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On This Day:
Saturday April 25, 2009
This is the 115th day of the year, with 250 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: ANZAC
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and it is an
abbreviation made famous during World War I in the Gallipoli (or Dardanelles)
Expedition in 1915 in which combined Allied naval and military forces tried to
capture the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey so that a route would be opened to
Russia. ANZAC, with a reputation of being elite troops, took much of the brunt
of the battle, which lasted nine months and which was ultimately lost to the
Turkish-German military.
Holidays
Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga: ANZAC Day (ANZAC was (Australia and
New Zealand Army Corps).
Feast day of St. Mark the Evangelist, St. Heribald, and St. Anianus of
Alexandria.
Italy: Liberation Day (1945).
Portugal: Revolution Day / Liberty Day (1974).
Egypt: Sinai Day (1982).
Swaziland: National Flag Day.
Arbor Day: Usually celebrated the last Friday in April, but may be
celebrated locally on a different date.
Events
1792 - The guillotine was first used in Paris.
1859 - Ground was broken at Port Said, Egypt, for the Suez Canal.
1898 - The United States declared war on Spain.
1901 - New York became the first state to require automobile license
plates; the fee was one dollar.
1915 - In World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at
Gallipoli in Turkey.
1928 - The first guide dog, Buddy, was presented to Morris S. Frank.
1945 - Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize
the United Nations.
1953 - The magazine "Nature" published an article by biologists Francis
Crick and James Watson, describing the "double helix" of DNA.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth
II and President Dwight Eisenhower, linking the Atlantic Ocean with ports on
the Great Lakes.
1967 - The first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. was signed by the
Colorado governor.
1990 - The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery placed the Hubble
Space Telescope, a long-term space-based observatory, into a low orbit around
Earth.
2003 - Georgia lawmakers voted to remove the Dixie cross from the state's
flag.
2005 - Bulgaria and Romania gain entrance into the European Union.
2005 - In Japan, one hundred seven perish in the Amagasaki rail crash.
Births
1214 - Louis IX, king of France (1226-1270).
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Puritan leader in the English Civil War.
1840 - Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer.
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of radio.
1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American war correspondent, newsman.
1918 - Ella Fitzgerald, American Grammy Award-winning jazz singer.
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor.
1964 - Hank Azaria, American actor, comedian, and voice artist.
1969 - Renée Zellweger, American film actress.
1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver.
Deaths
1995 - Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath), American actress,
dancer, and singer.
2005 - Swami Ranganathananda (born Shankaran Kutty), Indian monk.
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