Thursday April 25, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

April 25: Day of the Week

April 25, 2024 is the 116th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

April 25 Historical Event(s)

1792
La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1915
World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1916
Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
1938
U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1945
The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
1959
The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1966
The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1972
Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1983
American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
2005
107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.

Who were born on April 25?

1843
Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1914
Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1929
Yvette Williams, first woman New Zealander to go to Olympics
1930
Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
1942
Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
1955
Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
1956
Jaroslava Schallerová, Czech actress
1964
Andy Bell, English singer and songwriter (Erasure)
1975
Emily Bergl, British-American actress
1982
Marco Russo, Italian footballer

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