25 April

Notable Births

Dejan Kulusevski

b. 2000

Swedish footballer (born 2000)

Satou Sabally

b. 1998

German-American basketball player (born 1998)

Mack Horton

b. 1996

Australian swimmer

Lewis Baker (footballer)

b. 1995

English footballer (born 1995)

Omar McLeod

b. 1994

Jamaican athletics competitor

Maggie Rogers

b. 1994

American musician (born 1994)

Sam Fender

b. 1994

English singer-songwriter (born 1994)

Alex Bowman

b. 1993

American racing driver (born 1993)

Daniel Norris

b. 1993

American baseball player (born 1993)

Raphaël Varane

b. 1993

French footballer (born 1993)

Jordan Poyer

b. 1991

American football player (born 1991)

Alex Shibutani

b. 1991

American ice dancer (born 1991)

Jean-Éric Vergne

b. 1990

French racing driver (born 1990)

Taylor Walker (footballer)

b. 1990

Australian rules footballer (born 1990)

Marie-Michèle Gagnon

b. 1989

Canadian alpine skier (born 1989)

Michael van Gerwen

b. 1989

Dutch darts player (born 1989)

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

b. 1989

11th Panchen Lama as recognized by the 14th Dalai Lama

Jonathan Bailey

b. 1988

English actor (born 1988)

Sara Paxton

b. 1988

American actress (born 1988)

Ella Fitzgerald

b. 1917

American jazz singer (1917–1996)

Notable Deaths

Marla Adams

d. 2024

American actress (1938–2024)

Laurent Cantet

d. 2024

French director, cinematographer and screenwriter (1961–2024)

Harry Belafonte

d. 2023

American singer and actor (1927–2023)

John Havlicek

d. 2019

American basketball player (1940–2019)

Madeeha Gauhar

d. 2018

Pakistani actress, playwright, theater director and women's rights activist

Tom Lewis (Australian politician)

d. 2016

New South Wales Premier

Jim Fanning

d. 2015

American-Canadian baseball player, manager, and executive (1927–2015)

Matthias Kuhle

d. 2015

German geographer (1948–2015)

Mike Phillips (basketball, born 1956)

d. 2015

American basketball player (1956–2015)

Earl Morrall

d. 2014

American football player (1934–2014)

Dan Heap

d. 2014

Canadian politician and Anglican priest (1925–2014)

Tito Vilanova

d. 2014

Spanish football player and manager (1968–2014)

Stefanie Zweig

d. 2014

20th and 21st-century German writer

György Berencsi

d. 2013

Rick Camp

d. 2013

American baseball player (1953-2013)

Denny Jones

d. 2012

American politician (1910–2012)

Moscelyne Larkin

d. 2012

American ballet dancer

Louis le Brocquy

d. 2012

Irish painter (1916–2012)

George Sanders

d. 1972

British actor and singer (1906–1972)

Anna Sewell

d. 1878

English novelist (1820–1878)

On This Day in History

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2026

Shots are fired outside of the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the Washington Hilton where U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet are attending. One injury is reported and a suspect is taken into custody.

2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

2015

At least 8,962 are killed in Nepal after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.

April 2015 Nepal earthquake

2014

The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination.

Flint water crisis

2007

Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin

2005

The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

Obelisk of Axum

2005

A seven-car commuter train derails and crashes into an apartment building near Amagasaki Station in Japan, killing 107, including the driver.

Amagasaki derailment

2005

Bulgaria and Romania sign the Treaty of Accession 2005 to join the European Union.

Bulgaria

2004

The March for Women's Lives brings over one million protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.

March for Women's Lives (2004)

1990

Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.

Violeta Chamorro

1983

Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

Cold War

1983

Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

Pioneer 10

1982

Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

Israel

1981

More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant

1980

One hundred forty-six people are killed when Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashes near Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Dan-Air Flight 1008

1974

Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime.

Carnation Revolution

1972

Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.

Vietnam War