On This Day - April 25th 1792 – La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
On This Day - April 25th 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal which would cover 100 miles and link the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
On This Day - April 25th 1898 – The United States declares war on Spain.
On This Day - April 25th 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
On This Day - April 25th 1916 – Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
On This Day - April 25th 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
On This Day - April 25th 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.
On This Day - April 25th 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
On This Day - April 25th 1990 – The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
On This Day - April 25th 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 took place in Moscow.
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