April 25......

April 25 is the 115th (116th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining in the year on this date. It is also the latest possible day that Easter can occur in the Gregorian calendar.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Culture "No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." — Mahatma Gandhi

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals." — Jerry Falwell

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1185 - Sea battle at Dan-no-ura Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family

● 1449 - Anti-pope Felix V resigns

● 1507 - America got its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first used the term on a world map to refer to the huge mass of land in the Western Hemisphere, in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

● 1530 - The Augsburg Confession was read publicly at the Diet of Worms. Written principally by Philip Melanchthon, the document comprised the first official summary of the Lutheran faith.

● 1541 - Liege flooded after heavy down pour

● 1590 - The Sultan of Morocco launched his successful attack to capture Timbuktu.

● 1604 - Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand

● 1607 - Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.

● 1607 - Battle at Gibraltar Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet

● 1626 - Battle at the Dessauer bridge Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld

● 1644 - The Ming Chongzhen emperor committed suicide by hanging himself.

● 1660 - London Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II

● 1678 - French troops conquer Ypres

● 1684 - Patent granted for the thimble

● 1707 - The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

● 1747 - Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand

● 1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

● 1792 - Birth of John Keble, English clergyman and poet. Credited with having founded the Oxford Movement in 1833, Keble also authored the hymn, "Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear" (1820).

● 1800 - Death of William Cowper, 69, English poet. A lifelong victim of depression, Cowper nevertheless left a great spiritual literary legacy, including three enduring hymns: "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" and "There is a Fountain."

● 1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

● 1831 - The New York and Harlem Railway was incorporated in New York City.

● 1846 - Mexican forces obligingly attacked a U.S. "scouting party" sent by President James K. Polk into disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers in hopes of provoking just such a skirmish. The incident was used by the expansionist Congress as an excuse to start the Mexican-American War, during which the U.S. seized California and the Southwest.

● 1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.

● 1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

● 1850 - Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices

● 1859 - Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.

● 1860 - The first Japanese diplomats to visit a foreign power reached Washington, DC. They remained in the U.S. capital for several weeks while discussing expansion of trade with the United States.

● 1861 - 7th New York arrives to reinforce Washington DC

● 1861 - Battle of Lavaca TX

● 1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Marks' Mills.

● 1864 - After facing defeat in the Red River Campaign, Union General Nathaniel Bank returned to Alexandria, LA.

● 1867 - Tokyo is opened for foreign trade

● 1874 - Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy.

● 1875 - Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")

● 1881 - 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany

● 1881 - French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia

● 1881 - Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.

● 1882 - French commander Henri Riviere seized the citadel of Hanoi in Indochina.

● 1886 - Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna

● 1891 - President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco

● 1896 - Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek CO)

● 1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

● 1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

● 1905 - Whites win right to vote in South Africa

● 1908 - Edward R. Murrow, the influential American radio and television broadcaster during the industry's early years, was born.

● 1915 - The ANZAC spirit tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of World War I.

● 1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.

● 1916 - ANZAC Day commemorated for the first time.

● 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg elected 2nd President of Germany (Adolf Hitler is 3rd)

● 1926 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name Reza Shah Pahlavi.

● 1927 - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco

● 1928 - Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind

● 1929 - The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America was organized in Detroit, partly in response to the insurgence of Communism in Eastern Europe. Previously, its parishes were under jurisdiction of the Patriarchate in Bucharest, Hungary.

● 1933 - US & Canada drop Gold Standard

● 1935 - Fire claimed the second capitol building in Salem, Oregon and burned down.

● 1938 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.

● 1940 - The Faroese flag Merkið is made the official flag for the Faroe Islands.

● 1941 - Operation Merkur Hitler orders conquest of Kreta

● 1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Bath

● 1943 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket was instituted.

● 1944 - The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.

● 1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Russian 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.

● 1945 - The U.S. Army blows the swastika from the top of the Zeppelintribüne.

● 1945 - Nazi occupation army leaves Milan after a partisan insurrection. This day is taken as symbol of the liberation of Italy.

● 1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.

● 1945 - Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission

● 1945 - Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany

● 1945 - Allied air raid on Surabaja Java

● 1945 - British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands

● 1945 - Red army completely surrounds Berlin

● 1946 - "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville IL, killing 48

● 1947 - Trial against WWII mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voûte begins

● 1950 - Ambon proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)

● 1952 - U.S. begins new series of atmospheric nuclear tests, Christmas Islands, South Pacific.

● 1952 - German "Country" Bathe-Württemberg forms

● 1952 - After a three-day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment was annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.

● 1953 - U.S. Senator Wayne Morse ended the longest speech in U.S. Senate history. The speech on the Offshore Oil Bill lasted 22 hours and 26 minutes.

● 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.

● 1954 - Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (New York NY)

● 1954 - British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects are arrested)

● 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

● 1957 - 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated

● 1957 - Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government

● 1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.

