April 25 is the 115st day of the year (116nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1719 - Daniel Defoe's famous novel, Robinson Crusoe published.
- 1859 – The excavation of the Suez Canal, which will connect the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, begins in Port Said, Egypt.
- 1901 - New York became the first state to make license plates mandatory for cars.
- 1915 – Anglo-French forces launched a landing operation in Çanakkale. Land wars have begun.
- 1915 – Battle of Seddülbahir started.
- 1915 – Battle of Arıburnu started.
- 1925 - Field Marshal Hindenburg becomes Germany's first President to be elected by popular vote.
- 1926 - Reza Khan Pahlavi proclaimed himself "Shah" in Iran.
- 1939 – A contract was signed with Lufthansa for regular flights between Istanbul and Berlin, starting from June 1.
- 1945 – Delegates from 46 countries met in San Francisco to establish the United Nations, which would replace the League of Nations.
- 1946 – Sleeper train services started on the Istanbul - Ankara line.
- 1946 – Garanti Bank of Turkey was established.
- 1952 – Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and Foreign Minister Fuad Köprülü made an official visit to Greece.
- 1953 - Two scientists at the University of Cambridge discovered the molecular structure they called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which carries inherited traits from parent to child.
- 1957 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,1 occurred in the Fethiye district of Muğla: 67 people died.
- 1962 – The Constitutional Court was established.
- 1968 – Andre Malraux's book “Hope” translated into Turkish was confiscated on the grounds of “communist propaganda”.
- 1974 – Carnation Revolution in Portugal: Salazar's fascist dictatorship is overthrown by a military uprising led by General Antonio Spinola.
- 1975 – In Portugal, the Socialist Party, led by Mario Soares, wins the elections to the Constituent Assembly.
- 1976 – The Socialist Party led by Mario Soares won the first parliamentary elections in Portugal after the fascist dictatorship.
- 1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): Left-wing militants Seyit Konuk, İbrahim Ethem Coşkun and Necati Vardar killed the contractor Nuri Yapıcı in İzmir. 15 people were killed across the country.
- 1983 - Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Pluto.
- 1990 - The crew of the US space shuttle Discovery succeeds in putting the first space telescope, Hubble, into orbit around the earth.
- 2001 – Former President of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, is arrested at his home in Manila on charges of siphoning his country's $80 million.
- 2001 – The law bringing autonomy to the Central Bank was passed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
- 2005 – Negotiations for Bulgaria and Romania's entry into the European Union started.
- 2005 – Train crash in Japan: 107 dead.
- 2015 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,8 or 8,1 occurred in Nepal, killing more than 8.000 people. 19.000 people were injured.
- 2022 – Osman Kavala was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment.
Births
- 32 – Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
- 1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English politician and soldier (leader of the rebellion against absolutism in England) (d.
