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Red Hat Society members
Daniel Defoe- James D. Watson (requires undeletion)James D. Watson (requires undeletion)
- James D. WatsonJames D. Watson
DNA replicating
The double helix structure of DNA- {{DYK listen|La Marseillaise.ogg|La Marseillaise}}
- The Chongzhen Emperor of Ming Dynasty ChinaThe Chongzhen Emperor of Ming Dynasty China
A guillotine
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Liberation Day in Italy | multiple issues; date not cited |
| Flag Day in the Faroe Islands | refimprove |
| Red Hat Society Day | unreferenced sections |
| ; Freedom Day in Portugal (1974) | see below |
| 1719 – Robinson Crusoe, a novel by English author Daniel Defoe about a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, was first published. | refimprove sections |
| 1829 – Swan River Colony | Save for May 2 |
| 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I decided upon the League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East. | undue weight |
| 1974 – The song "Grândola, Vila Morena" by Zeca Afonso was broadcast on radio, signalling the start of the Carnation Revolution, a bloodless coup against the Estado Novo regime in Portugal. | multiple issues |
| 2005 – A commuter train came off its tracks in Amagasaki, Hyōgo, Japan, and rammed into an apartment building, killing the driver and 106 passengers and injuring 555 others in the Amagasaki rail crash. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1644 – The Ming dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- 1792 – The guillotine was first used to carry out capital punishment in France, with crowds marvelling at the machine's speed and precision.
- 1846 – An open conflict between the military forces of the United States and Mexico began over the disputed border of Texas north of the Rio Grande and south of the Nueces River, later serving as a primary justification for Mexican–American War.
- 1849 – After Lord Elgin, the Governor General of Canada, signed the Rebellion Losses Bill into law to compensate the residents of Lower Canada for losses incurred in Rebellions of 1837, protestors rioted and burned down the Parliament building in Montreal.
- 1898 – The United States retroactively declared war on Spain, stating that a state of war between the two countries had already existed for the past couple of days.
- 1945 – German troops retreated from northern Finland, bringing the Lapland War to a close.
- 1953 – "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids" by molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick was first published in the scientific journal Nature, describing the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
- 1990 – Violeta Chamorro took office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman elected in her own right as a head of state in the Americas.
April 25: Feast day of Mark the Evangelist (Christianity); Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand (1915); Elbe Day in Russia and the United States (1945)
- 1792 – French composer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote "La Marseillaise", now the national anthem of France.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate troops overwhelmed a small Union detachment, leading to Union abandonment of their position in Camden, Arkansas.
- 1915 – First World War: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
- 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586) (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1986 – Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.