Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sun Apr 25 2021 12:05 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/25/1214 Louis IX, King of France (1226-70)
04/25/1284 Edward II, King of England (1307-27)
04/25/1567 Aurelio Signoretti, composer
04/25/1599 Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
04/25/1614 Hieronymus van Beverningk, chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas
04/25/1614 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer
04/25/1666 Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer
04/25/1690 Gottlieb Muffat, composer
04/25/1710 James Ferguson, astronomer
04/25/1723 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
04/25/1730 Fedele Fenaroli, composer
04/25/1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor
04/25/1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
04/25/1818 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
04/25/1824 Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter
04/25/1825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd, US, standardized time zones
04/25/1837 William Charles Levey, composer
04/25/1840 James Dearing, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
04/25/1840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture) (5/7 NS)
04/25/1841 Pauline Lucca, soprano
04/25/1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
04/25/1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium)
04/25/1862 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affair
04/25/1867 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist
04/25/1869 Karl Prohaska, composer
04/25/1871 Sara Amsel, Indonesian/Dutch actress
04/25/1872 Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/writer
04/25/1873 Walter De la Mare, English poet/anthologist (Behold the Dreamer)
04/25/1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio) (Nobel 1909)
04/25/1876 Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
04/25/1881 Hans Windisch, German new testament expert
04/25/1883 Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show)
04/25/1895 Stanley Rous, British soccer official
04/25/1897 Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer
04/25/1897 VAA Mary, English princess
04/25/1900 Lord Gladwyn, British Liberal
04/25/1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945)
04/25/1901 Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer
04/25/1903 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
04/25/1906 William J Brennan Jr, Newark NJ, 92nd Supreme Court justice (1956-90
04/25/1906 Zoltan Gardonyi, composer
04/25/1907 Paula Trueman, NYC, actress (Gran-Billy)
04/25/1907 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
04/25/1908 Edward R Murrow, Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person)
04/25/1909 Jaroslav Doubrava, composer
04/25/1912 Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis
04/25/1913 Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)
04/25/1913 Russ Conway, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye)
04/25/1914 Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela
04/25/1915 Aja Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
04/25/1918 Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)
04/25/1918 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (Is it live or is it Memorex)
04/25/1919 Heinz Wunderlich, composer
04/25/1920 Marre, reformer of the bar
04/25/1921 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet
04/25/1923 Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitar (Bad Look Blues)
04/25/1923 Anita Bjorak, actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People)
04/25/1923 Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer
04/25/1923 Melissa Hayden, Toronto Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl)
04/25/1924 Erzsebet Szonyi, composer
04/25/1924 Franco Mannino, composer
04/25/1925 Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist
04/25/1926 Paul Walter Furst, composer
04/25/1927 Ernst Widmer, composer
04/25/1929 Yvette Corlett, athlete
04/25/1929 Yvette Williams, NZ, long jumper (Oly-gold-52)
04/25/1930 Dotty Mack, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Paul Dixon Show)
04/25/1930 Paul Mazursky, US, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson)
04/25/1931 David Shepherd, painter
04/25/1932 Lia Manoliu, Romania, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1968)
04/25/1932 Meadowlark Lemon, basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter) (or 0421)
04/25/1932 William Roache, England, actor (Ken Barlow-Coronation Street)
04/25/1933 Helen Paling, British circuit judge
04/25/1934 David de Peyer, cancer research campaigner
04/25/1934 Denny 'Scott' Miller, Bloomington Ind, actor (Wagon Train)
04/25/1937 Bo Brundin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange)
04/25/1937 Thomas Faber, publisher
04/25/1939 Lord Lichfield, British photographer
04/25/1939 Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat
04/25/1940 Al Pacino, NYC, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio)
04/25/1940 Marian Norrie
04/25/1940 OB McClinton, [Burnett], country singer (Keep your arms around me)
04/25/1941 Chris Augustine, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
04/25/1941 Lawrence J Smith, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
04/25/1942 John Martin Dalby, composer
04/25/1942 Jon Kyl, (Rep-R-Arizona)
04/25/1944 John Bryant, editor (Europeans)
04/25/1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus, rock vocalist/guitarist (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen
04/25/1945 Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
04/25/1945 Walt Wesley, NBA star (Cleve Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, LA Lakers)
04/25/1946 ... Zhirinovsky [Edelstein), Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite
04/25/1946 Digby Fairweather, jazz trumpeter
04/25/1946 Peter Sutherland, CEO (Allied Irish Banks)
04/25/1946 Talia Shire, [Coppola], Lake Success NY, actress (Adrienne-Rocky)
04/25/1947 Bill Fontana, composer
04/25/1947 Jeffrey DeMunn, actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City, Sessions)
04/25/1947 Johan Cruyff, soccer manager
04/25/1949 Michael Brown, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
04/25/1950 Steve Ferrone, drummer (Average White Band)
04/25/1951 Ian McCartney, MP
04/25/1951 Linda Stone, pharmacist
04/25/1954 Rob Crosby, Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural)