- 1657 – Tökeli İmre, Hungarian King (d. 1705) who took refuge in the Ottoman Empire
- 1725 – Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, German zoologist (d. 1776)
- 1767 – Nicolas Oudinot, French soldier (d. 1848)
- 1776 – Mary (duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh), member of the British royal family (d. 1857)
- 1815 – Mirza Shirazi, Islamic scholar (d. 1895)
- 1823 – Sultan Abdülmecit, 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1861)
- 1824 – Gustave Boulanger, French classical figure painter and naturalist (d. 1888)
- 1843 – Alice (Princess of the United Kingdom), Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
- 1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1852 – Leopoldo Alas, Spanish writer (d.1901)
- 1862 – Edward Grey, British liberal politician (d. 1933)
- 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1937)
- 1888 – Chojun Miyagi, Japanese athlete and karate (d. 1953)
- 1897 – Mary (Royal princess and countess of Harewood), British royal (d. 1965)
- 1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1958)
- 1903 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Soviet mathematician (d. 1987)
- 1906 – Frank H. Netter, American painter and medical doctor (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist and news anchor (d. 1965)
- 1909 – William Pereira, Portuguese-American architect (d. 1985)
- 1915 – Mort Weisinger, American magazine and comic book editor (d. 1978)
- 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Sabahattin Kudret Aksal, Turkish poet, storyteller and playwright (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Albert Uderzo, French comics artist and screenwriter (d. 2020)
- 1931 – David Shepherd (artist), English artist and painter (d. 2017)
- 1932 – Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower (d. 1998)
- 1932 – Nikolay Kardashev, Russian astrophysicist and inventor (d. 2019)
- 1934 – Peter McParland, former Northern Ireland international football player and manager
- 1936 – Leonel Sánchez, Chilean football player
- 1937 – Marilyn B. Young, American historian and academic (d. 2017)
- 1939 – Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian football player (d. 2021)
- 1940 - Al Pacino, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
- 1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor (b. 2021)
- 1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish musician and composer
- 1945 – Özdemir Özok, Turkish lawyer (d. 2010)
- 1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician of Jewish origin, turkologist and lawyer (d. 2022)
- 1946 – Talia Shire, American actress
- 1947 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch football player and manager (d. 2016)
- 1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
- 1948 – Péter Andorai, Hungarian actor (d. 2020)
- 1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer and politician
- 1952 – Jacques Santini, French football player and coach
- 1952 – Vladislav Tretyak, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
- 1956 – Dominique Blanc, French actress
- 1959 – Burhan Öçal, Turkish percussionist and actor
- 1960 – Paul Baloff, American singer (d. 2002)
- 1960 – Ramón Vilalta, architect of Catalan origin
- 1963 – David Moyes, Scottish football player and manager
- 1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor and director
- 1965 – Édouard Ferrand, French politician (d. 2018)
- 1965 – John Henson, American animator and puppet master (d. 2014)
- 1966 – Femke Halsema, Dutch politician and mayor of Amsterdam
- 1968 – Thomas Strunz, German football player
- 1968 – İdris Bal, Turkish academic and politician
- 1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- 1970 – Jason Lee, American actor and skateboarder
- 1973 - Charlene Aspen, American former pornographic film actress
- 1976 – Tim Duncan, American professional basketball player
- 1976 – Gilberto Da Silva Melo, Brazilian football player
- 1977 – Marguerite Moreau, American actress
- 1977 – Konstandinos Hristoforu, Greek Cypriot singer
- 1980 – Alejandro Valverde, Spanish road bicycle racer
- 1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula 1 driver
- 1986 – Raïs M'Bolhi, Algerian-French football player
- 1986 – Daniel Andrew Sharman, English actor
- 1987 – Jay Park, American rapper
- 1988 – Laura Lepistö, Finnish figure skater
- 1988 – Sara Paxton, American actress, model and singer
- 1989 – Aysel Teymurzade, Azerbaijani singer
- 1991 – Hüseyin Baş, Turkish politician
- 1991 – Alex Shibutani, American figure skater
- 1991 – Jordan Poyer, American football player
- 1993 – Raphael Varane, French national football player
- 1994 – Kim Byeong-yeon, South Korean football player
- 1994 – Pa Konate, Swedish-Guinean football player
- 1994 – Nikola Radičević, Serbian professional basketball player
- 1995 – Ellen Benediktson, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1995 – Lewis Baker, English football player
