Today in history
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| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 1684 | Apr 25 | A patent was granted for the thimble. |
| 1707 | Apr 25 | At the Battle of Almansa, Franco-Spanish forces defeated Anglo-Portuguese. |
| 1848 | Apr 25 | A. Graham discovered asteroid #9: Metis. |
| 1859 | Apr 25 | Ground was broken in Egypt for the Suez Canal. |
| 1864 | Apr 25 | Battle of Marks’ Mill, Arkansas. |
| 1867 | Apr 25 | Tokyo was opened for foreign trade. |
| 1891 | Apr 25 | Pres. Benjamin Harrison visited SF. |
| 1906 | Apr 25 | J.H. Metcalf discovered asteroid #599: Luisa. |
| 1926 | Apr 25 | Puccini’s opera Turandot premiered at La Scala in Milan with Arturo Toscanini conducting. |
| 1937 | Apr 25 | Clem Sohn (26), air show performer, died when his chute failed to open. |
| 1938 | Apr 25 | A seeing eye dog was first used. |
| 1945 | Apr 25 | Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. Charles Easton Rothwell (d.1987) headed the 500-member group that helped establish the UN Charter. |
| 1950 | Apr 25 | Chuck Cooper became the 1st black to play in the NBA. |
| 1952 | Apr 25 | President Juan Peron of Argentina won re-election. |
| 1954 | Apr 25 | Bell Labs in NYC announced the 1st solar battery. |
| 1957 | Apr 25 | The 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated. |
| 1959 | Apr 25 | St. Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opened to shipping. |
| 1960 | Apr 25 | First submerged circumnavigation of the Earth was completed by a Triton submarine. In 1962 Edward Latimer “Ned” Beach (b.19180, Navy captain authored “Around the World Submerged.” |
| 1962 | Apr 25 | U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash landed on the Moon. |
| 1967 | Apr 25 | Britain granted internal self-government to Swaziland. The new Swaziland flag included a black and white shield to depict racial harmony. |
| 1972 | Apr 25 | Hans-Werner Grosse (b.1922), German glider pilot, glided 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12. |
| 1978 | Apr 25 | The US Supreme Court ruled pension plans can’t require women to pay more. |
| 1983 | Apr 25 | “Nightline” expanded from a 1/2 hour to a full hour. The new format proved to be unsuccessful, and after a few months, the old program was restored. |
| 1985 | Apr 25 | Richard Haydn (b.1905), British actor, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. |
| 1987 | Apr 25 | Thousands of people gathered in Washington for three days of protests against U.S. foreign policy, particularly toward Central America and South Africa. |
| 1988 | Apr 25 | “Nightline” went on location to Jerusalem, Israel. |
| 1989 | Apr 25 | Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita announced his resignation in order to take responsibility for his involvement in Japan’s Recruit stock scandal. |
| 1990 | Apr 25 | In the 25th Academy of Country Music Awards Clint Black and Kathy Mattea won. |
| 1991 | Apr 25 | “Secret Garden” opened at St. James Theater in NYC for 709 performances. |
| 1992 | Apr 25 | The Ms. Foundation began its “Take Our Daughters to Work Day.” |
| 1993 | Apr 25 | Hundreds of thousands of gay rights activists and their supporters marched in Washington, D.C., demanding equal rights and freedom from discrimination. |
| 1994 | Apr 25 | Conservative Tsutomu Hata, former foreign minister, became prime minister of Japan, succeeding Morihiro Hosokawa as political infighting continued. |
| 1996 | Apr 25 | Ford Motor Co. announced a recall of about 8 million cars, minivans and pickups because of an ignition switch fire hazard. |
| 1997 | Apr 25 | The Clinton administration extended the area over which the northwest coast silvery Coho salmon is considered a “threatened” species. |
| 1998 | Apr 25 | Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation. |
| 1999 | Apr 25 | On the third and final day of their Washington summit, NATO leaders promised military protection and economic aid to Yugoslavia’s neighbors for standing with the West against Slobodan Milosevic. Pres. Yeltsin called Pres. Clinton to search for a solution to Kosovo. |
| 2000 | Apr 25 | The Ohio state motto, “with God, all things are possible,” was declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court. |
| 2001 | Apr 25 | In unusually blunt terms, President Bush warned China that an attack on Taiwan could provoke a U.S. military response. |
| 2002 | Apr 25 | Pres. Bush met with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who told him bluntly that the US must temper its support of Israel. Abdullah gave Bush an 8-point proposal for Middle East peace. |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | The Pentagon announced that Army Secretary Thomas White, whose tenure as civilian chief of the military’s largest service was marked by tensions with his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was leaving office. |
| 2004 | Apr 25 | Estee Lauder (b.1906), cosmetics pioneer whose pots of potions and tubs of moisturizers have turned the clock back for millions of faces across the globe, died in NYC. |
| 2005 | Apr 25 | President Bush sought relief from record-high gas prices and support for Middle East peace as he opened his Texas ranch to Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. |
| 2006 | Apr 25 | President Bush ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump. He also halted for the summer the purchase of crude oil for the government’s emergency reserve. |
| 2007 | Apr 25 | Brushing off a presidential veto threat, the House passed, 218-208, a $124.2 billion supplemental spending bill ordering US troops to begin coming home from Iraq in the fall of 2007. |
| 2008 | Apr 25 | Wachovia Corp. agreed to pay as much as $144 million to settle an 18-month government investigation into its relationships with telemarketers that allegedly harmed 350,000 to 500,000 consumers. |
| 2009 | Apr 25 | The World Health Organization called an emergency meeting of experts to consider declaring an international public health emergency over the swine flu outbreak believed to have killed dozens of people in Mexico and sickened at least seven in the US. |
| 2010 | Apr 25 | In California Fresno police began a crackdown on gangs after 3 people were killed in separate shootings. By May 10police made some 648 arrests including 216 for felony offenses. |
| 2011 | Apr 25 | In Arkansas powerful storms caused flooding and a tornado that left 10 people dead. |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | US federal officials announced that multiple airport screeners have been arrested for allegedly taking handsome bribes to look the other way while loads of illegal drugs slipped through security at Los Angeles International Airport. |
| 2013 | Apr 25 | The George W. Bush presidential library was dedicated in Dallas, Texas. |
| 2014 | Apr 25 | President Barack Obama wrapped up a state visit to Japan during which he assured America’s ally that Washington would come to its defense, but failed to clinch a trade deal key to both his “pivot” to Asia and PM Shinzo Abe’s economic reforms. |
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