04/25/1955 Buster Mottram, tennis player
04/25/1955 John Nunn, British chess player
04/25/1957 Eric Bristow, England, dart thrower (5 World Masters titles)
04/25/1958 Fish, [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist (Marillion-Sugar Mice)
04/25/1964 Andy Bell, rocker (Erasure-Oh L'Amour)
04/25/1966 Isabelle Pasco, France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue)
04/25/1967 Cameo, XXX actress (Patriot Dames, Suburban Buttnicks, Women in Need
04/25/1975 Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
04/25/1985 Jonathan Halyalkar, Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who's the Boss)
Deaths:
04/25/ 974 Ratherius Van Verona/Luik, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84
04/25/1295 Sancho IV, the brave, leader/king of Castili�/Le�n, dies
04/25/1342 Benedict XII, [Jacques Fournier], Pope (1334-42), dies
04/25/1472 Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies
04/25/1482 Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI), dies
04/25/1566 Diane de Poitiers, of French King Henry II, dies
04/25/1595 Torquato Tasso, poet, dies
04/25/1607 Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle
04/25/1607 Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle
04/25/1635 Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (La secchia rapita), dies
04/25/1647 Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62
04/25/1663 Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53
04/25/1690 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79
04/25/1728 John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies
04/25/1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies
04/25/1792 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54
04/25/1792 Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined
04/25/1800 William Cowper, poet, dies
04/25/1808 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 67
04/25/1828 John Goldberg, patriot/statesman, dies at 64
04/25/1840 Sim�on-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies
04/25/1845 Thomas Duncan, painter, dies
04/25/1853 William Beaumont, physiologist, dies
04/25/1882 Johann CF Z�llner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies
04/25/1905 Jacob Olie, photographer, dies
04/25/1906 John Knowles Paine, composer, dies at 67
04/25/1915 Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72
04/25/1925 George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81
04/25/1926 Ellen Key, Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies
04/25/1928 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies
04/25/1937 Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to ope
04/25/1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies
04/25/1951 Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47
04/25/1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies
04/25/1955 Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
04/25/1955 Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies
04/25/1960 Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67
04/25/1960 Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
04/25/1960 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92
04/25/1966 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author, dies at 70
04/25/1969 Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80
04/25/1970 Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at 53
04/25/1971 Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80
04/25/1972 George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65
04/25/1976 Carol Reed, director (Agony & Ecstasy), dies
04/25/1976 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
04/25/1981 Dixie, a mouse who lived 6� years
04/25/1982 Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happhy Breed), dies at 73
04/25/1982 Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
04/25/1982 John Cody, US cardinal/archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74
04/25/1982 Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies
04/25/1982 William R Burnett, US, writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82
04/25/1984 Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack
04/25/1985 Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
04/25/1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80
04/25/1988 Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76
04/25/1988 Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43
04/25/1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at
04/25/1989 George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85
04/25/1990 Dexter Gordon, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 67 in Philadelphia
04/25/1991 Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies
04/25/1991 Theo Laseroms, [Tank], soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
04/25/1992 Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39
04/25/1992 Dany [Dani�l S] Tuijnman, Dutch min of traffic & water, dies at 77
04/25/1992 Panos Christi, entertainer, dies
04/25/1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema
04/25/1993 Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies
04/25/1994 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
04/25/1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant moslem leader, shot dead at 32
Significant Events:
04/25/ 404 Army of Sparta conquerors Athens
04/25/1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Joritomo beats Taira-family
04/25/1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns
04/25/1541 -26) Luik flooded after heavy down pour
04/25/1604 Earl Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
04/25/1607 Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet
04/25/1614 Amsterdam Bank of Loan established
04/25/1660 Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
04/25/1678 French troops conquer Ieper
04/25/1684 Patent granted for thimble
04/25/1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese
04/25/1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
04/25/1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
04/25/1848 A Graham discovers asteroid #9 Metis
04/25/1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
04/25/1861 7th NY arrives to reinforce Washington, DC
04/25/1861 Battle of Lavaca, TX
04/25/1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, La
04/25/1862 Battle of New Orleans LA - captured by US Admiral Farragut
04/25/1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
04/25/1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