● 1960 - 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)

● 1961 - Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin

● 1961 - France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria

● 1961 - Premier Moïse Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo

● 1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

● 1962 - US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon

● 1962 - US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island

● 1966 - Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium

● 1967 - Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland

● 1967 - Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. The law was limited to therapeutic abortions when agreed to, unanimously, by a panel of three physicians.

● 1968 - Eighty Olympic Community College students are arrested in a protest on their campus in Bremerton, Wash., a small town that is home of several major U.S. Navy facilities.

● 1969 - The Rev. Ralph Abernathy and 100 others are arrested while picketing a Charleston, South Carolina hospital to support unionization.

● 1971 - The country of Bangladesh was established.

● 1971 - US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire

● 1971 - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington DC

● 1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 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.

● 1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1974 - Chancellor Willy Brandt Secretary Günther Guillaume found to be a spy

● 1974 - Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government

● 1974 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.

● 1975 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

● 1975 - 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao

● 1975 - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal

● 1975 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

● 1975 - West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden

● 1976 - Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country

● 1976 - Portugal adopts constitution

● 1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1978 - Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more

● 1979 - Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect

● 1980 - Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran

● 1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.

● 1982 - Marines land in South Georgia; Britain re-establishes its presence in the Falkland Islands after a two-hour assault by Royal Marines on the remote island of South Georgia.

● 1982 - Captured in 1967, the Sinai Peninsula was returned by Israel to Egypt, as part of the 1979 Camp David Accords.

● 1982 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1982 - Women lay wreath for all women of all countries raped in war, Canberra, Australia.

● 1983 - One hundred seventy-five women arrested for marching to mourn the rape of women in war, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

● 1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1983 - 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.

● 1983 - The Pioneer 10 spacecraft crossed Pluto's orbit, speeding on its endless voyage through the Milky Way. {Only to be used for target practice by Klingons during the 23rd century.}

● 1984 - In France, over one million people demonstrated to show they favored the decentralization of education.

● 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1985 - West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust

● 1986 - Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.

● 1986 - ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5

● 1987 - In Washington, DC, 100,000 people protested the U.S. policy in Central America.

● 1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-211

● 1988 - In Israel, John "Ivan the Terrible" Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

● 1989 - James Richardson is freed from a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children.

● 1990 - Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

● 1990 - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's President, ending 11 years of Sandinista rule.

● 1992 - Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government. {At the time, before the demonization of Islam, this was thought to be a good thing.}

● 1993 - Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader

● 1993 - Over one million join march in Washington, D.C. for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights. (The bi and trans planks, object of much controversy among organizers, are still derided at times from the stage).

● 1994 - 14" of snow in Southern California

● 1994 - Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed

● 1994 - Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed

● 1994 - King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns

● 1994 - Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnapped

● 1994 - Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan

● 1996 - The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.

● 1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned by Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.

● 2002 - Brothers cleared of Damilola murder; Two teenage brothers are cleared of the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor.

● 2003 - Georgia lawmakers voted to scrap the Dixie cross from the state's flag.

● 2003 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to four years in prison for her conviction on fraud and theft charges. She was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft of money from a women's political league.

● 2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

● 2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union.

● 2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.

BIRTHS

● 32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)

● 1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)

● 1228 - Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)

● 1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)

● 1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)

● 1502 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)

● 1545 - Yi Sun Shin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)

● 1599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)

● 1608 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)

● 1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)

● 1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)

● 1710 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)

● 1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)

● 1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)

● 1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)

● 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)

● 1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)

● 1853 - John Frank Stevens, American chief civil engineer of the Panama Canal (1905-7) (d. 1943)

● 1873 - Howard Garis, American creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories (d. 1962)

● 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)

● 1898 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)

● 1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

● 1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)

● 1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)

● 1906 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1956-90) (d. 1997)

● 1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)

● 1909 - William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)

● 1914 - Claude Mauriac, French novelist, journalist and critic (d. 1996)

● 1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)

● 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)

● 1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)

● 1921 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)

● 1923 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)

● 1925 - Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)

● 1925 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist

● 1930 - Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer

● 1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)

● 1932 - William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)

● 1932 - Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)

● 1933 - Jerry Leiber, American composer

● 1934 - Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer

● 1935 - April Ashley, English model

● 1939 - Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate

● 1940 - Al Pacino, American actor

● 1942 - Jon Kyl, U.S. senator, R-AZ {If ever elected president would be as crazy as Bush.}

● 1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)

● 1945 - Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

● 1946 - Talia Shire, American actress ("Rocky" and "Godfather" movies) and director ("Lost in Translation")

● 1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician

● 1947 - Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer

● 1947 - Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor ("The Green Mile")

● 1949 - Michael Brown, Rock musician (The Left Banke)

● 1949 - Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer

● 1950 - Steve Ferrone, British drummer (The Heartbreakers)

