Today is
April 25. There are 250 days remaining in 2017.
Today is
ANZAC Day.
Also, today is
DNA Day, as well as
Parental Alienation Awareness Day,
Red Hat Society Day, and
World Malaria Day.
Events
1792 – Highwayman
Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1829 –
Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS
Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the
Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 –
Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the
Mexican–American War.
1847 – The last survivors of the
Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the
Suez Canal.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile
license plates.
1916 –
Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at
ANZAC Cove.
1944 – The
United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1953 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish
"Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of
DNA.
1954 – The first practical
solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1960 – The United States Navy submarine
USS Triton completes the
first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1977 - Elvis Presley made the last recordings of his life during a concert at the Saginaw, Michigan Civic Center. Three songs from the show appeared on the posthumously released Presley album, '
Moody Blue'.
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the
Camp David Accords.
1983 –
Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
2015 –
Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the
death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, 1908 – Edward R. Murrow, 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald,
1923 – Albert King
, 1932 – Meadowlark Lemon (Harlem Globetrotter), 1933 – Jerry Leiber♪ ♫, 1940 – Al Pacino, 1945 – Stu Cook
(CCR), 1946 – Talia Shire (
'Aaaaadrriiiiiaaaaann!!!'), 1964 – Hank Azaria (voices of Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl, and others on
The Simpsons), 1969 – Joe Buck, 1969 – Renée Zellweger, 1970 – Jason Lee
1792 - Nicolas J. Pelletier
, 1919 – Augustus D. Juilliard (yeah,
that Juilliard), 1995 – Art Fleming (Jeopardy!,
"Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should."),
1996 – Saul Bass (graphic designer, Oscar-winner, corporate logo designer), all these logos were designed by Saul Bass:
2002 – Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes♪ ♫(TLC), 2007 – Bobby 'Boris' Pickett♪ ♫, 2009 – Bea Arthur (
Maude, The Golden Girls)