We have some interesting facts & historic events all about April 25th, including areas in religion, crime, health and more.
Keep reading for more interesting facts about April 25th in history!
Global Celebrations
- World Malaria Day
- World Penguin Day
- National Hug A Plumber Day
- National DNA Day
Historic Events
1990: Hubble Space Telescope was sent into orbit in 1990.
1974: A bloodless coup ends the dictatorship in Portugal in 1974.
1940: Germany’s Signal magazine photo. Krupp’s heavy railway gun bombards Dover during the summer of 1940.
1917: Petrograd workers getting newspapers, early 1917. The very cheap “Russkoye Slovo” had passed 1,000,000 daily readers.
1794: Daniel Defoe publishes “Robinson Crusoe”, regarded as the 1st English novel in 1794.
Famous Birthdays
- Al Pacino was born.
- Arijit Singh was born.
- Tim Duncan was born.
Heartbreaking Deaths
- Lisa Lopez died.
- Carol Reed died.
- Ginger Rogers died.