April 25 in history
Events on April 25
Notable events that happened on April 25 in past years.
- 2026
Shots are fired outside of the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the Washington Hilton where U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet are attending. One injury is reported and a suspect is taken into custody.
Wikipedia article: 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting - 2007
Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
Wikipedia article: Death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin - 2004
The March for Women's Lives brings over one million protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
Wikipedia article: March for Women's Lives (2004) - 1982
Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
Wikipedia article: Israel - 1974
Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime.
Wikipedia article: Carnation Revolution - 1954
The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Wikipedia article: Solar cell - 1945
World War II: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two. This would be later known as Elbe Day.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1944
The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
Wikipedia article: UNCF - 1920
At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
Wikipedia article: San Remo conference - 1892
Véry bombing during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894).
Wikipedia article: Véry bombing - 1859
British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
Wikipedia article: Suez Canal - 1829
Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire.
Wikipedia article: Charles Fremantle - 1792
"La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
Wikipedia article: La Marseillaise - 1464
A Yorkist army under the Baron Montagu defeats a Lancastrian army under the Duke of Somerset in the battle of Hedgeley Moor during the Wars of the Roses.
- 404 BC
Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
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