04/25/1875 Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3')
04/25/1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
04/25/1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
04/25/1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
04/25/1890 J Palisa discovers asteroids #291 Alice & #292 Ludovica
04/25/1891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
04/25/1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
04/25/1898 US declares war on Spain
04/25/1901 Erve Beck hit 1st home run in American League
04/25/1905 Whites win suffrage in South-Africa
04/25/1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #599 Luisa
04/25/1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
04/25/1925 Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany
04/25/1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowned himself Shah Palawi
04/25/1926 Puccini's opera 'Turandot' 1st performed
04/25/1927 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
04/25/1933 NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
04/25/1933 US & Canada drop Gold Standard
04/25/1938 1st use of seeing eye dog
04/25/1945 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF
04/25/1945 British troops reach Grebbelinie
04/25/1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmissi
04/25/1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
04/25/1945 Red army completely surrounding Berlin
04/25/1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
04/25/1946 'Exposition Flyer' rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48
04/25/1946 45 die in a train crash in Naperville Illinois
04/25/1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling cham
04/25/1949 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1922 Zulu
04/25/1949 Michael Brown, rocker (Left Banke-Don't Walk Away Renee)
04/25/1950 Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
04/25/1950 Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
04/25/1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
04/25/1952 German 'Country' Bathe-W�rttemberg forms
04/25/1952 Minneapolis beats New York, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship
04/25/1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC)
04/25/1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya
04/25/1954 WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
04/25/1956 Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel' goes #1
04/25/1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
04/25/1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian govt
04/25/1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
04/25/1959 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
04/25/1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
04/25/1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
04/25/1961 Premier Mo�se Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
04/25/1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
04/25/1961 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
04/25/1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
04/25/1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
04/25/1964 Tor Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
04/25/1965 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship
04/25/1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
04/25/1967 Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland
04/25/1969 BBC Radio serial 'Dales' 5,400th & last episode
04/25/1970 Freda Payne releases 'Band of Gold'
04/25/1970 Melanie releases 'Lay Down'
04/25/1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
04/25/1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
04/25/1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect G�nther Guillaume found to be a spy
04/25/1974 Dictator Ant�nio Salazar overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolutio
04/25/1974 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium govt
04/25/1974 NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
04/25/1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
04/25/1975 Portugal holds its 1st free election in 50 years
04/25/1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
04/25/1976 Portugal adopts constitution
04/25/1977 Cin Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Braves 23-9
04/25/1978 Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
04/25/1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
04/25/1979 'Rock 'n Roll High Schools' premieres
04/25/1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2656 Evenkia & #3653
04/25/1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
04/25/1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
04/25/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2688 Halley, #3275 Oberndorfer & #3692
04/25/1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl
04/25/1983 'Nightline' expands from � hour to a full hour
04/25/1983 Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election
04/25/1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR
04/25/1984 Rock group Wings disbands
04/25/1985 Flyers 2-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
04/25/1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
04/25/1985 West German Parliament makes it punishable to deny the holocaust
04/25/1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
04/25/1988 'Nightline' goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
04/25/1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem
04/25/1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211
04/25/1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
04/25/1989 Penguin Mario Lemuix ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st perio
04/25/1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards (Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win
04/25/1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle discovery
04/25/1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres
04/25/1991 Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
04/25/1991 Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
04/25/1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
04/25/1994 14' of snow in Southern Calif
04/25/1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
04/25/1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
04/25/1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
04/25/1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
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