● 1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist

● 1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player

● 1954 - Rob Crosby, Country singer, songwriter

● 1958 - Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion)

● 1960 - Bruce Redman, Australian film producer

● 1964 - Hank Azaria, American actor

● 1964 - Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (Erasure)

● 1964 - Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director

● 1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction)

● 1966 - James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer

● 1967 - Jane Clayson, TV host

● 1969 - Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster

● 1969 - Gina Torres, American actress

● 1969 - Darren Woodson, American football player

● 1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress

● 1970 - Jason Lee, American actor ("My Name is Earl")

● 1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer (TLC)

● 1970 - Jason Wiles, Actor ("Third Watch")

● 1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)

● 1975 - Emily Bergl, English-American actress

● 1976 - Tim Duncan, American basketball player

● 1976 - Rainer Schuettler, German tennis player

● 1976 - Gilberto, Brazilian footballer

● 1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer

● 1977 - Marguerite Moreau, American actress

● 1977 - Matthew West, American Christian singer

● 1977 - Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer

● 1978 - Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model

● 1980 - Jacob Underwood, Singer

● 1980 - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist

● 1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver

● 1981 - Anja Pärson, Swedish skier

● 1982 - Monty Panesar, English cricketer

● 1983 - DeAngelo Williams, American football player

● 1984 - Andre' Woodson, American football quarterback

● 1985 - Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver

● 1988 - Sara Paxton, American actress

● 1988 - Erik Stonitsch

● 1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama

● 1989 - Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player

● 1992 - Brett German

● 1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress

DEATHS

● 1185 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)

● 1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader

● 1295 - King Sancho IV of Castile

● 1472 - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)

● 1516 - John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)

● 1566 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)

● 1566 - Louise Labé, French poet

● 1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)

● 1605 - Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)

● 1644 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)

● 1660 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)

● 1690 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)

● 1740 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, an outstanding General and Peshwa (b.1699)

● 1744 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)

● 1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)

● 1800 - William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)

● 1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)

● 1843 - Edward Drummond, British civil servant

● 1878 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)

● 1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)

● 1915 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)

● 1928 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)

● 1937 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b.1857)

● 1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)

● 1944 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)

● 1968 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)

● 1972 - George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)

● 1976 - Carol Reed, British film producer and director (b. 1906)

● 1980 - Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)

● 1982 - John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)

● 1990 - Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)

● 1995 - Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)

● 1995 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)

● 1996 - Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)

● 1998 - Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)

● 1999 - Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)

● 2000 - David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)

● 2000 - Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)

● 2001 - Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)

● 2002 - Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)

● 2002 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)

● 2003 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)

● 2004 - Thom Gunn, British poet (b. 1929)

● 2005 - Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)

● 2006 - Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Commemoration of the Greater Litanies
● St. Anianus
● St. Erminus
● St. Evodius
● St.Filo
● St. Macaille
● St. Macedonius
● St. Mark the Evangelist
● St. Mella
● St. Phaebadius
● St. Philo and Agathopodes
● St. Robert of Syracuse
● Bl. Robert Anderton
● Bl. William Marsden

● Easter Sunday - 1886, 1943, 2038. In the Gregorian calendar 25th April is the latest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (22nd March is the earliest).

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 12 (Civil Date: April 25)
● St. Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium.
● Virgin Anthusa of Constantinople.
● St. Athanasia, abbess of Aegina.
● Martyrs Menas, David, and John of Palestine.
● St. Isaac the Syrian, abbot of Spoleto.
● Hieromartyr Zeno, Bishop of Verona.
● New-Martyr Acacius of Kapsokalyvia Skete on Mt. Athos.
● St. Basil, Bishop of Ryazan.

● Greek Calendar:
● Deposition of the Belt of the Most Holy Mother of God in Constantinople.
● Martyrs Demas, Protion, and those with them.

● Anglican, Lutheran:
● St. Mark the Evangelist

● Roman Empire - Robigalia in honor of Robigus; god of mildew asked not to harm.

● Buddhist-Laos : Buddhist Holiday

● Carnation Revolution commemorated in Portugal (1974) (National Holiday).

● Festa della Liberazione, (Italy), annual commemoration to mark the liberation of Italy at the end of the Second World War.

● Sinai Liberation Day, (Egypt), Celebrates the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai peninsula.

● Faroe Islands - National Flag Day.

● Swaziland - National Flag Day.

● Rastafari movement - Celebration of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica.

● Official Red Hat Society day.

● Official Administrators day.

● Australia, Nauru, New Zealand, Solomon Is, Tonga, W Samoa : ANZAC Day (1915)

● Azores : Portugal's Day (1974)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Alabama, Florida, Mississippi: Confederate Memorial Day (1868) - (Monday)
● US-Utah: Arbor Day-plant a tree (1872) - (Friday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

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