25. April

of the 25. April is the 115. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 116. in leap years), thus still 250 days up to the year end remain.

of events

politics

• 1607: Eighty-year old war - a fleet of the Netherlands destroys the Spanish ships in the battle with Gibraltar.
• 1626: In the dreissigjährigen war becomesthe Protestant army leader Ernst von Mansfeld in the battle with Dessau von Wallenstein struck.
• 1707: In the Spanish succession war is struck a English-Portuguese army in the battle with Almansa by French-Spanish troops.
• 1792: The Marseillaise, of France national anthem,one composes.
• 1839: British troops take combatless the city Kandahar .
• 1859: First cut of the spade for the building of the Suez channel by Ferdinand de Lesseps.
• 1860: Spanish-Moroccan war - in peacetime of Tetuan both war parties agree on one Moroccan remuneration. The city Tétouan becomes the Spanish security for it.
• 1898: The congress explains that itself the United States since that 21. April with Spain in the state of war find.
• 1915: Landing of the Entente - troops on the Dardanellen.
• 1940: Vienna clay/tone Churchill announces that the flag of the Färöer is now internationally recognized. On the Färöern is the 25. April since then a work-free holiday.
• 1945: Soviet and US-American soldiers first meeting of their celebrate Elbe Day, in gate gauCombat forces on German soil.
• 1945: Escape of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini before the allied ones from Salò; this is considered as end of the social republic Italy and Italian fascism.
• 1952: Establishment of the Land of the Federal Republic Baden-Wuerttemberg by combination of the countries Bathe, Württemberg bathing and Württemberg Hohenzollern.
• 1974: With the carnation revolution the dictatorship in Portugal ends.
• 1975: Terrorists of the RAF occupy the German message in Stockholm.
• 1979: The peninsula Sinai is vacated by Israel and on Egypt returned.
• 1983: Gerd heath man, star - reporter, presents a sensational find in Hamburg: „The Hitler diaries “, which will turn out later than falsification.
• 1990: Assassination attempt on Oskar Lafontaine.
• 2002: The second space tourist and first African in the universe Mark of Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical and sponsor of the free Linux distribution Ubuntu, starts to the international space station (EAT).

economics

• 1810: The Britisher Peter Durand receives a patent on fromit can developed.

science and technology

• 1953: Francis Crick and James Watson publish their discovery of the double helical structure of the DNA (support of the hereditary factors).

culture

• 1779: Premiere of the opera La vera costanza (The flutterful lovers) of Joseph Haydn in Esterház.
• 1816: The British poet lord Byron leaves England with the intention of coming never more back. Public indignation about the divorce of its wife is a reason.
• 1876: Penthesilea, a tragedy in 24 appearances of Heinrich of Kleist, is uraufgeführt at the Schauspielhaus Berlin.
• 1889: Gyges and its ring, a tragedy in five documents the 1863 deceased of the Friedrich Hebbel are uraufgeführt at the Viennese castle theatre.
• 1918: Premiere of the opera the drawing of Franz Schreker in Frankfurt/Main.
• 1926: Premiere of the opera Turandot of Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan.
• 1964: A landmark of Copenhagen, those„Small sea virgin “of the sculptor Edvard Eriksen, is heavily damaged by Vandalen.

disasters

• 1980: Teneriffa (Kanaren, Spain). A Boeing 727 the British Dan air services hits during the approach flight against oneMountain. All 146 humans die.

sport

• 1972: Hans Werner large one sets up a stretching gel flight world record, which has over 30 years existence with its flight over 1461 km from Luebeck to Biarritz.

