1590 | The Sultan of Morocco launches a successful attack to capture Timbuktu. | |
1644 | The Ming Chongzhen emperor commits suicide by hanging himself. | |
1707 | At the Battle of Almansa, Franco-Spanish forces defeat the Anglo-Portugese forces. | |
1719 | Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London. | |
1792 | The guillotine is first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier. | |
1859 | Work begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt. | |
1862 | Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
1864 | After facing defeat in the Red River Campaign, Union General Nathaniel Bank returns to Alexandria, Louisiana. | |
1867 | Tokyo is opened for foreign trade. | |
1882 | French commander Henri Riviere seizes the citadel of Hanoi in Indochina. | |
1898 | The United States declares war on Spain. | |
1915 | Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. | |
1925 | General Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany. | |
1926 | In Iran, Reza Kahn is crowned Shah and chooses the name "Pehlevi." | |
1926 | Puccini's opera Turandot premiers at La Scala in Milan with Arturo Toscanini conducting. | |
1938 | A seeing eye dog is used for the first time. | |
1945 | U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River. | |
1951 | After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. | |
1953 | The magazine Nature publishes an article by biologists Francis Crick and James Watson, describing the "double helix" of DNA. | |
1956 | Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes to number one on the charts. | |
1959 | The St. Lawrence Seaway–linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes–opens to shipping. | |
1960 | The first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth is completed by a Triton submarine. | |
1962 | A U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon. | |
1971 | The country of Bangladesh is established. | |
1980 | President Jimmy Carter tells the American people about the hostage rescue disaster in Iran. | |
1982 | In accordance with the Camp David agreements, Israel completes a withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula. | |
1990 | Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a six year term as Nicaragua's president. |
What is going on with the East Alton Rotary Club? We will cover it here, along with all sorts of other interesting and off-kilter stuff that will inform, enlighten and amuse you.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
TODAY IN HISTORY
APRIL 25
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