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.

Saturday 25, 1953:

Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.

Wednesday 25, 1945:

Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.

Tuesday 25, 1944:

The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.

Sunday 25, 1943:

The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket was instituted.

Thursday 25, 1940:

The Faroese flag Merkið is made the official flag for the Faroe Islands.

Monday 25, 1938:

U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.

Sunday 25, 1926:

Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name Reza Pahlavi.

Tuesday 25, 1916:

1916 - ANZAC Day commemorated for the first time.

Sunday 25, 1915:

The ANZAC tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.

Thursday 25, 1901:

New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

Monday 25, 1898:

Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

Monday 25, 1881:

Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.

Monday 25, 1864:

American Civil War: Battle of Mark's Mills – Confederate forces seize a Union wagon supply train on its way to Camden, Arkansas forcing Union General Frederick Steele to withdraw his troops to Little Rock, Arkansas.

Friday 25, 1862:

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

Monday 25, 1859:

Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.

Wednesday 25, 1849:

The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

Saturday 25, 1846:

Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.

Wednesday 25, 1792:

"La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

Tuesday 25, 1719:

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published.

Monday 25, 1707:

An Allied Austrian army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Wednesday 25, 1607:

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

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