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born

• 1194: Ezzelino there Romano, Italian prince
• 1214: Ludwig IX., King of France
• 1228: Konrad IV., German king
• 1284: Eduard II., King of England
• 1502: George major, lutherischer theologian
• 1529: Francesco Patrizi, Italian philosopher
• 1599: Olive Cromwell, British lord Protector
• 1608: Jean Baptiste gas clay/tone, dukeof Orléans, starting from 1626 duke of Orléans
• 1621: Roger Boyle, 1. Earl OF Orrery, baron OF Broghill and further titles, English statesman
• 1625: Johann Friedrich, son by duke George von Calenberg
• 1652: Giovanni BattistaFoggini, Italian sculptor and architect
• 1653: Johann Christoph of Urbich, secret advice, Danish Ambassador and Minister
• 1655: Rinaldo d'Este, cardinal
• 1657: Emmerich Thököly, prince of filter defiency guarantees
• 1710: James Ferguson (astronomer, 1710-1776),Scottish astronomer and mechanic
• 1714: Emer de Vattel, Schweizer expert in international law
• 1725: Philipp Ludwig Statius Mueller, German zoologist
• 1727: Pasquale Anfossi, Italian Kapellmeister and composer
• 1767: Nicolas Charles Oudinot, marshal of France
• 1770: George Sverdrup, Norwegian Philologe, philosopher and politician
• 1776: Edward being, English buyer and art collecting tank
• 1780: Joseph Anton salt man, bishop in the Basel
• 1781: Ferdinand Karl von Austria Este, field marshal and governor general of Galizien and filter defiency guarantees
• 1791: Franz Heinrich of whale the lake, Prussian general of the Kavallerie
• 1792: John Keble, anglikanischer clergyman and Dicher
• 1800: Abel Seyler, German director of play
• 1806: Robert von Prittwitz and Gaffron, Prussian head of the provincial government in Schlesien
• 1806: William (Braunschweig), duke by Braunschweig
• 1813: Carl Gerster, German physician, Homöopath
• 1822: Max Maria von Weber, Prussian Ministerialrat and railway engineer
• 1823: Christian Friedrich August Dillmann, German Orientalist and theologian
• 1824: Gustave Boulanger, French painter
• 1825: Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, Chilean politician
• 1828: Johanna Mestorf, archaeologist, first museum directress of Germany
• 1839: Ernst Faber, German Sinologe and Missionar
• 1839: Roswell K. Colcord, governor von Nevada
• 1842: Max Lossen, German historian
• 1843: Alice of Hessen darmstadt, German Philanthropin
• 1846: Max Buchner (physician), German explorers
• 1849: Felix Klein, German mathematician
• 1850: Louise Adolpha Le Beau, German Pianistin andKomponistin
• 1852: Leopoldo Clarín, Spanish writer
• 1857: Giuseppe Gamba, archbishop of Turin and cardinal
• 1857: Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer
• 1858: Raffaele Scapinelli Di Leguigno, Kardinal of the Roman-catholic church
• 1861: Marco Enrico Bossi, Italian organist and composer
• 1861: Rudolf Dittrich (musician), Austrian musician
• 1862: Adolf Miethe, German photo chemist and - physicists
• 1862: Friedrich Austerlitz, Austrian journalist and politician
• 1862: Louis Krauss, was a Industrieller andBath tub manufacturer
• 1869: Alois Theodor Sonnleitner, Austrian youth book author
• 1872: Albrecht Bethe, German physiologist
• 1872: Alexandra of Hessen darmstadt, marries with the Zaren Nikolaus II
• 1873: Félix stroke ore d'Hérelle, biologist
• 1873: Walter de laMare, English poet and author
• 1874: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer
• 1880: Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and Choreograf
• 1883: Semjon Michailowitsch Budjonny, marshal of the Soviet Union, three-way hero of the Soviet Union
• 1885: Aloys field man, German politician
• 1886: Jindřich Hořejší, Czech poet and translator
• 1888: Chōjun Miyagi, founder of the Goju Ryu of carat style
• 1890: Camilio Mayer, German high express kindist
