 - Violetta Chamorro assumed Nicaraguan presidency, ending more than a decade of leftist Sandinista rule.
1991 - The United States announced its first financial aid to Hanoi since the 1960s: $1 million to make artificial limbs for Vietnamese disabled during the war.
1992 - Pentagon officials said an airman was missing and two others were injured after a U.S. Air Force C-130 drug interdiction aircraft was fired on by Peruvian jets.
1992 - Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
1993 - Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
1993 - An estimated 300,000 people took part in a gay rights march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
1995 - Regular season play by major-league baseball teams got underway and was the first official action since the longest strike in sports history began in August 1994.
1997 - The prosecution began calling witnesses in Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing trial.
1997 - A federal district court in Greensboro, N.C., ruled for the first time that the Food and Drug Administration can regulate tobacco as a drug _ but said it couldn't restrict cigarette advertising.
1998 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified via videotape for the Little Rock, Ark., grand jury in the Whitewater case.
1999 - Vice President Al Gore was among the 70,000 who attended a memorial service for the victims of the Columbine High School shootings five days earlier.
2000 - The Vermont House of Representatives approved a measure legalizing civil unions among same sex couples. The governor signed the bill into law on the 26th, making Vermont the first state in the nation to give homosexual couples the same legal status as heterosexual married couples.
2001 - In unusually blunt terms, President Bush warned China that an attack on Taiwan could provoke a U.S. military response.
2001 - A rescue plane flew out of the South Pole with ailing American doctor Ronald S. Shemenski in the most daring airlift ever from the pole.
2001 - Federal regulators ordered limited price controls on California wholesale electricity markets.
Birthdays Today
1214 - Louis IX, King of France (1226-70)
1228 - Koenraad IV, Roman Catholic German king (1237-54)
1284 - Edward II, King of England (1307-27)
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
1840 - Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)
1906 - William J Brennan Jr, NJ, 92nd Supreme Court judge (1956-90)
1908 - Edward R. (Roscoe) Murrow, Pole Creek NC, (newsman: You Are There, Person to Person; former head U.S. Information Agency)
1913 - Earl Bostic (alto sax player, bandleader: Flamingo, Sleep, You Go to My Head, Cherokee, Temptation)
1915 - Sal Franzella (jazz musician)
1916 - Jerry Barber (golfer: PGA Champion [1961])
1918 - Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)
1918 - Ella Fitzgerald (Grammy Award-winning singer [12]: Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home, Mack the Knife, A-Tisket, A-Tasket)
1923 - Albert King (Nelson) (blues singer, guitarist: Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong, Think Twice before You Speak, Born under a Bad Sign, Cold Feet)
1923 - Melissa Hayden, Toronto Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl)
1928 - Rick Henderson (jazz musician)
1930 - Paul Mazursky (director: Harry and Tonto, An Unmarried Woman, Scenes from a Mall, The Pickle, Moscow on the Hudson, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Tempest)
1932 - Gator (Willis) Jackson (composer, tenor sax: invented the 'gator horn': Chuck's Chuckles, Dance of the Lady Bug, Back Door, Later Gator)
1932 - Meadowlark (George) Lemon (basketball: Harlem Globetrotters)
1933 - Jerry Leiber (record producer with Mike Stoller: Hard Times, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Up on the Roof, On Broadway, Chapel of Love)
1935 - Robert Gutowski (vaulter)
1937 - Thomas Faber, publisher
1940 - Al Pacino (Academy Award-winning actor: Scent of a Woman [1992], Scarface, Serpico, The Godfather, Dick Tracy; Tony Award-winning actor: Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie [1969], The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel [1977])
1946 - Talia Shire (Coppola) (actress: Godfather (1,2 & 3), Rocky (1-5), For Richer, For Poorer, A Century of Women, Blood Vows)
1946 - Terry Hermeling (football: Washington Redskins tackle: Super Bowl VII)
1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, [Edelstein], Russian nationalist/anti-semite
1950 - Don DeMola (baseball)
1952 - Don Martineau (hockey)
Famous deaths
0974 - Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot, dies at 84
1566 - Diane de Poitiers, lover of French King Henry II, dies
1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51
1744 - Anders Celsius, Swed astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies at 42
1792 - Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine.
1808 - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66
1853 - William Beaumont, physiologist, dies
1954 - Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies
1972 - George Sanders, actor (Ivanhoe), suicide at 65
1982 - Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
1985 - Richard Haydn, British sailor/author/actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80
1988 - Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83
1995 - Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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