This Day in History
25 Apr 1185
Sea battle at Dan-no-ura Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
25 Apr 1507
German cartographer Martin Waldseemller first to use the name America on his world map Universalis Cosmographia
25 Apr 1607
Battle at Gibraltar Dutch fleet beats Spanish Portuguese fleet
25 Apr 1607
Shortly before making landfall in America Captain Edward Maria Wingfield is named President of the Jamestown governing council
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The Flint water crisis begins
On April 25 2014 officials from Flint Michigan switched the citys water supply to the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure for the struggling city. I...
Hubble Space Telescope placed in orbit
The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope a long-term space-based observatory into a low orbit around Earth.The space tel...
Ground broken for Suez Canal
At Port Said Egypt ground is broken for the Suez Canal an artificial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez and connect the Medite...
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov writes letter to U.S. fifth-grader Samantha Smith
On this day in 1983 the Soviet Union releases a letter that Russian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith an American fifth-grader from Manchester Mai...
North Vietnamese Army close to cutting South Vietnam in two
Hanois 320th Division drives 5000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Cent...
President Johnson appoints William Westmoreland to oversee U.S. forces in Vietnam
President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that Gen. William Westmoreland will replace Gen. Paul Harkins as head of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) a...
Maple Leafs win third Stanley Cup in a row
On April 25 1964 the Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the Detroit Red Wings 4-0 and win the National Hockey Leagues Stanley Cup championship four games t...
President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley
President Harry S. Truman officially opens the first White House bowling alley on this day in 1947. The two-lane bowling alley situated in the West Wing had b...
A play lionizing Davy Crockett opens
The play The Lion of the West opens in New York City. It was the first of many plays books and movies celebrating Davy Crockett.Born in 1786 in Tennessee Cro...
Robinson Crusoe is published
Daniel Defoes fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is published. The book about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years o...
Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is born
On April 25 1917 jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News Virginia.She was called The First Lady of Song an honor whose meaning is ...
Movie star Ginger Rogers dies
On this day in 1995 the actress Ginger Rogers best known for the 10 films she made with her dance partner Fred Astaire dies at the age of 83.Born in Missouri...
Air tragedy hits Canary Islands
A Dan-Air Boeing 727 carrying British tourists to the Canary Islands crashes and kills all 146 on board on this day in 1980. This terrible crash came just three...
A father is exonerated after 21 years
James Richardson walks out of a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of killing his seven children. Special prosecutor Janet Reno agreed to ...
Confederates overwhelm Union at Marks’ Mills
For the second time in a week a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden Arkansas. This time the loss forc...
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