• 1890: Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Russian language researcher
• 1892: Jakob Grimminger, Nationalsozialst, carrier of the blood flag in the film triumph of the will
• 1893: Ernst Torgler, German politician and codefendant in the realm tag fire lawsuit.
• 1893: Svend Noldan, German painter and documentary film director
• 1895: Elly lime trees, German politician
• 1895: Fritz Mensing, German politician
• 1895: Stanley Rous, sixth president of the world football federation FIFA
• 1897: Fletcher Pratt, author
• 1898: Arthur Mertins, German politician
• 1898: Edmund Kolbe, German painter
• 1900: Ernst Kris, Austrian-US-American art historian and Psychoanalytiker
• 1900: Gladwyn Jebb, well-known British politician
• 1900: Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and Nobelpreisträger
• 1901: Gottfried Amann, German forest scientist and special book author
• 1901: William Hofmann (paedagogue), German teacher andSpecial paedagogue
• 1902: Briefly Gottschaldt, representative of the Gestalt psychology
• 1902: Leopold Gutterer, German LV politician
• 1902: Werner Heyde, professor for psychiatry and neurology
• 1903: Andrei Nikolajewitsch Kolmogorow, Russian mathematician
• 1903: Camilla horn, GermanActress
• 1903: Michele Pellegrino, archbishop of Turin and cardinal
• 1906: Zoltán Gárdonyi, Hungarian composer, church musician and paedagogue
• 1907: Nikolai Trublaini, Russian writer
• 1907: Wassili Pawlowitsch Solowjow Sedoi, Russian composer
• 1910: Adolf Metzner, German athlete and olympia participant
• 1911: Jack Ruby, murderer of the Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
• 1913: Earl Bostic, US-amerikanischer old saxophonist and composer
• 1914: Marcos Pérez Jiménez, president of Venezuela
• 1915: Max brook, publisher
• 1917: Ella Fitzgerald, US-American jazz singer
• 1918: Alain Savary, French education politician and Résistant
• 1918: Astrid Varnay, Swedish Sopran, late Mezzosopran
• 1918: Ella Fitzgerald, US-American jazz singer
• 1918: Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, FrenchAstronomer
• 1918: Graham Payn, South African-British entertainer, singer and actor
• 1919: Finn Helgesen, Norwegian ice high-speed runner
• 1919: Heinz Wunderlich (musician), German organist and composer
• 1920: Earl Bostic, US-amerikanischer musician
• 1920: Helmut Lortz,German commercial artist
• 1920: Peter Karvaš, slowakischer writer, dramatist and philosopher
• 1921: Karel Appel, Netherlands painter
• 1921: Pery Broad, SS-Unterscharführer
• 1922: Georges Marie Martin Cottier, cardinal
• 1923: Albert King, Bluesmusiker, Blues musician
• 1924: Brigitte Freyh, German politician
• 1924: Joseph Eric D' Arcy, Roman-catholic bishop
• 1925: Sammy Drechsel, German journalist
• 1926: Tadeusz Janczar, Polish actor
• 1927: Albert Uderzo, draughtsman of the well-known Comic series Asterix
• 1927: Seriousness Otto Meyer, German football player
• 1927: Frances Hyland, Canadian actress
• 1927: Rosemarie Fendel, German actress
• 1927: Siegfried Palm, German Cellist
• 1927: Werner Jarowinsky, German politician
• 1928: Cy Twombly, representativethe contemporary American painting
• 1928: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations differently, German writer
• 1929: Hans Joachim Rotzsch, German Kantor, choir leader, tenor and Thomaskantor
• 1930: Paul Mazursky, Vertreter of the US-American author film
• 1930: Peter Schulz, mayor of Hamburg
• 1930: Peter Emil Rupp, manager in the automobile industry
• 1930: Violetta Ferrari, Hungarian actress
• 1931: Bridget Riley, British painter
• 1931: Hans Joachim Böhme, German politician (SED), GDR university Ministers
• 1932: Lia Manoliu, Romanian light athlete and Olympiasiegerin
• 1932: Nikolai Semjonowitsch Kardaschow, Russian astrophysicist
• 1933: Jerry of bodies, US-American Songschreiber
