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Monday, April 25, 2016

Today in History

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 David 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 Khan is crowned Shah and chooses the name “Pahlavi.”
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.

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