- 1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress
- 1996 – Mack Horton, Australian freestyle swimmer
- 1997 - Tsukasa Morishima, Japanese football player
- 1998 – Satou Sabally, Gambian-born German professional basketball player
- 1999 – Olimpiu Moruţan, Romanian professional football player
Deaths
- 1077 – Géza I, 7th King of the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1040)
- 1185 – Antoku, 81st Emperor of Japan (b. 1178)
- 1342 – XII. Benedict, 197th Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1285)
- 1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
- 1566 – Louise Labé, French poet (b. 1524)
- 1644 – Chongzhen, 16th and last Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (b. 1611)
- 1667 – Pedro de Betancur, Spanish Christian saint and missionary (b. 1626)
- 1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
- 1800 – William Cowper, English poet and humanist (b. 1731)
- 1820 – Constantin François de Chassebœuf, French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (b. 1757)
- 1840 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1781)
- 1878 – Anna Sewell, English novelist (b. 1820)
- 1914 – Géza Fejérváry, Hungarian soldier and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1833)
- 1928 – Pyotr Wrangel, Russian soldier (leader of the counter-revolutionary White Army) (b. 1878)
- 1941 – Salih Bozok, Turkish soldier, Atatürk's aide and Deputy (b. 1881)
- 1956 – Paul Renner, German graphic designer and instructor (b. 1878)
- 1972 – George Sanders, English actor (b. 1906)
- 1976 – Sir Carol Reed, English film director and producer (b. 1906)
- 1982 – WR Burnett, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Clifford D. Simak, American author (b. 1904)
- 1990 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1923)
- 1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
- 1996 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer, filmmaker, and Academy Award winner (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (b. 1956)
- 2002 – Lisa Lopes, American singer (b. 1971)
- 2003 – Lynn Chadwick, British sculptor (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian female journalist, author, and activist (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Alan Ball Jr., English former international football player and manager (b. 1945)
- 2009 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Osman Durali, Turkish-Bulgarian wrestler (b. 1939)
- 2011 – Güven Sazak, Turkish businessman and President of Fenerbahçe Sports Club (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Paul L. Smith, American actor, comedian, and voice actor (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Virginia Gibson, American singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Tito Vilanova, Spanish football player and manager (b. 1968)
- 2015 – Dan Fredinburg, American computer scientist and computer engineer (b. 1981)
- 2015 – Otakar Krámský, Czech speedway driver (b. 1959)
- 2016 – Samantha Schubert, Malaysian actress and Beauty Queen (b. 1969)
- 2017 – Philippe Mestre, French politician (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Yelena Rjevskaya, Soviet writer (b. 1919)
- 2017 – Munyua Waiyaki, Kenyan politician and physician (b. 1925)
- 2018 – Şöhret Abbasov, Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1931)
- 2018 – Michael Anderson, British film director (b. 1920)
- 2018 – Abbas Attar, Iranian photographer (b. 1944)
- 2018 – Edith MacArthur, Scottish actress (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Robbert de Graaf, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1991)
- 2019 – John Havlicek, American professional basketball player (b. 1940)
- 2019 – Larry Jenkins, American actor, filmmaker, director, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
- 2019 – Faty Papy, Burundian national football player (b. 1990)
- 2020 – Alan Abel, American musician, educator, and inventor (b. 1928)
- 2020 – India Adams, American singer, dubbing artist and actress (b. 1927)
- 2020 – Erin Babcock, Canadian nurse and politician (b. 1981)
- 2020 – Ricardo Brennand, Brazilian businessman, engineer, and art collector in the state of Pernambuco (b. 1927)
- 2020 – Ricardo Divila, Brazilian motorsport designer (b. 1945)
- 2020 – Henri Kichka, Belgian writer (b. 1926)
- 2020 – Robert Mandell, American-born British conductor (b. 1929)
- 2020 – Gunnar Seijbold, Swedish photographer and musician (b. 1955)
- 2021 – Hamid Casimiyan, Iranian football player (b. 1936)
- 2022 – Beta Berk Bayındır Turkish rap artist (b.1989)
- 2022 – Susan Jacks, Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1948)
- 2022 – Ursula Lehr, German academic, age researcher, and politician (b. 1930)
- 2023 – François Léotard, French politician (b. 1942)
- 2023 – Harry Belafonte, American singer (b. 1927)
Holidays and special occasions
- Carnation Revolution (Portugal)
- World Penguin Day