April 25

Today in History
• 1185 - Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
• 1362 - Muhammad VI ruler of Granada killed with a lance personally by Peter I of Castile
• 1449 - Anti-pope Felix V resigns
• 1507 - Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller 1st to use the name America on his world map
• 1607 - Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish Portuguese fleet
• 1684 - Patent granted for thimble
• 1792 - Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
• 1850 - Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Anzac Day
• Freedom Day (Portugal)
• Israel Independence Day
• Memorial Day in Israel
• National Plumbers Day
• Sinai Liberation Day (Egypt)
• The Feast of St Mark (Italy)
• Yom HaAtzmaut

Birthdays
• 1214 - Louis IX (Saint Louis), King of France (1226-70)
• 1228 - Koenraad IV, Roman Catholic German king, 1237-54
• 1284 - Edward II, King of England, 1307-27
• 1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England
• 1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England, 1653-58
• 1769 - Marc Isambard Brunel, French-born English engineer (Thames Tunnel)
• 1825 - Charles Ferdinand Dowd, U.S., standardized time zones
• 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909