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| Feast day of Mark the Evangelist (Christianity); | refimprove section |
| Flag Day in the Faroe Islands | refimprove |
| ; Freedom Day in Portugal (1974) | see below |
| Elbe Day in Russia and the United States (1945) | refimprove |
| 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 section |
| 1792 – French composer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote "La Marseillaise", now the national anthem of France. | refimprove sections |
| 1829 – Swan River Colony | Save for May 2 |
| 1846 – Mexican–American War: Mexican forces defeated American troops over the disputed border of Texas, later serving as the primary justification for the U.S. Congress's declaration of war on Mexico. | single source |
| 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 buildings in Montreal. | refimprove section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate troops overwhelmed a small Union detachment, leading to Union abandonment of their position in Camden, Arkansas. | refimprove section |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1959 – Linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway officially opened to shipping. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1986 – Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove |
| Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand (1915); | Section tagged for balance |
| * 1792 – The French highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by guillotine. | Date not cited in article |
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- 775 – The Abbasid army won a decisive victory over the forces of rebelling Armenian princes at the Battle of Bagrevand.
- 799 – Pope Leo III was attacked by partisans of his predecessor Adrian I, but was rescued and taken to Charlemagne, as described in the epic Karolus magnus et Leo papa.
- 1644 – Ming–Qing transition: The Ming dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allies of World War I passed a resolution allocating League of Nations mandates for the administration of former Ottoman territories in the Middle East.
- 1920 – A march by blind people from across the United Kingdom to protest at poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar Square, London.
- 1932 – Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (dedication pictured).
- 1946 – Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured.
- 1964 – 109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago.
- 1982 – British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the successful recapture of South Georgia from Argentine forces in the Falklands War.
- 1990 – Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
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April 25: Liberation Day in Italy (1945)
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- 1643 – First English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
- 1915 – First World War: The 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 Triton (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.
- 1983 – The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
- 2015 – Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people.
- Naresuan (d. 1605)
- Georg Sverdrup (b. 1770)
- Emmeline B. Wells (d. 1921)