• 1935: Robert Gutowski, US-American Stabhochspringer
• 1936: Henck A. E. Arron, prime minister of Suriname
• 1937: Wolfgang tap, German sociologist
• 1938: Clay/tone trained, Netherlands painter
• 1939: Karin Kessler, German light athlete
• 1939: Patrick Lichfield, British photographer
• 1939: Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian football player
• 1940: Aluminium Pacino, US-American actor, director and producer
• 1940: Yokes Borchert, German politician
• 1941: Bertrand Tavernier, French film director
• 1941: Markus Lüpertz, German painter
• 1941: Peter Skalicky, Rektor of the technical University of Vienna
• 1941: Walter Mixa, German military bishop and bishop of Augsburg
• 1941: Werner Enke, German actor and author
• 1943: Tony Christie, British hit singer
• 1945: Björn Ulvaeus, singer, musician, member of ABBA
• 1945: Stu Cook, US-American musician
• 1946: Andrzej Seweryn, Polish actor
• 1946: Strobe Talbott, US-American diplomat, politician and politics scientist
• 1946: Talia almost one, US-American actress
• 1946: Vladimir Wolfowitsch Schirinowski, Russian politician and delegate of the Duma
• 1947: Johan Cruijff, Netherlands football player
• 1949: Michael Brown, US-American musician
• 1950: Helmut Draxler, Austrian manager
• 1950: Heribert Rech, German Minister of the Interior of Baden-Wuerttemberg
• 1950: Peter Hintze, German politician
• 1950: Steve Ferrone, English Schlagzeuger
• 1950: Ulrich long brook, German artist
• 1952: Jacques Santini, French football coach and football player
• 1952: Milena Duchková, water Springer
• 1952: Wladislaw Alexandrowitsch Tretjak, ice hockey player
• 1953: Giorgio Battistelli, Italian avant-garde composer
• 1953: Jakob Paul Gillmann, Schweizer writer and survey engineer
• 1955: Benjamin Mark of Ramaroson, Malagasy bishop
• 1955: Eric Drexler, pioneer of the molecular nano-technology and author
• 1955: John Nunn, English chess player and chess theoretician
• 1955: Michael Denhoff, German composer and Cellist
• 1956: Miroslav Votava, German football player and today coach
• 1957: Pavel Baran, Czech lecturer
• 1957: Mark Kaboré, prime minister of Burkina Faso smelled
• 1958: Derek William thick, (fish), British singer
• 1961: Agneta Andersson one, Swedish Kanutin
• 1961: Franc De Winne, Belgian astronaut
• 1963: Andreas Rettig, German football functionary
• 1964: Andy Bell, English singer (volume Erasure)
• 1964: Hank Azaria, US-American actor and synchronous speaker
• 1965: Jens eagle, German football player
• 1966: Femke Halsema, Netherlands politician
• 1966: Francis Fulton Smith, British/German actor
• 1967: Joachim Pfeiffer, German politician
• 1968: Thomas Strunz, German football player
• 1969: Gina Torres, US-American actress
• 1969: Dock hundred-one hundred, German wheel running driver
• 1969: Renée Zellweger, US-American actress
• 1970: Jason Lee (actor), US-American actor and producer
• 1970: Jason Wiles, US-American actor, director and producer
• 1970: Joël Abati, hand ball player
• 1970: Kate everything, Austrian tri athlete
• 1973: Barbara Rittner, Tennisspielerin
• 1973: Brigitte carrier, German singer
• 1975: Truls Ove Karlsen, Norwegian ski running runner
• 1976: Gilberto there Silva Melo, Brazilian football player
• 1976: Rainer shaker,German tennis player
• 1976: Tim Duncan, US-amerikanischer basketball player
• 1977: Christian Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977: Sebastian Helbig, German football player
• 1977: Sylviane Berthod, Swiss Skirennläuferin
• 1978: Yim fear for eun, South Korean bath min clay/tone player
• 1979: Andreas Küttel, Swiss ski Springer
• 1980: Alejandro Valverde, Spanish wheel running driver
• 1981: Anja Pärson, Swedish ski alpineLäuferin
• 1983: Dušan Kožíšek, Czech ski long runner
• 1989: Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, present Panchen Lama

