It happened today, the almanac of the day: the historical and political facts, who was born and who left us
Historical events
387 – Saint Augustine and his son Adeodato receive baptism from Saint Ambrose
1267 – Solemn consecration of the Cathedral of Monreale
1327 – Peace is signed between the Republic of Pisa and the Kingdom of Aragon
1507 – The cartographer Martin Waldseemüller uses the name America for the first time to indicate the new continent on a map of the world. The name derives from the Latin version of the navigator Amerigo Vespucci (Americus Vespucius).
1707 – The Bourbon army of Philip V of Spain defeats the army of Charles VI of Habsburg in the Battle of Almansa (Spain) and the Kingdom of Valencia is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
1719 – Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe is published in England
1792 – France: Nicolas J. Pelletier is the first person executed using the guillotine
1831 – New York: premiere of The Lion of the West, a comedy dedicated to the popular hero Davy Crockett
1846 – Start of the Mexican-American War
1859 – Work begins on the creation of the Suez Canal
1900 – During the polar expedition organized by the Duke of Abruzzi, the team led by Umberto Cagni reaches the maximum northern latitude (86° 34′), establishing an absolute record for the time
1916 – Australia and New Zealand – ANZAC Day is celebrated for the first time in memory of those killed at Gallipoli
Ireland – Easter Rising: United Kingdom declares martial law (will last until April 29, i.e. until the end of the riot)
1926 – Reza Kahn is crowned Shah of Iran as Reza Khan Pahlavi
World premiere of the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
1932 – The Korean People’s Army is officially founded
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World War II: American and Soviet troops meet near Torgau, on the Elbe River, dividing Germany in two
USA: Fifty states found the United Nations (UN) in San Francisco (California)
1953 – The article A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by James Dewey Watson (ornithologist) and Francis Harry Compton Crick (physicist) appears in the journal Nature, which describes the helical structure of DNA, for which they will receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine
1959 – First known case of AIDS (the official start of the epidemic was set as June 5, 1981)
1961 – Robert Noyce receives the first patent for an integrated circuit
1969 – Two attacks in Milan which cause 20 injuries: they are the first attacks of the Years of Lead
1974 – Portugal: the MFA (Movimento das Forças Armadas) composed of officers and troops from the various corps of the armed forces, militarily occupies Lisbon and other Portuguese cities, giving rise to the bloodless coup d’état known as the Carnation Revolution, which puts an end to the regime dictatorial of Marcelo Caetano
1981 – Japan: More than one hundred workers are exposed to radiation while repairing a fault at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant.
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula following the Camp David Accords
1983 – Pioneer 10 crosses the orbit of the planet Pluto
1988 – Israel: John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed during World War II. Known as Ivan the Terrible, he was a guard at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland
2000 – Korado Korlević discovers asteroid n.30237 (provisional name “HY1”)
2005 – The last part of the Axum Stele returns from Rome to Ethiopia
2015 – In Nepal a 7.8 magnitude earthquake causes almost 8,700 victims
Parties and anniversaries
International:
World Malaria Day
International Day for Awareness of Parental Alienation
Nationals:
Australia – ANZAC Day
North Korea – Foundation of the National Army
Egypt – Sinai Liberation Day
Faroe Islands – National Flag Day
Germany – Tree Day
Italy – Anniversary of the liberation of Italy
New Zealand – ANZAC Day
Portugal – Freedom Day (Dia da Liberdade)
Swaziland – National Flag Day
Saints today April 15th
Saint Anianus of Alexandria, bishop
Saint Clarentius of Vienne, bishop
Saint Hermione of Lobbes, bishop and abbot
Saint Febadius of Agen, bishop
Saint Franca da Vitalta, abbess
Saint John the Baptist Piamarta, priest and founder
Saint Hunna, widow in Alsace
Saint Mark the Evangelist
Saint Olive martyr
Saints Pasicrates and Valentius, martyrs
San Pedro de San José de Bethencourt, founder of the Order of the Brothers of Bethlehem
Blessed Boniface of Valperga, bishop
Blessed Giuseppe Trinità Rangel Montano and two companions, martyrs
Blessed Mario Borzaga, priest and martyr
Blessed Paolo Thoj Xyooj, catechist and martyr
Blessed Robert Anderton and William Marsden, martyrs
Born today April 25th
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi
1940 – Al Pacino
Deaths today April 25th
1595 – Torquato Tasso
1995 – Ginger Rogers
