April 25

Saturday 25, 1959:

David Carr, a 25-year-old Briton, enters Royal Manchester Infirmary in England. His death later that year was in 1990 attributed to AIDS by a director at the infirmary, Gerald Corbitt; a 1995 by Corbitt cowrote an update noting that the virus was from 1990.

Tuesday 25, 1944:

The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.

Monday 25, 1881:

Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.

Friday 25, 1862:

American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wednesday 25, 1607:

Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.