April 25: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1792 - La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
2. 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.
3. 1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
4. 1916 - Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
5. 1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
6. 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helixstructure of DNA.
7. 1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
8. 1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
9. 2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed two and a half years earlier than expected.
10. 2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
11. Famous Birthdays: Oliver Cromwell (English general and politician), James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer), Felix Klein (German mathematician), Guglielmo Marconi (Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate), Wolfgang Pauli (Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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