died

• 0487: Kenzō, 23. Emperor of Japan
• 1074: Hermann I. by bathing, Mark count von Baden
• 1185: Antoku, 81. Emperor of Japan (1180-1185)
• 1217: Hermann I., Land count of Thuringia
• 1228: Isabella II.,Queen of Jerusalem
• 1316: Friedrich Clem, Mark count von Meissen
• 1472: Leon Battista Alberti, Italian human, architect and architectural theorist
• 1595: Torquato Tasso, Italian poet
• 1605: Naresuan, king of Ayutthaya in Thailand
• 1647: Andreas Scultetus, German writer
• 1647: Matthias Gallas, imperial general in the dreissigjährigen war
• 1744: Differently Celsius, Swedish astronomer, mathematician and physicist
• 1773: Daniele Farlati, Jesuit, church historian
• 1800: Abel Seyler, German director of play
• 1817: Joseph of sun rock, Austrian writer and professor of the political sciences
• 1820: Constantin François Volney, French travelers and Geschichtspilosoph
• 1840: Siméon Denis Poisson, French physicist and mathematician
• 1843: Eduard August fire brook, German lawyers
• 1850: Karl Ernst Wilhelm baron von Canitz and Dallwitz, Prussian general and statesman
• 1878: Anna Sewell, British authoress
• 1898: Benjamin Vautier, German painter
• 1906: John Knowles Paine, US-American composer
• 1911: Emilio Salgari, Italian writer
• 1912: Wacław of Rolicz songs, Polish poet
• 1928: Pjotr Nikolajewitsch Wrangel, general in the Russian civil war
• 1940: William Dörpfeld, German architect and archaeologist
• 1942: George Singer, German KPD politician and anti-fascist
• 1944: Humphrey Cobb, US-American writer
• 1945: Humbert Achamer Pifrader, boss of the group of employments of A, mass murderers
• 1956: Paul Renner, German Typograf
• 1958: Charles Victor Mauguin, French Mineraloge
• 1968: Walter Tewksbury, US-American Leichthathlet (runner), double olympia winner ofParis (1900)
• 1970: Otis stretch, US-American musician
• 1971: Karl Blessing, German President of the Federal Bank
• 1971: Max Drischner, German composer, Oragnist and Cembalist
• 1974: Guus Lutjens, Netherlands football player
• 1975: Andreas's von Mirbach, GermanOfficer and diplomat
• 1976: Aquiles Nazoa, venezolanischer writer, poet and journalist
• 1976: Carol Reed, British film director
• 1978: Zenta Maurina, lettische authoress
• 1980: Albert Tönjes, German politician and MdB
• 1980: Katharina man, Granddaughter of the Frauenrechtlerin Hedwig Dohm
• 1980: Mario Bava, Italian film director, cameraman and film script author
• 1984: Peter Schult, German writer and journalist
• 1989: George Coulouris, British actor
• 1990: Dexter Gordon, US-American tenor saxophonist
• 1991: Michael bold one, leader of the German neo-Nazi movement
• 1992: Werner stone mountain, German writer
• 1995: Ginger Rogers, US-American actress
• 1999: Michael Morris, 3. Baron Killanin, former president of the IOC
• 2000: Niels Viggo Bentzon,Danish composer
• 2001: Michele Alboreto, Italian author driver
• 2002: Lisa Lopes, American singer of the Girlgroup TLC
• 2003: Lothar Coenen, German theologian
• 2003: Lynn Chadwick, British sculptor
• 2003: Otmar Mäder, Swiss bishop
• 2003: Wolfgang Dehler, German actor
• 2004: Carl Melles, Hungarian conductor
• 2004: Thom Gunn, British poet
• 2005: Hasil Adkins, US-American musician
• 2006: Friedrich Pressler, German soccer player

celebration andAnniversaries

• church anniversaries:
  • Hl. Markus, EH gelist, martyr (catholic, Evangelist, anglikanisch, orthodox)
  • Sel. Hermann I. by bathing, Mark count von Baden (catholic)
  • Hl. Erwin
• of national holidays:
  • Italy (release from fascism, end of the Second World War)
  • Portugal (day of the liberty, carnation revolution)
• International day of the tree
• Africa malaria day (world malaria day)

see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale